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Sometimes it is claimed that homosexuality is wrong because it is “unnatural,” and even a “perversion of our sexual capacity,” which supposedly exists for the purpose of reproduction.
Hwang and his colleagues claimed to have replaced the nucleus of an unfertilized human egg with the nucleus of an ordinary cell taken from another person, developing stem-cell lines from the resulting embryo that matched the DNA of the person who supplied the ordinary cell.
Nevertheless, few researchers doubt that what Hwang and his colleagues claimed to do is, in principle, achievable.
But it is precisely this reasoning that is threatened by what Hwang and his team claimed to have achieved.
If the Kremlin claimed credit for the oil- and gas-fired prosperity of the past six years – prosperity due solely to economic exuberance elsewhere in the world – the Kremlin should be accountable for the current devastation.
Market concentration renders mostly illusory the beneficent risk-spreading role that is claimed for derivatives, because the bulk of the risk is borne by very few players.
Even the decision to redefine the market’s role in resource allocation as “decisive” was not the breakthrough that many observers have claimed.
Invoking Article 7 is not a “nuclear option,” as some have claimed.
This highlights the fact that the IPCC has always claimed only that more than half of the temperature rise is due to humans, although in public discussion it has usually been interpreted as all.
While some see no contradiction, the fact that many of the collaborators who killed secular and pro-democracy Bengalis in 1971 claimed to be doing so in the name of Islam points to an evident tension.
CAMBRIDGE – Hillary Clinton has repeatedly claimed in recent months that the US economy does much better when a Democrat is in the White House.
In one case, a document describing a plot directed against Christian minorities turned out to have been in police possession before the authorities claimed to have recovered it from a suspect.
He claimed that the explosion was the result of a "deranged man."
And, decades after Lewis L. Strauss, the Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Agency, claimed that nuclear power would become “too cheap to meter,” the nuclear industry everywhere still subsists on munificent government subsidies.
The chief investigator, Giovanni Kessler, claimed that Dalli was aware that someone close to him was “using his influence,” yet he “did not attempt to dissociate himself,” and did nothing “to prevent, stop, or report it.”
The most that can be claimed for this vast monetary expansion is that it produced a temporary “spike" in inflation.
In the West, occultism emerged in response to the Enlightenment's faith in science, helped by a number of medical professionals who claimed that vampires actually existed.
The only sure thing, John Maynard Keynes is supposed to have claimed, is that the market can remain misaligned much longer than you or I can remain solvent.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who led the November 2015 Paris attacks, claimed he was one of 90 ISIS-trained terrorists in Europe.
The former, called the Senkaku Islands in Japan, and the Diaoyu Islands in China, are claimed by China, Japan, and Taiwan; the latter, called Takeshima in Japan, and Dokdo in Korea, are claimed by South Korea and Japan.
Instead, it is claimed, eurozone members should have been allowed to default.
His physician claimed that Moore had waived his interest in his body parts by signing a general consent form.
Or are they, as a director of SmithKline Beecham purportedly claimed, "the currency of the future."
A choir of prominent American economists, including Paul Krugman, Kenneth Rogoff, and Nouriel Roubini, claimed that Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania must also devalue.
Pandering to BJP governments in Gujarat and Maharashtra, which claimed that, as “producer” states, they would lose out from a GST, Modi revised the bill to grant states the right to levy an additional 1% tax on outgoing goods.
Remember how, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Al Gore (and many others) claimed that we were in store for ever more devastating hurricanes?
The article named former Tanzanian presidents Benjamin Mkapa and Jakaya Kikwete, which the government claimed was a violation of the Media Services Act of 2016.
Vallenilla claimed to be seeking an effective (as opposed to the formal) constitutional system for his country.
Contrary to what the followers of Friedrich von Hayek and Andrew Mellon have always claimed, economic readjustments do not happen when bankruptcies force labor and capital out of low-productivity, low-demand industries, but rather when booms pull labor and capital into high-productivity, high-demand industries.
For starters, Kennan claimed that the particular combination of “nature and human behavior” in Latin America had produced a uniquely “unhappy and hopeless background for the conduct of human life.”
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