Sentences with phrase «about value claims»

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People have accomplished that by exploiting a giant loophole: The size of the tax deduction is based on a claim about how much the land's value is diminished by the promise not to develop it.

Let them know you're seeking their sincere testimonials to qualify and lend value to the claims you make on LinkedIn about your career experience, skill sets and specialties.

Independent Street takes a look at a story from the Richmond - Times Dispatch that claims that the values immigrants learned about «being thrifty, avoiding excessive debt, and relying on family support from native countries» are helping them ride out the recession.

And they're not just looking at product claims, they're looking closely at whether the values that a brand espouses are ones they themselves care about.

The statement of claim also alleges that Ferro massively diluted the existing shareholders by issuing Soon - Shiong shares worth about 13 % of the company (Tribune says «The stock sales to Merrick Media and Nant Capital were approved by the Board of Directors and will provide valuable growth capital to allow the company to execute on its new value - creating business plan).

In a matter of weeks, the land's value jumped from $ 3,500 and $ 6,500 per acre (its listing prices before the syndicators bought the land in two pieces) to about $ 20,000 an acre (the price at which the syndicators resold it to their investors) to more than $ 200,000 an acre (the claimed easement deduction).

«All of Facebook's actions were calculated and deliberate, integral to the company's business model, and at odds with the company's claims about privacy and its corporate values,» he argues.

Gizmodo reports that complaint shareholder Fan Yuan has accused the company of making «materially false and / or misleading» claims about its handling of user data, and failing to disclose the ongoing situation has reduced the value of Facebook shares.

All of Facebook's actions were calculated and deliberate, integral to the company's business model, and at odds with the company's claims about privacy and its corporate values.

We make no claims or guarantees about future house values or other housing - related trends.

With a stock selling below book, all you have to be right about is book value and the efficiency of your claim» Andy Redleaf

Finally, GM's quick repayment of the loans has whetted the appetite of some commentators (including DeCloet) for the ultimate repayment of the full government contribution. That would occur through the issuance of public equity by GM and Chrysler, creating a market for those stocks into which the government would presumably sell its shares. There is even some nefarious language in the rescue packages requiring the government to sell off its shares within specified, relatively aggressive timelines. The more I think about it, the less this makes sense — neither for the auto industry, nor for taxpayers. Why not hang onto the equity stake? If the companies recover and the equity gains market value, then the government will be able to claim that on its balance sheet (hence officially recouping the cost of its written - off contributions and creating a budgetary gain).

To all of you who keep claiming this was about «not wanting to lose to a girl»: Why can't we simply take what this kid said at face value?

They often imply positions about the truth value of religious and secular claims about reality.

But by shifting the emphasis to personal appropriation of the gospel message, they downplayed the importance of these supernatural claims about the Bible as such and reopened the issue of the value and importance of personal religious experience.

Economists who ignore these conditions and values may be very modest about their claims.

In the Gallup survey, for example, 90 percent of the public claimed to have thought about «living a worthwhile life» at least a fair amount (or a lot) during the preceding two years; 83 percent said they had thought often about their «basic values in life»; 81 percent gave the same response for «your relation to God»; and 70 percent gave similar answers for «developing your faith.»

Why should any rational adult accept at face value a claim that if made about anything other than religion, would be scoffed at as a lie?

For example, a proposition asserting a strong predicative claim about the general truth - value of the propositions Cretans normally utter can not itself be of the same status or order as they (even in the case when this «meta - proposition» is itself uttered by a Cretan).

A consideration of various claims about «Asian values» made in relation to the East Asian human rights debate.

And please consider that making specious claims about the physics and metaphysics of the universe has nothing to do with this «Truth» you (and I) value so greatly.

Proudfoot's dilemma presumes that just such a pure account of religious experience is claimed by all theologians who talk about religious experience; but this simply does not apply to American radical empiricists who assumed that experience is always already an interdependent combination of facts and values, objects and subjects.

