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Agricultural protectionists, through the language of food security and food self-sufficiency, claim that the same holds true for food.
Many bitumen companies claim that they already abide by such safeguards; but environmentalists’ skepticism is justified.
That claim does not withstand scrutiny.
But there is little doubt that security has a powerful claim on people’s wellbeing and thus on resource allocation.
The novelty of Summers’s argument is the claim that “secular stagnation” began 15-20 years before the crash.
In Finland, to take another example, it is the claim of uniquely authentic representation, not criticism of the European Union, that makes the revealingly named True Finns a populist party.
Likewise, the Italian populist Beppe Grillo’s attempt to empower ordinary citizens is not a cause for concern; but his claim that his Five Star Movement deserves nothing less than 100% of seats in parliament, because all other contenders are corrupt and immoral, certainly is.
The DDT scare started with Carson's claim that its use had devastating effects on bird life.
Apologists also claim that nepotism is universal, citing examples of children of American politicians and business leaders who have graduated from Ivy League universities and secured coveted private-sector jobs.
In the United States, President George W. Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security cited Siegel for its claim that the government should encourage people to invest in stocks.
If only those member states who claim to be the UN’s biggest supporters put their money where their mouths are.
After all, when the walls had come down all over Eastern Europe in 1989 and 1990 this Alliance of Western Europe and North America had seemed victorious and, when the Soviet Union fell apart a year later, could proudly claim to be the only functioning multilateral security organization on the continent.
But when the Balkan War presented the first test for proving the claim, NATO showed all the determination and muscle of a paper tiger.
That claim, as well as Hassett’s recent attacks on the TPC, made former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers angrier than I can ever recall having seen him with respect to a public-policy issue.
The British economist Nicholas Stern went so far as to claim that his colleagues had become the slaves of defunct politicians.
Kenyans should be proud of what they have accomplished in a year that has also seen the election of a man they claim as their own, Barack Obama, as America’s president.
Pessimists will claim that behaviors are hard to change, especially when doing so depends on explaining the science of germs to uneducated audiences.
Nor is Iceland a poster child for the claim that avoiding austerity works.
But, though Simone de Beauvoir’s claim in The Second Sex that “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” may be true, biology and evolutionary psychology are still relevant.
Everyone could claim victory, and no one was obliged to acknowledge defeat.
This leaves only accommodation – which means effectively granting legitimacy to the Kremlin's claim to authority over Ukraine and, presumably, the rest of its “near abroad."
Journalists who claim otherwise are not a representative sample, even in Western countries.
The market has, they claim, already “priced in” such a rupture.
They feel that they cannot claim to be out of tools.
Spicer’s claim that “We’re going to get this done” echoes Merkel’s famous mantra in defense of her policy to welcome Syrian refugees: Wir schaffen das “We can do it”).
But how he deals with the Islamic Fundamentalists in Benghazi, Al-Bayda, Delna and other areas who claim that their contribution to the victory requires them to have a powerful say in the new order will go a long way toward determining Libya’s future.
But their challenge is made more difficult by nay-sayers who claim that fears about declining biodiversity are a tree-huggers' conspiracy to elevate Nature above people.
Indeed, as the eminent historian Wang Gungwu has pointed out, the first maps to claim the South China Sea were Japanese, and were inherited by Nationalist China.
Even though the line covers the waters northeast of the Indonesian-owned Natuna Islands, the Chinese government has given Indonesia categorical assurances that China does not claim the Natuna Islands or their Exclusive Economic Zone.
His government can claim to have reduced poverty from 35% to 22% of the population, and also to have maintained a trend towards lower inequality, with the Gini coefficient – a 0-1 scale of wealth concentration – declining from 0.583 in 2003 to 0.548 in 2008.
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