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One must always remember: pensions are ultimately a claim on future output, whether in the form of a tradable financial asset or a legally binding commitment of the state.
Proponents of this view also claim that the megabanks are managing risk better than they did before the global financial crisis erupted in 2008.
For those elections that have been genuinely competitive, researchers claim to have found evidence of positive effects.
If human rights, including women’s rights, for example, are indeed a key element of democratic values, we can negotiate on all kinds of issues with those who suppress them; but as long as there is no progress on these rights, we cannot be true friends and at the same time claim to uphold universal human values.
Fundamentalists claim that faster year-on-year growth in US average hourly earnings was the immediate trigger for the crash.
But the claim that such a slight change – from 2.7% in December to 2.9% in January (which observers view as an aberration, caused by seasonal factors) – could trigger a stock-market correction is in itself a strike against the fundamentalist view.
After all, there are two reasons to hold an equity claim: because it will pay a dividend or because its price is expected to go up.
To assess Trump’s claim, it is important to understand that when we ask how much countries should cut their greenhouse-gas emissions, we are essentially discussing how to distribute a limited resource.
Other countries can claim that the US has already used up its historical per capita share of the atmosphere’s capacity to absorb greenhouse gases, and they should be entitled to emit more in the future so that we will at least come closer to equal per capita shares over time.
Trump’s claim that the Paris climate agreement was unfair to the US does not withstand scrutiny.
The concept was further developed by Karl Popper in his famous book "The Open Society and its Enemies" where he showed that the open society may also be threatened by universal ideas if they claim a monopoly of the truth; but the problems of the region are best understood in terms of Bergson's formulation.
As in other instances where government officials claim unanimity--such as Saddam Hussein's assertion that he obtained 100% of Iraqis' support in the plebiscite that he conducted shortly before the war--America's position is simply not credible.
Authoritarian leaders in Asia routinely claim that their countries are culturally unsuited to democracy.
Those who invoke human rights to promote wars or, as with This World, to make political propaganda, degrade the very ideals for which they claim to be fighting.
A leftover Soviet distrust of outsiders colors many opinions, and there’s an oft-repeated claim that the culture is different: an intervention that works in the West might fail in the East.
The goal of Russia’s intervention is therefore not to contribute to the “struggle against terrorism,” as the Kremlin’s propagandists claim, but to restore political control, at any cost, to the regime that spawned the terrorism in the first place.
In the Machiavellian tradition, lying is sometimes justified by reference to the higher needs of political statecraft, and sometimes by the claim that the state, as an embodiment of the public good, represents a higher level of morality.
The economic variant of Machiavellianism is as powerful as the claim that political untruth can be virtuous.
The Court held that clinicians must inform patients in advance of surgery that their tissue could be used for research, but denied Moore's claim.
His latest screed begins with the claim that “Britain’s economic performance since the financial crisis struck has been startlingly bad.”
It is, they claim, focused exclusively on extracting maximum, short-term profit, with little regard for governance standards, let alone host countries’ longer-term development goals.
Another widespread claim is that Chinese companies prefer to employ their own nationals rather than locals.
After all, the key to successful leadership is to surround oneself with good people, empower them by delegating authority, and then claim credit for their accomplishments.
With no real legislative achievements to claim, he did something.
Bernanke doesn’t take orders from the US president, and King doesn’t take orders from the British prime minister (and it’s not even clear who would claim to tell Trichet what to do).
Putin’s factotums claim that Ukraine’s Russian speakers are under threat, but they cannot point to a single example of persecution that might bear this out.
Backed by evidence from large empirical studies, some claim that belief in religion is good because it boosts economic performance.
Thus, Cameron’s claim that Juncker’s election would make it more difficult to ensure the UK’s continued EU membership risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Defenders of Germany’s solar subsidies also claim that they have helped to create “green jobs”.
Trump’s drop in the polls since the tape’s release has changed that, and the candidate has made matters worse for his party by denying that he has groped or assaulted women – a claim that impelled numerous women to come forward and say otherwise.
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