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My support for capital punishment would weaken greatly if the rate of killing innocent people were as large as that claimed by many.
Many so-called frauds are cases in which researchers claimed credit for work they have not really carried out, but that pointed in the right direction and was eventually completed by others.
He also engineered an extrajudicial drug-suppression campaign that claimed 2,275 lives.
Every time, borrowers and lenders claimed to have learned their lesson.
At its launch, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim claimed, “We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.”
In presenting the United Kingdom’s 2015 budget in March, Osborne claimed that austerity had made Britain “walk tall” again.
Thus, when Schroeder claimed special circumstances for Germany’s failure to meet the budgetary ceilings of the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact, he seemed to be arguing that the restrictions should apply only to smaller countries, not to the big players.
Both claimed, without providing evidence, that “hostile” foreign forces, seeking to pry Hong Kong away from China, were behind the city’s many troubles.
Faced with street protests in November, President Mikheil Saakashvili claimed that Russian-Georgian tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili was conspiring to bring down the government.
It is as if Mussolini had claimed that only he, not the College of Cardinals, could appoint the pope.
Even the few who claimed knowledge about Roma were unsure about who commissioned the billboard.
Moreover, the virus has claimed the lives of many doctors trying to treat victims, and forced the closure of hospitals that were unable to contain the virus.
Unfortunately, the insurgents have resorted to terrorist tactics, and their suicide attacks have claimed many innocent lives.
A 2015 agreement, endorsed by Abe and former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, claimed to resolve the issue “irreversibly”: Japan offered its apology and one billion yen ($8.8 million) for a fund created to help the victims.
Even as the rich countries urged developing countries to make quick adjustments, they claimed that they needed a decade to make the transition to a quota-free textile regime.
But, like any sharp negotiator, the US claimed that at worst it had violated the spirit, not the letter, of the agreement.
To be sure, the US had inserted fine print that created a category of allowed agricultural subsidies – those that didn’t distort trade – and it claimed all of its increases were of this kind.
LONDON – Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, has repeatedly claimed that the ECB will do everything necessary to save the euro.
The EC claimed that it delayed the announcement on Gujarat so that the electoral Code of Conduct (which would restrict government spending in the state) would not impede flood relief.
Most recently, China decided to move an oil rig into waters claimed by Vietnam.
Algeria’s Dying DictatorshipALGIERS – Despite his failing health, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won a fourth term last month, with 81% of the vote – or so the regime claimed.
But the poor, it is claimed, are still better off than they would have been had the gap been artificially narrowed by trade unions or governments.
What did Trump get from the Europeans, other than a return to a trade negotiation straight out of the Obama era?Trump claimed, at the press conference and subsequently, that he won a pledge from Juncker to buy more natural gas and “a lot of soybeans.”
The resemblance to Marxism, which also claimed scientific status for its tenets, is too close for comfort.
It claims that if redistribution causes inefficiencies and distortions, the problems can be solved by eliminating redistribution--just as communism claimed that the duplication involved in competition was wasteful, and therefore a centrally planned economy was superior.
Unfortunately, as China has already claimed a large share of the world’s merchandise exports (10.4% in 2010) and economic stagnation in the West is constraining external demand, this strategy can no longer work.
Trump later claimed he briefly mentioned human rights to Duterte, but a Philippine government spokesperson said the two had not discussed rights issues.
When the Indian government suggested last year that the Himalayan glaciers were in better shape than the IPCC claimed, the IPCC’s chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, dismissed India’s objections as being based on “voodoo science.”
Elsewhere in the 2007 assessment, Working Group II claimed that “up to 40% of the Amazonian forests” were at imminent risk of being destroyed by global warming.
In similar fashion, Working Group II claimed that “by 2020, in some [African] countries, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50%.”
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