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If there were jobs reserved for southpaws, thousands of academics would suddenly claim to be lifelong lefties.
The moral claim of infants is more obvious and forceful than any arguments to the contrary.
The next day, dozens of farmers show up to claim their latest inducement.
Secondly, whatever the claim, it is beyond absurd to try to shape modern world based on thousands of years old maps.
No one can claim that, and to do so shows disregard for the true spirit of science and reluctance to budge from the status quo.
Of all the other storage technologies, only pumped hydro can make this claim.
Though the the results of the paper are worth talking about, the authors claim that they'll be putting the data online.
We don't know these vaccines work, so you can't make that claim.
NO nation can claim rights without acknowledging the duties that go with the rights.
The existence of a venomous archosaur is still an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence.
Because no plaintiff can claim ignorance of tobacco's hazards, its manufacturers cannot be held negligent for selling it.
Such details apparently contributed to the claim that the blog post violated students' privacy.
We have been obliged to arm ourselves to make good our claim to a certain minimum of right and of freedom of action.
The salvagers claim the posse wanted to extract money because the barge was in their waters.
Then the clerk took him to the other side of security, hoping that someone might be awaiting him in the baggage claim.
Only in ethics do you have a logical reason following the normative claim.
Please use the links to the right to file a claim for benefits, appeal a decision, or check on the status of your claim.
You're right on the complexity of the statistics here, but you're arguing against something the post explicitly declines to claim.
Other scientists are skeptical of even that claim, if not openly dismissive of it.
So in cases where firms claim that compensation is a trade secret, salary confidentiality would be protected.
The researchers claim that these tall villagers got some extra height from having married non-pygmies from surrounding villages.
Brant cannot claim that level of renown, but his résumé is not shabby.
Now it is one of a host of countries eagerly laying claim to swathes of the seafloor that may one day yield huge riches.
As such it is unseemly for the untrained to claim that certain sciences are less so than others.
There is no tested science in support of the claim of increased likelihood of severe weather.
During the nineteen-forties, health-care reformers tried to make the claim that there was a precedent for health-care legislation.
Universities are not so isolated from the tragic past, but they still make a claim to speak with eloquence across the centuries.
Now more than ten years later, the claim rings hollow.
No nation can claim someone who was not a part of any nation.
Split into quadrants, each section is engraved with the seal of the state, laying claim to its parcel of disk.
Advocates of the mortgage-interest deduction, for instance, claim that it increases homeownership rates.
Second, and more important, there is the inspiring nature of the claim.
Filing a first claim for disability compensation can be a stressful experience.
His defenders claim that he has never been convicted, but this is untrue.
Something made the initial report claim the bus was full of elderly people- instead of hockey players.
The amazing intricacy of human cognition should serve as a caution to those who claim the singularity is close.
And, if they make a scientific claim, show the evidence that supports that claim.
Most salons that make this claim either don't get the same results as keratin treatments or are secretly using formaldehyde.
But what interests me here is the descriptive claim about stress on the adverb.
Whoever serves well and says nothing makes claim enough.
Yet there are people who claim that humans actually lived alongside dinosaurs.
It means not letting them claim to do our work for us.
We can't claim to fully understand it, but the evidence in favor of the basic picture is extremely strong.
Payment of benefits will be decided by your claim manager.
To claim a degree one did not earn is to sin against an entire system.
Claim is not followed by an infinitive except when the subject of claim is also that of the infinitive.
Each of the thinkers' respective countries wanted to stake a claim in what was one of the biggest advances in mathematics.
Despite all of this, twenty-two of the thirty teams in the league claim to have lost money this past season.
And therefore, the claim that the current warming period is unprecedented can not be established with any certainty whatsoever.
When your vehicle is damaged or stolen, one of the first things you may have to do is file an insurance claim.
Presented without any supporting evidence, that claim smacked of political opportunism.
Though they ll claim science is observation, that can tweak, if it fits the equation.
They had it setup as if you were queuing through a check-in line with a little makeshift baggage claim area on the other side.
As you'd know if you were as much of an expert as you claim to be.
To claim otherwise is a fateful attempt to triangle the circle.
Some record lecture audio, and claim to listen to them on their iPods.
Now the cause was lost and they had no right to claim anything.
Both you and the sailor would have equal claim to being right-the motion of the rock is relative to whoever is observing it.
If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.
My claim concerns functionally identical beings, so it is irrelevant to point to people who function differently.
The inventors claim all the laser parts came from inexpensive consumer electronics.
As with any insurance contract, however, there is scope for dispute about when a claim can be made.
How can anyone claim to discovering some place that is already occupied.
Users can also decide to claim results after the fact, attaching a name if an effort has been well-received.
We've all heard this kind of claim, from real scientists as well as crackpots.
If this site is unavailable at any time, it does not eliminate your responsibility to file your unemployment insurance claim.
Officials are quick to claim that there is nothing white about it.
Detractors claim that this rosy scenario overlooks unresolved issues.
That's an astounding claim and one that many physicists will want to pour over before popping any champagne corks.
It's an argument of lack of evidence to support the claim.
In the meantime, they were later to claim in court filings, he was effectively stealing the company out from under them.
They could copy and paste their partner's claim, for instance, into a box on the form.
But the style fits the subject so perfectly as never to claim attention for itself.
Claim a free gift at the gift shop when you have your guide stamped at each stop on the self-guided tour.
And you have some banking experts who can, perhaps, claim to be among the few economists that warned us about this crisis.
Adding more samples could easily demonstrate that there are more clusters than they claim, or fewer.
Intermixing the two formats on the claim is not allowed.
To claim full citizenship, though, required prodigious multi-tasking skills.
The claim isn't testable, so the money can be said to go towards providing the service.
Your claim can often be processed more quickly if you send a copy of your own medical records.
In such a situation, anybody can claim to be holier than money.
Others, however, gain a catastrophic momentum and often claim lives.
The birds start breeding earlier, which lets them claim the better nesting sites and increases breeding success.
Mainstream medicine supports the diagnosis, but some doctors claim the evidence behind it is questionable.
One might claim that all literature tends to the miniaturized condition of haiku and the maxim.
Researchers cast doubt on that claim, and the story has been amended accordingly.
He repeated the administration's claim that it was opposed to all torture.
Maybe the guy should have watched the next video before submitting his claim.

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