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Those who advocate servicing part of the outstanding debt payments now claim that this would show that Puerto Rico is willing to pay, which in turn would inspire confidence on the part of creditors and investors.
But that is merely an alibi that allows the French to claim that they have nothing against reform in principle, but that the reforms being proposed are riddled with injustice.
But none of Obama’s predecessors achieved any of these goals, either, whereas he can claim credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden and more than half of al-Qaeda’s top leadership.
The problem with China’s position is that the UN resolution was aimed at ensuring precisely the outcome that Chinese leaders claim to seek.
Every user, in principle, has a legitimate claim to being a de facto shareholder.
Such foreign-policy decadence threatens to undermine the EU’s claim to be a community of values, not just a glorified customs union.
Stealth laws that claim to defend local values, religion, or the traditional family have nothing to do with protecting society from scary, immoral gays; they have everything to do with protecting scary, immoral oligarchs from society.
It does not offer an alternative view of the modern world other than the implicit claim that modernity is neither necessary nor desirable.
Moreover, that claim, when made by men who appear to be religious leaders, is almost certainly dishonest.
Coming in the midst of so much human suffering, it was a bold claim.
Instead of allowing donors to claim individual compensation for their tissue, a tax would be imposed every time a tissue-based application actually yields a profit.
This makes a mockery of its claim to champion the eurozone as a rules-based club.
China’s March trade deficit indicates, first of all, that it is incorrect to claim that Chinese economic growth depends mainly on exports.
Such a claim would cover four disputed sets of land features: the Paracel Islands in the northwest, claimed by Vietnam as well; the Macclesfield Bank and Scarborough Reef in the north, also claimed by the Philippines; and the Spratly Islands in the south (variously claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei, in some cases against each other as well as against China.)
This is partly because, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which all of these countries have ratified, these outcroppings’ sovereign owners can claim a full 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (enabling sole exploitation of fisheries and oil resources) if they can sustain an economic life of their own.
Otherwise, sovereign owners can claim only 12 nautical miles of territorial waters.
What has heightened ASEAN’s concern about Beijing’s intentions is that even if China could reasonably claim sovereignty over all of the land features in the South China Sea, and all of them were habitable, the Exclusive Economic Zones that went with them would not include anything like all of the waters within the dashed-line of its 2009 map.
This has provoked fears, not unfounded, that China is not prepared to act within the constraints set by the Law of the Sea Convention, and is determined to make some broader history-based claim.
Her decision to form an alliance of convenience with Pakistan’s unpopular military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, continues to undermine her claim to be a restorer of democracy and champion of the street.
A system without elections cannot claim to be a democracy.
And to claim that something as diverse, and sometimes vague, as a religious faith can be pinned to a fixed ideological position, because of certain ancient texts, is utterly misleading.
Equity and a claim on some share of profits, however, would bypass the problem completely.
The news wasn’t good: Resistant infections already claim more than 700,000 lives a year.
They argue that they have reined in their fishing fleet to avoid incidents with the Vietnamese, only to see Vietnamese fishermen aggressively claim the relinquished waters.
Al Qaeda, inextricably entwined with the Taliban, would also claim victory if America had signaled a retreat.
China’s willingness to arm and defend African dictators, even in the teeth of UN sanctions, as in Libya, undermines its claim to a “peaceful rise.”
Besides, which country can claim to be following its pure "traditional culture"?
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, perhaps the country's most credible human rights body, argues that while "the violence now deeply embedded in society is to be rooted out over the coming years," that task "presents bigger challenges than merely picking up, detaining, and torturing those who authorities claim are militants."
Perhaps only a miracle: real progress in the Israel-Palestine conflict, which both the US and the Europeans could then claim to have helped bring about.
The conjurer thus resorts to the rosy scenario: since he cannot find enough tax loopholes to eliminate, he must claim that what he meant by closing the revenue gap was that stronger economic growth will bring in the additional revenue.
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