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Eight hundred years ago, approximately, the barons of England decided that the Divine Right of Kings was no longer working for them so well, and they forced King John to sign the Magna Carta, which recognized that even the king who claimed to have divine rule still had to abide by a basic set of rules.
And she claimed to be the general manager of Red Cross at the Chamber of Commerce.
This mother, Diane Downs, shot her kids at close range, drove them to the hospital while they bled all over the car, claimed a scraggy-haired stranger did it.
Audi claimed it's going to beat them both by a year.
What if everything we needed to realize our aspiration for healthcare was right there in front of us just waiting to be claimed?
When these villagers claimed their freedom, the slaveholders burned down all of their houses.
Just heard that he claimed that you play the piano in an opium den."
They had heard bin Laden say that that was jihad, and claimed victory for it.
Nobody has claimed credit for that.
So, in other words, it claimed it could deliver a message before you sent it.
We've allowed Judaism to be claimed by violently messianic West Bank settlers, Christianity by homophobic hypocrites and misogynistic bigots, Islam by suicide bombers.
But probably the worst was I suspected that a woman was innocent of abuse that was being claimed by her grown daughter.
Tomkins claimed that certain affects— emotional states and their associated facial expressions— were universal.
You may think that can't happen, but I grew up in a society where my mother put out small vases of cigarettes for dinner parties, where blacks and whites used separate bathrooms, and where everybody claimed to be heterosexual.
For almost five years I stayed there, and we focused on fighting a war that was unconventional and it was difficult and it was bloody and it often claimed its highest price among innocent people.
So my father tried to get the police on the phone, but perhaps terrified by the rising tide of armed extremism that had already claimed the lives of so many Algerian officers, they didn't even answer.
Just yesterday, I was attacked by a guy who claimed that I was filming him.
It's also not true, as Malcolm Gladwell claimed, that today's protesters form weaker virtual ties.
At the British Museum, we were warned that the Zuni case would establish a dangerous precedent for bigger disputes, such as the Parthenon Marbles, claimed by Greece.
In that same oral history, Bonica claimed that pain is the most complex human experience.
Vitruvius claimed the navel is the center of the human body and that if one takes a compass and places the fixed point on the navel, a circle can be drawn perfectly around the body.
He pried mankind off the chain and claimed that humans have a unique ability to take any position they want.
Pico claimed that God desired a being capable of comprehending the beautiful and complicated universe he had created.
One ancient theory was an idea called vitalism, which claimed that living things were unique because they were filled with a special substance, or energy, that was the essence of life.
And in 1907, Dr. Duncan McDougall even claimed that the soul had mass, weighing patients immediately before and after death in an attempt to prove it.
So they claimed that Africans were biologically inferior and destined to be slaves, making great efforts to justify this theory.
He claimed that because black people have lower lung capacity than whites, forced labor was good for them.
In other cases, systematic errors arise through deliberate fraud, like the presidential referendum held by Saddam Hussein in 2002, which claimed a turnout of 100% of voters with all 100% supposedly voting in favor of another seven-year term.
The final spot was claimed by the pig, who had gotten hungry and stopped to eat and nap before finally waddling across the finish line.
Claimed to have restorative properties, radium was added to toothpaste, medicine, water, and food.
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