Claim
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2540 examples of Claim in a sentence
China had several possible motives for staging his “escape,” including a desire to strengthen his
claim
to the title at a time when the rival contender (backed by important interests in India, Bhutan, and Taiwan) appeared to be gaining ground.
But these measures largely ignore the problems posed by tax havens, and do little to help poor countries
claim
their fair share of taxes.
Europe has lost its implicit
claim
to be the best source of serious people with the experience needed to run the international monetary system.
There are three respects in which Europe can no longer
claim
to be a special seat of wisdom and responsibility.
By that point, this age group in industrial countries will
claim
one-third of the total population.
But anti-immigration groups have offered no significant empirical evidence to support this
claim.
After all, closing the borders to those in need is an extreme response – and one that runs counter to the Christian and European values immigration opponents
claim
to be defending.
In today’s America, the proud
claim
of “justice for all” is being replaced by the more modest
claim
of “justice for those who can afford it.”
Last August we reported that Yinguang Xia Holdings, the second largest listed company in China's A share market in 2000, posted a falsified
claim
of 700 million renmenbi (US$87 million) in profits online.
In short, the overarching
claim
that the share of wealth transfers in household wealth is rising is not accurate in all cases – and certainly not in the world’s richest economy.
Others may
claim
that even the idea of eradicating hunger is nonsense, because we lack the means to do it.
NEW HAVEN – I am one of the winners of this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which makes me acutely aware of criticism of the prize by those who
claim
that economics – unlike chemistry, physics, or medicine, for which Nobel Prizes are also awarded – is not a science.
Obama’s Republican opponents, who
claim
that fiscal stimulus cannot work, rely on arguments that are incoherent at best, and usually simply wrong, if not mendacious.
Those who
claim
that America has a debt problem, and that a debt problem cannot be cured with more debt, ignore (sometimes deliberately) that private debt and US Treasury debt have been very different animals – moving in different directions and behaving in different ways – since the start of the financial crisis.
Parfit’s response to this line of argument leads him to make a
claim
that is perhaps even bolder than his defense of objectivism in ethics.
They
claim
that technologies like Internet search and social networking cannot improve productivity to the same extent that electrification and the rise of the automobile did.
Rodrik has rendered a major service by stating so openly the
claim
of “one economics.”
A critic who made the same
claim
that economics allows only one theoretical approach would be dismissed as paranoid, whereas Rodrik’s standing creates an opportunity for a debate that would not otherwise be possible.
But, while the many recipes thesis has strong appeal and empirical support, and suggests a spirit of theoretical pluralism, the
claim
of “one economics” is misguided, for it implies that mainstream neoclassical economics is the only true economics.
These differences reflect the intellectual richness of neo-classical economics, but they provide no justification for the
claim
that there is one economics.
By repeating the
claim
of “one economics,” Rodrik inadvertently reveals the censorship embedded in contemporary economics.
I do not
claim
to understand the world of terrorism, but I do know that those who live in and around Manchester and other cities need to feel part of their community and share its aspirations.
That shadow extends to the
claim
that corporate governance in Japan has been improving substantially, following reforms encouraged by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government.
But the consensus view at the most recent meeting of the FDIC’s Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee (of which I am a member) was that this
claim
should not be taken seriously.
Religious fundamentalists
claim
that the law must be anchored in the belief in a supreme being, or even be based on revelation.
Despite the country’s many political transformations in the last half-century, the MILF’s campaign to achieve independence for the Bangsamoro nation – whose territory, they claim, covers the islands of Mindanao, Palawan, Sulu, and Sabah – remained constant, until President Benigno Aquino III resolved to change it.
The authors
claim
this would boost economic growth, despite the fact that similar cuts in the past (for example, under President George W. Bush) had no such effect.
The entire legal process might well be cut short by a US veto at the UN Security Council, and Israel might still stick to its traditional
claim
about its right of self-defense.
It is neither here nor there to
claim
that “had the UK not used a labyrinth of rules and regulations to hold nominal interest rates on debt below inflation, its debt-to-GDP ratio might have risen over the period 1945-1955 instead of falling dramatically.”
Some people, however,
claim
the right to know all information pertaining to them, including even the slightest elevated risk for these diseases.
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