Claim
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Some Albanians
claim
that these allegations are Serbian propaganda.
They also overwhelmingly
claim
that education and hard work are the ways to get ahead in life.
But the consequences of any default would, ironically, actually increase the size of government relative to the US economy – the very outcome that Republican intransigents
claim
to be trying to avoid.
They are advocating a policy that would have dire effects, and that would accomplish the opposite of what they
claim
to want, because a default would immediately make the government more, not less, important.
Its democratic posturing has been unmasked as cynical political theater, its
claim
to desire a European future for Ukraine’s people revealed to be a lie, and the rapaciousness of its kleptocrats has been laid bare.
This
claim
is so widely accepted today that challenging it may seem like arguing that the sun revolves around the earth.
The Chinese government continues to
claim
that the Tiananmen movement and democracy mean political turmoil and national disintegration.
Likewise, metrics of equality of opportunity have only recently exposed the hypocrisy of America’s
claim
to be a land of opportunity: Yes, anyone can get ahead, so long as they are born of rich, white parents.
But applying this rationale to America’s closest allies turns the national-security
claim
into a mere fig leaf for traditional protectionism for commercial objectives.
The politicians looked the other way – or were paid off, some
claim
– while these banks built balance sheets valued at two times Irish GDP.
Populist politicians who happen to be in office (think Donald Trump or pro-Brexit Tories) will
claim
credit for the recovery, and that will strengthen their political hand.
Yet many of the same people report feeling alone and abused, think their society is unfair, increasingly distrust their neighbors, and
claim
to be disillusioned with democracy.
If the US and other member states join the IDB and take on the responsibility to improve conditions in the Americas, they cannot then use their membership to undermine the basic rights of the people they
claim
to serve simply to advance their own political agenda.
I would be foolish to
claim
to have the final answer; addiction is a hard disease to treat.
More fundamentally, they
claim
that it is simply immoral that bosses should earn as much in a day as their employees do in a year.
Moreover, India can
claim
a great deal of pride in the fact that the last two presidents were from minority populations – one from the lowest of castes (Harijan, formerly referred to as “untouchables”), and another one from the Muslim community.
Indeed, the American Jewish Committee 2015 Survey of American Jewish Opinion reports the emergence of “two diverging Jewish sub-communities,” with a growing number of Jews feeling alienated by the organizations that
claim
to represent them.
Despite what governments claim, the death penalty for drug offenses does not target kingpins.
In June 2014, my government laid
claim
to Somalia’s 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), in line with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Many now
claim
that abolition of capital punishment is a precondition of a civilized criminal-law system.
Consider the Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, whose
claim
to have extracted stem cells from human embryos that he cloned turned out to be based on phony research.
Taming the PopulistsMADRID – In many Western democracies, right-wing populists, energized by self-proclaimed victories over “establishment elites,” are doubling down on the
claim
that globalization lies at the root of many citizens’ problems.
The image of “untrustworthy elites” is ideal fodder for populists, who
claim
that globalization has given the wealthy and powerful more money and power than ever.
And US President Barack Obama reaffirmed that the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands, over which China has attempted to stake its claim, are covered by the mutual-defense treaty.
But May is doing a fine job of undermining herself: her
claim
that a “Brexit dividend” will partly fund increases in spending on the National Health Service has been widely condemned as a lie.
And dollar debtors may not be alone in staking a
claim
on those reserves.
Wolfowitz’s pre-Bank
claim
to fame was his role as an architect of the Iraq war, arguably one of the greatest strategic debacles since Napoleon’s invasion of Russia.
They also contribute more in tax than they
claim
through social-welfare benefits or other payments.
At first, Blair thought that he could
claim
the right to remain in power for a third full five-year term.
These people were largely left in peace until a few years ago, when Jews began to lay
claim
on properties lost in 1948.
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