Claim
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Fourteen years later, the Decembrist revolt – a movement of poets and army officers to topple Czar Nicholas I and establish a constitutional monarchy – seemed to refute de Maistre’s
claim.
“To profess” has a spectrum of meanings: to affirm openly; declare or claim; to make a pretense of; pretend; to
claim
skill in or knowledge of; to affirm belief in; to receive into a religious order or congregation; to make an open affirmation; or to take the vows of a religious order or congregation.
In fact, a lethal dose of nicotine is a lot higher than the 30-60 milligrams that many scientific papers
claim.
Neither controversy bears on the Keynesian
claim
that under conditions of high unemployment, low inflation, and low interest rates (which hold in rich countries today, as in the 1930’s), fiscal expansion is expansionary and fiscal contraction is contractionary.
Of course, those who
claim
such authority, including Trump, hasten to insist that there will be no reason to use it.
He agreed with the powerful conservative congressman Trey Gowdy’s rejection of Trump’s
claim
that the FBI had infiltrated spies into his 2016 campaign.
They claim, for example, that the president can end the Mueller investigation at any time and for any reason.
But the most outlandish
claim
was made by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who joined the president’s team after the letters to Mueller were written.
China and India
claim
the right to proceed with industrialization and development as the developed nations did, unhampered by limits on their greenhouse gas emissions.
They could no longer
claim
their traditional role as the party of reliable economic management because, during its four years in power, New Labour delivered an impressive record of economic competence and stability, with high growth and low inflation.
President Clinton presided over eight years of successful fiscal management and prosperity, so George W. Bush could not
claim
this middle ground.
The dilemma in Britain is the same as that of any West European country: the move by left-of-center parties to the middle ground, and their acceptance of market forces, means that right-of-center parties have lost their traditional
claim
to govern on the grounds of economic moderation and good sense.
The sooner this happens, the more difficult it will be for the separatists to
claim
that they alone are the legitimate authors of Chechnya's fate.
Unless it modernizes its economy and society, Russia can forget its
claim
to status as a world power in the twenty-first century and will continue to fall behind both old and newly emerging powers.
Both sides
claim
to want improved bilateral relations, but there is room for doubt about whether Russians and Europeans actually think about their relations in the same terms.
China’s unprecedented economic rise, which has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty over the last three decades, was a result of economic decentralization and freer, more competitive markets – not clever government planning, as some like to
claim.
Trump expressed his admiration for Putin well before the election, and, it seems, fantasized about meeting him – a dream so potent, apparently, that it drove Trump to
claim
that he actually had, at the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.
Concerned by its losses, the UMNO has staked a
claim
to the defense of Islam in Malaysia.
In front of their board, they rattle off exaggerated claims about where the company stands; some 80% of annual reports
claim
that their company is “the leader in the market.”
And Iran’s behavior in the broader Middle East – particularly its support for terrorist groups in the region – seems to belie its
claim
to be seeking regional stability and economic development.
But that
claim
says more about the critics of the Iran deal than it does about any objective comparison of the two countries.
High-ranking clergy there
claim
that priests in Iraq can no longer wear their clerical robes in public for fear of being attacked by Islamists.
In some cases, they claim, ballot boxes did not arrive in Assyrian towns and villages, voting officials failed to show up, or ballot boxes were stolen.
The US and China are in a race to be the world’s worst polluter;America has long won the contest, but in the next few years, China will
claim
that dubious honor.
Hamas leaders
claim
that they were not consulted before the announcement, and they resent Abbas’s unilateral decision, calling it a direct violation of an agreement between Hamas and Abbas’s Fatah party that led to the current ceasefire with Israel.
Finally, proponents of a German exit
claim
that the eurozone in its current form is deeply flawed (although they usually are reluctant to provide details regarding exactly how).
Bush actually had known better than to support the
claim
that tax cuts would reduce the budget deficit by boosting revenues.
So long as the bad debts
claim
center stage, collapse of domestic finance and of a nation's currency becomes extreme.
They
claim
that the government intends to “bounce” Britain into the euro in the next year or so, against the wishes of the people.
By accepting European demands for democratic reform as a pre-condition for EU membership, Erdogan played a liberalizing role, reinforcing his
claim
that his party represents a genuinely democratic option for a Muslim-majority country B indeed, that it is an Islamic version of the Christian Democratic parties that have long dominated Europe's political right.
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