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Simply put, new reformers contend that Islam is flexible; that Islam's tenets can accommodate and even encourage pluralism.They are challenging those who
claim
Islam is unchanging across time, space or experience.
Fox News host Sean Hannity and regular Fox commentator Newt Gingrich eagerly propagated one of the most bizarre conspiracy theories of our time: the
claim
that Clinton and her cohort were running a pedophilia ring out of a Washington, DC, pizzeria.
One possible line of criticism of this kind of thinking is simply to
claim
the superiority of Western values.
In other words, the
claim
that “the market failed” is too alarmingly broad.Actually, one part of the market failed, but government and regulators were part of that failure.
Many hopes throughout the world are now directed toward President Barack Obama, who enters his presidency with a moral
claim
that is extraordinarily high for a politician.
But Cuba, where the Soviet Union provided essential financial assistance in exchange for Fidel Castro’s slavish loyalty, offers a powerful reminder of Russia’s
claim
to global relevance.
And half of all respondents
claim
to make daily sacrifices to save for major expenditures.
Because these ideologies’
claim
to be in possession of the ultimate truth is bound to be false, they can be imposed on society only through repression and compulsion.
Khashoggi, they claim, left the consulate.
As a result, it has come to be associated with the status quo, even though it hasn’t been able to
claim
direct credit for the previous governments’ successes.
Their current leaders
claim
to be defending national interests.
The Court made short shrift of Ellwanger's claim, because all human beings can be the victims of racism.
They didn’t
claim
that what he said was inaccurate, or shortsighted, or analytically unsound.
The
claim
that gun ownership ensures freedom is especially absurd, given that most of the world’s vibrant democracies have long since cracked down on private gun ownership.
Defenders of the distinction often
claim
that the state should be neutral between competing moral ideals, but is such neutrality really possible?
The stronger objection to the prohibition of homosexuality is to deny the
claim
that lies at its core: that sexual acts between consenting people of the same sex are immoral.
Since 1945, it has been an oddity: a hereditary communist dictatorship whose legitimacy rests on its
claim
to be the vanguard of Korean nationalism.
Once we abandon arguments based on potential, the
claim
that it is wrong to kill embryos and fetuses must be based on the nature of those entities themselves – that they are actual human beings who already possess the characteristics that make killing wrong.
China’s
claim
that its GDP grew at a 6% rate, during the end of last year, is suspect.
Optimists
claim
that most emerging economies are well prepared to withstand the shock, because their dollar debts are lower than in the past, while their fiscal positions are much stronger.
Pessimists
claim
that in the absence of well developed local financial markets and a global lender of last resort, emerging economies remain vulnerable to a sudden stop in capital flows.
Of course, if America’s strong patent regime were, as its proponents claim, the best way to foster innovation in the pharmaceutical industry, the Obama administration’s policy toward India could perhaps be justified.
And, of course, Trump will still
claim
that the US economy can grow at a rate of 4%, even though all mainstream economists, including Republicans, agree that the potential growth rate will remain around 2%, regardless of his policies.
The Court must rule on German plaintiffs’
claim
that legislation to establish the ESM would violate Germany’s Grundgesetz (Basic Law).
First, they
claim
that it breaches the Maastricht Treaty’s “no bail-out” clause (Article 125).
Moreover, the plaintiffs
claim
that, while the ESM treaty is restrictive in granting resources to individual states, requiring a qualified majority vote, it does not specify the conditions under which losses are acceptable.
If Turkey pulls away from Europe, the EU’s
claim
that it successfully wields “soft power” in world politics will be powerfully undermined.
Many people will doubt this
claim.
In support of this claim, he refers to the “Flynn Effect” – the remarkable finding by the philosopher James Flynn that since IQ tests were first administered, scores have risen considerably.
But, to anyone who has experienced or even studied colonialism, the
claim
seems inappropriate, if not insulting.
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