Claim
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We Lebanese can already
claim
victory in our year-long non-violent fight for independence and democracy.
It may even help those in the West inclined to lose sight of the spiritual dimension of their values and of the metaphysical origins of the rights we claim, and thus regard documents like the Universal Declaration simply as good business.
Taken together, all these shortcomings cast serious doubt on the EU’s
claim
to be leading the debate over a fundamental reshaping of global economic governance.
But its defenders are willing to
claim
victory on the basis of the weakest possible evidence: the economy is no longer collapsing, so austerity must be working!
There is no evidence for this claim, even after many years of legal physician-assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and the American state of Oregon.
Another commentator even went so far as to
claim
that there is “little evidence to suggest that schoolchildren are actually getting any nutritional value from it at all.”
Current corporate structures are opaque, with the risks hidden around the world – and various shell games allowing companies to
claim
the same equity in more than one country.
The actual taxes and payments made by mining, oil, and other extractive-industry companies to governments are usually a well-kept secret, even though most of these governments
claim
to use the revenue for the public good.
To be sure, many outsiders
claim
that radicalization was not inevitable, and that it occurred precisely because external powers like the US failed to intervene earlier and more forcefully.
An oft-repeated
claim
is that Denmark – where politicians will meet in December to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol – receives one-fifth of its power from wind, making it by far the highest share in the world.
Moldova’s main
claim
to fame is King Stephen the Great, who defeated the Ottomans in a great fifteenth century battle.
Indeed, if the ECB intends to
claim
preferred-creditor status for any bonds that it buys, it is probably best that it buy very few.
Unlike equity, a debt security is a nominal
claim
whose value does not vary depending on the inflation rate.
While all eight Afghan presidential candidates
claim
to support the security accord, this may offer little comfort to the US, given that most of the candidates have directly opposed US interests in the past – not to mention that several of them are former or current warlords.
This claim, whether true or not, points to a serious mistake before the crisis that has not been sufficiently investigated, much less corrected.
Achieving Escape VelocityNEWPORT BEACH – It is not often that one can confidently
claim
that a single remedy could make billions of people around the world significantly better off; do so in a durable and mutually supportive manner; and thus improve the well-being of both current and future generations.
A Serbian insurgency and de facto partition of Kosovo remain possible, and we have yet to face the destabilizing effects of Kosovo’s
claim
to independence on other divided Balkan states such as Bosnia and Macedonia But the balance sheet is even worse in terms of international relations.
Demagogues
claim
that opening the door to migrants transforms host nations beyond recognition; in fact, the impact of migration is strongly positive.
That is the
claim
of two important recent papers, one by a bipartisan group of German economists, lawyers, and political scientists called the Glienicker Gruppe, and the other by Ashoka Mody, a former International Monetary Fund official who is now at Princeton University and the European think tank Bruegel.
The promise of rising material prosperity forms the foundation of the CCP’s
claim
to legitimacy.
Now, after abandoning their initial plan, Republicans
claim
they want a revenue-neutral tax cut that includes no reductions for the top 1% of earners.
And if the electoral numbers break down right, she could conceivably assemble a collection of regional and left-wing parties and stake a
claim
to rule India.
The Indian soldiers who died in WWI could make no such
claim.
For the same reason, it is disingenuous to
claim
that the troika forced Greece into excessive austerity.
The
claim
that force had not been used came from the Tibetan head of the supposedly autonomous government of Tibet, Jampa Phuntsok, who was in Beijing at the time for a meeting of China’s National People’s Congress.
And there is scant evidence to support the
claim
that businesspeople somehow embody pragmatism, given that so many powerful US business leaders are committed ideologues.
You buy low-carbohydrate products, energy and nutrition bars, vitamin- and mineral-fortified foods and beverages, soy foods, and practically anything with a health
claim.
Some people
claim
that the connection between socioeconomic conditions and violent extremism is specious, because most poor and marginalized communities do not join terrorist groups.
Turkey’s leaders
claim
they are fighting the SDF because we are “terrorists.”
Some
claim
that the ideal of sexual equality represents a particular cultural viewpoint, and that we Westerners should not seek to impose our values on other cultures.
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