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Exports of machinery and transport equipment, embodying higher technology, claimed only 10% or so of exports and only 1% of GDP.
Was it not the case, it is claimed, that the Shia also colluded with the Mongols in the fall of Baghdad in 1258, culminating in the death of the last Abbasid caliph and the destruction of the Abbasid Empire, the “universal state” of Muslims?
A survey published on a Web site associated with Hamas claimed credit for killing 54% of all the Israelis who died as a result of Palestinians’ armed struggle, and this body count is Hamas’s claim to success.
Earlier this year, Rajasthan’s education minister, Vasudev Devnani, another BJP stalwart, claimed that the cow is the only animal that inhales and exhales oxygen.
But, at the inauguration of a Mumbai hospital in October 2014, he claimed that the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh was proof of ancient India’s knowledge of plastic surgery.
Then and now, the US has claimed to speak in the interest of the Syrian people.
In both cases, the main argument for not removing the debt overhang came from bankers, who claimed that it would create havoc in financial markets for two reasons.
Chinese officials had clearly decided that these diaspora darlings of the international art scene should be now claimed as China’s own.
He repeatedly claimed that Russia and its rapidly collapsing economy are thriving – something not even his most ardent supporters believe.
Others have claimed that the fight against the Houthis – a Zaidi Shia-led religious-political movement – is just one element in a broader war on the Shia that Saudi Arabia has supposedly been waging.
Iran itself has claimed numerous times that it controls four Arab capitals, including Sana’a, and the Houthis have become closely tied with Hezbollah, Iran’s Lebanese political and military proxy.
In fact, Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah has claimed the Houthi cause as his own, allowing Houthi media to set up in Beirut’s southern suburbs and publicly welcoming Houthi fighters to train with his forces.
Nor did it expect to have an instant impact with “shock and awe” tactics, as a former US ambassador to Yemen claimed.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher notoriously proposed that the field simply does not exist: there is no such thing as society, she claimed.
But, with Syria immersed in a brutal civil war that has claimed more than 130,000 lives already, Libya on the verge of collapse, and Egypt returning power to the army and proscribing the Muslim Brotherhood, Tunisia has been the only success.
The United States has made it clear that it intends to continue military patrols, both naval and aerial, in the waters and airspace being claimed by China.
In that sense, it is not “the end of the party” for emerging markets, as some claimed early last summer, when US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s suggestion of a possible “taper” of the Fed’s policy of quantitative easing triggered a “mini-crisis” in several of the more vulnerable emerging markets.
When the new anti-monopoly committee was first established in Russia, it began its life by making a list of potential monopolies it wanted to regulate, which included Russia's largest industrial enterprises, but also many bakeries, shops and bathhouses that it claimed were local monopolies.
But when it comes to non-tariff barriers, China’s record also does not seem as problematic as is claimed.
Yeltsin claimed that this would have to be in place before Nato expands.
He is “abandoning” China – which, it is claimed, enabled him to rise from extreme poverty to become one of the world’s wealthiest men – when the country needs him most.
Some analysts have recently claimed that this is because the pursuit of GDP growth, job creation, and financial stability, as well as the establishment of priorities when there are tradeoffs, clearly requires political decisions, which should not be made by unelected officials alone.
In Algeria, South Africa, and Northern Ireland, those in power invariably claimed that they had no partner for peace – until they made peace with the very “terrorists” they had spent decades vilifying.
And as early as 1939, Peter Drucker claimed in The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism, that “fascism is the stage reached after communism has proven an illusion.”
Throughout the trial, Bo flatly denied most of the corruption charges, often professed ignorance of the facts, and claimed to be unable to recall any details of the matters in question.
In his closing statement, he dropped a bombshell: he claimed that Wang Lijun, his former police chief and henchman (and a “vile character”), was secretly in love with his wife.
Transcripts were not released in real time on subsequent days, and they omitted some crucial details (for example, Bo claimed that the Party’s representatives threatened to execute his wife and prosecute his son if he refused to cooperate).
In order to defuse questions about the timing of the move, Jonathan’s office claimed that Sanusi had been under investigation for several months.
A similar suicide bombing two days later claimed the lives of 58 French soldiers.
There was nothing mysterious about Israel’s victory, he claimed; it was the result of a simple concatenation of circumstances.
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