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Russia’s goal was not simply, as it claimed, to restore the status quo in South Ossetia.
Buried in the explanatory word salad that accompanied the revocation of Brennan’s security clearance, the White House claimed that Brennan’s “erratic” behavior was the cause.
Europe has never claimed to have the means of redressing all the strategic imbalances that exist in Africa – nor does it have any intention of doing so.
The left had maintained that Arafat would make a deal and honor it; the right claimed that Arafat would make a deal and violate it.
In the United States, according to the recently released World Inequality Report 2018, the share of national income claimed by the top 1% of the population rose from 11% in 1980 to 20% in 2014, compared to just 13% for the entire bottom half of the population.
The wheels of Philippine justice need retooling, so much so that the country’s Chief Justice himself recently called for an emergency summit to discuss a rash of extra-judicial killings that have the claimed the lives of leftists, human rights workers, and journalists under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Previously, corporations and individuals all over the world who claimed that they had been defamed – even if those suing or those who allegedly defamed them had little or no connection to the United Kingdom – would bring lawsuits for libel in the British courts.
Indeed, as part of their claimed desire to protect the nation’s sovereignty, governments in developing and emerging countries now regard cash transfers from rich countries for, say, democratization processes, with far more suspicion than they did in the 1990s.
The fuel for the air base came mostly from Russia, and the main Pentagon contractor’s local dealers falsely claimed that it was intended for domestic civilian consumption, thereby benefiting from lower import tariffs.
In the newspaper Le Figaro, a section on how to scale back one’s expenses predicted a “revolution in values” and claimed that people will put family ahead of work.
These younger people - the Iranian scholar claimed - are first of all Iranian nationalists, and would like to dissociate themselves from Middle Eastern politics, in particular the Arab-Israeli conflict.
He claimed that he had only Hong Kong’s interest in mind within the limits of China’s “one country, two systems” formula.
At the end of six months in office, Trump doesn’t have a single legislative achievement to crow about (though he has claimed the Senate’s approval of Neil Gorsuch as a new Supreme Court justice as a victory).
They failed – and later claimed victory for the full demise of the Soviet empire.
Similarly, the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, which has claimed 10,000 lives, exploits the desperation of mountain villagers hit by flash floods – the result of deforestation higher up.
But it took only a couple of days for the public to learn that Trump had saved far fewer jobs than he had claimed.
Since the end of the Cold War, when the West claimed victory for liberal democracy, US and European leaders have often cited “shared values” in forums like NATO and the G7 (known as the G8 until Russia was suspended in 2014 for breaching those values in Ukraine).
Somalia claimed that the self-determination principle should allow Somalis in northeastern Kenya and southern Ethiopia to secede.
He claimed to know nothing, but promised to find out by lunch what had happened.
Since 1995, when China occupied Mischief Reef, a maritime feature claimed by the Philippines, the EU has encouraged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to strengthen its code of conduct for the region.
Reagan won the presidency on promises to rebuild US power, which he claimed had been declining precipitously.
Aylwin was instinctively wary of markets and once proudly claimed never to have set foot in a shopping mall.
As a result, Trump positions himself in the dubious company of those throughout American history who displayed malice and suspicion toward new arrivals: the supporters of the Alien and Sedition Acts of the 1790s, which lengthened the period for naturalization to 14 years; the Know Nothings of the pre-Civil War years, who sought to bar Catholics from the country; those in the early twentieth century who claimed that newcomers from eastern and southern Europe, and from China and Japan, could not be made into Americans, and whose arguments led in the 1920s to stringent quotas for immigration from those regions; and those so intent on keeping out Jews seeking to flee Nazi Europe that even the small immigrant quotas for those countries were not filled.
Weisel claimed not to understand, so I explained: A majority of congressional Democrats supported the principle that the United States should sign trade agreements only with countries that are democracies.
For years, he claimed, with no evidence other than unnamed sources that he called “extremely credible,” that Barack Obama’s birth certificate was fraudulent.
In her recent speech, May claimed that “the UK is leaving the European Union, not Europe.”
He also claimed that the decision “is not intended, in any way, to reflect a departure from our strong commitment to facilitate a lasting peace agreement,” one “that is a great deal for the Israelis and a great deal for the Palestinians.”
This was not, he claimed, what he meant, and more importantly, “there is no scientific basis for such a belief.”
Such a claim would cover four disputed sets of land features: the Paracel Islands in the northwest, claimed by Vietnam as well; the Macclesfield Bank and Scarborough Reef in the north, also claimed by the Philippines; and the Spratly Islands in the south (variously claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei, in some cases against each other as well as against China.)
Although the country was never as protected from the global downturn as its authorities claimed, the country benefits from some factors that do help ease the damage inflicted by the international crisis, especially with regard to the availability of foreign currency in these times of restrictions on external financing.
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