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For example, the claim that it was a deliberate preventive war by Germany is belied by the evidence showing that key elites did not believe this.
So far, it is odd to claim that advanced countries have stimulated demand excessively.
The armed forces, however, claim a constitutional mandate to protect the Republic’s secular traditions.
A free society should be open to discussing such a claim.
The ECB’s ongoing acquiescence in the extend-and-pretend charade demanded by Greece’s creditors has demolished its claim to be independent.
And both repeatedly claim widespread popular support, contrary to data (although Duterte does seem to have the edge in actual popular backing).
To be sure, some claim that SOEs should be allowed to continue their operations, citing their huge profits.
Defenders of the Bush doctrine claim that this is impossible when they operate out of failed states that cannot police their borders.
Although Russia and the West each claim to uphold a rules-based international order, both sides have flouted the United Nations Charter when it suits them, accusing the other of hypocrisy.
Eurozone authorities may claim that a Greek exit no longer poses a systemic risk, given the introduction in recent years of various instruments for fighting financial crises, including government-backed rescue funds, a partial banking union, tougher fiscal controls, and the European Central Bank’s new role as lender of last resort.
Services without TearsNEW YORK – A famous claim in economics is that the cost of services (such as health care and education) tends to increase relative to the cost of goods (such as food, oil, and machinery).
After two summits in March, however, European officials claim to have produced an enhanced, bug-free version.
As a result, the regime is finding it increasingly difficult to claim, as it has for the last 15 years, that Bouteflika’s leadership represents civilian control over the military.
Youth of the Ijo tribe demand that the government redraw local government boundaries, which they claim favor the Itsekiri, a rival group, before the elections.
The second claim is that these countries live in peace because they are democracies.
Popper showed that totalitarian ideologies like communism and Nazism have a common element: they claim to be in possession of the ultimate truth.
Although the doctrine of laissez-faire does not contradict the principles of the open society the way Marxism-Leninism or Nazi ideas of racial purity did, all these doctrines have an important feature in common: they justify their claim to ultimate truth with an appeal to science.
In the case of the doctrine of laissez-faire capitalism, the claim is more difficult to dispute because it is based on economic theory, and economics is the most reputable of the social sciences.
As if on cue, this was followed by Human Rights Watch, which paraded an even less credible set of allegations – including the risible claim that a Congolese rebel was seen by an unspecified number of unnamed witnesses at a bar on the Rwandan side of the border.
Again, the empirical evidence does not support this extravagant claim.
While US debt might be a deciding factor in the upcoming presidential election, its origins are not as clear as many claim.
Assertions by Republican Party leaders that excessive social support is the primary culprit – a favorite theme of vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan – are just as mistaken as Democratic Party leaders’ claim that permitting tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to expire at the end of this year would cure all.
Political commentators sometimes claim to detect important differences in their underlying political attitudes.
The most critical issue facing Brown is whether he chooses to distance himself from Blair’s self-satisfied and delusional claim that the invasion of Iraq was “the right thing to do.”Britain has already reduced its forces in southern Iraq, and is on course to reduce them still further as they hand over “security” to the Iraqi police and military.
The two civilian leaders may soon begin vying with each other to see who can claim to be more anti-Musharraf.
Critics claim that the commodification of education somehow degrades it.
Contrary to what zealots in either camp claim, neither public nor private schools perform better than the alternative at all times.
The biggest headlines about IPCC errors concern a claim about melting Himalayan glaciers that it made in its 2007 report on the likely impacts of climate change.
Earlier this month, the Indian government reacted to the revelations about the baseless nature of the glacier claim by announcing plans to establish what amounts to its own “Indian IPCC” to assess the impact of global warming.
The basis for this claim was a single report from the World Wildlife Fund that itself cited only one study, which didn’t even look at climate change, but rather at the impact of human activities like logging and burning.
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