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The Death of World Heritage SitesSAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – Climate change has claimed another victim.
And just this month, Green Senator Esther Benbassa claimed that a miniskirt is no less alienating than a chador.
The End of AIDSNEW YORK – The AIDS pandemic claimed around 36 million lives between 1981 and 2016, and a similar number around the world currently live with the HIV virus.
The DPJ claimed that these candidates were too closely tied to the finance ministry, owing to long careers there, to act independently of it.
Socrates, Plato’s teacher, famously goaded the Athenian authorities by maintaining that he was wiser than the Oracle at Delphi, who claimed to be the wisest, because he, unlike most people (including the Athenian authorities), knew that he did not know anything.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government claimed throughout, and still does, that it maintained a “zero civilian casualties” policy.
Arab governments – and many Westerners – claimed that privatization and other economic reforms should be given priority over political change.
Bush Loses in the Supreme Court and America WinsTwo rulings of the United States Supreme Court this week rejected the sweeping wartime powers claimed by President Bush.
But many campaigners have claimed other effects.
Finally, it is often claimed that GM crops simply mean costlier seeds and less money for farmers.
He claimed that globalization and mass immigration are destroying jobs, overwhelming public services, compromising French national identity, and breeding terrorists.
The article claimed that the change raised costs by forcing British construction workers to perform more of their jobs in relative darkness.
As Milosevic showed again in the 1990s, when he claimed to be defending innocent Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia, justifying military intervention solely on the basis of moral principles leaves too much room for their distortion and abuse.
Indeed, disaster has stalked South Korea this year, beginning in April with the sinking of the ferry Sewol, which claimed some 300 lives, most of them high school students.
Obama has also claimed that nobody knew how bad the Great Recession was going to be.
Are we, as some observers have claimed, witnessing the end of convergence?
We still know too little about Mohammed Merah, who killed seven people in total during his rampage, to ascertain whether he was affiliated with al-Qaeda, as he claimed, and we should be careful to draw conclusions about the cause and nature of his crime before the investigation has run its course.
As a relatively small number of people have claimed a growing piece of the pie, in the form of rents and profits, surging inequality of wealth and income has fueled widespread frustration with existing economic and political arrangements.
That doctrine of hard discipline was abolished in a coup in May 2010, when it was claimed that the world would collapse unless Germany opened its purse.
The Great Terror of 1937-1938 began with a shooting campaign – directed chiefly against peasants – that claimed 386,798 lives across the Soviet Union, a disproportionate number of them in Ukraine.
Of course, that does not mean that no identity is claimed.
But only three times has an Italian vote claimed center stage internationally: in 1948, when the choice was between the West and communism; in 1976, when voters faced a similar choice, between the Christian Democrats and Enrico Berlinguer’s “Eurocommunism”; and now, with the upcoming referendum on constitutional reforms.
For a decade or so, many in the US have claimed that China’s categorization as a developing country, and the resulting favorable treatment it enjoys at the WTO, do not reflect the true strength of an economy whose goods exports amount to $2 trillion, or 11% of world trade.
Indeed, even while in office, Berlusconi consistently claimed that he was being attacked by the judiciary, by rival businessmen, by “communists,” by the political establishment.
Ignorant of the extensive “deindustrialization” debate in 1960’s Great Britain, two Berkeley academics, Stephen Cohen and John Zysman, started a similar debate in the US in 1987 with their book Manufacturing Matters, which claimed that, without manufactures, a viable service sector is untenable.
This nearly happened in February 1996 during the crisis over the islet of Imia/Kardak, which was claimed by both countries.
For example, Nokia initially claimed that it could not use the Android operating system without including Google applications on its phones.
Thus, though Smoot-Hawley was not a direct cause of the Great Depression, as many have claimed, it did contribute to a breakdown of international trade precisely when the world could least afford it.
The Republican Party, which had long claimed to be the party of fiscal responsibility, forfeited that identity.
The Chinese consistently said that they did not want North Korea to develop nuclear weapons, but claimed that they had limited influence over the regime, despite being its major supplier of food and fuel.
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