Feigning a discussion about objective vs. subjective morality without qualifying values in the example in an attempt to get the casual reader to focus on the value the crafty writer wants you to adopt a an absolute truth — in this case how bad it would be to BBQ your grandmother, so that he can claim the the reader believes in objective «truths».

Yet this claim likewise makes no sense — for the simple reason that scientific method by definition has nothing to say about God, meaning, values or purpose.

We live in a society that wants to value everyones opinion right up until that person starts claiming any sort of exclusivity about their opinion.

Agnosticism is the view that the truth values of certain claims — especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims — are unknown and (so far as can be judged) unknowable.

Stapp's thesis about possible spin - values must not be confused with similar claims about the results of actual measurements.

My claim, in other words, was not about «values» in the abstract but about the values enjoyed by the creatures.

Agnosticism is the view that the truth values of certain claims — especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims — are unknown or unknowable.

While Sidney B. Simon at the University of Massachusetts and his colleagues claim that their values - clarification approach «does not aim to instill any particular set of values,» they certainly reveal their ideological bias toward the autonomous, bourgeois, rationalistic self when they talk about «learning a process for selecting the best and rejecting the worst elements contained in the various value systems.

Responding to reports that staff who left Oxfam in Haiti later joined other aid agencies, without their knowledge of the incidents, Christian Aid: «We are committed to living out our values of respect and dignity for all, and we will investigate any claims about any individuals involved in the Haiti incident to ascertain the facts, should they relate to Christian Aid and should we receive further information.»

Study author Clare Hughes said the claims deliberately misled consumers about the nutritional value of the product.

The Sun claimed Arsenal and Liverpool were both in for Butland, valued at around # 40million, but the 24 - year - old himself tweeted about the speculation in an attempt to put the story to bed.

If anyone is silly enough to take anything that Wenger says at face value then you have been in a coma for the better part of 10 years or simply a season ticket holder that gladly renews each year in May when the talking heads from corporate Arsenal start their usual blather about the transfer market and the inevitable success that lies ahead... stop talking Wenger and start doing the very things you and the rest of the suits keep spewing each and every year... just imagine how amazing this squad would be if we even did half the things that Gazidis claimed we would or if Wenger found a way to sign even a third of the players he said he could... that's exactly what Arsenal has become a «would have» «could have» club

Gazidis now handles the transfers, Gazidis has even claimed Wenger is clueless about players value...

Now that he has given enough time to think long and hard before recruiting a new man to his position, for a club like Arsenal youth Academy is very important, we can expect arsenal to recuirt someone who knows the culture of the club and the value we defend.And Arsenal.com claims that Arsenal will discuss with Brady about taking up some other role at the club.

You will be buying a diaper that has limited resale value, and hard to claim warranty, but if you're not concerned about that, they might be good for you.

In the Creating Shared Value report, Nestlé claims there were only 19 concerns about non-compliance with the WHO Code raised in 2011 and even less in 2010 and corrective action was taken in all cases.

But the fact that there is no claim made about the values of this data before 2015 (the year that the war propaganda would start if it were to follow the war) is very, very suspicious.

After this lie and its illogical implication were exposed he quickly shifted the goal post and claimed he was talking about «the value» of money borrowed when our debt has never been calculated through the fraudulent manipulation of figures that he attempted that day.

«If we take David Nicholson's almost unbelievable claim that he knew nothing about these major reports at face value, he has directed our attention to others to find out who buried these potent reports, putting Labour's political health above patient safety.»

This is a bit rich from an organisation whose news values seem to think that Labour's false claims, systematic lies about Labour's opponents and a one sided presentation of the public spending argument is what constitute journalism here in the UK.

Both cases involve claims about a valued worker with close personal relationships at the top of the party seemingly exploiting young people many rungs beneath them on the political ladder.

«None of this, of course, invalidates Buddhism or other religions» claims about the moral value and eventually life changing potential of its beliefs and practices.

Another Asia - based firm, Olam International, is developing a 250,000 - acre plantation on about 741,000 acres of land with the government of Gabon that Earthsight claims is on high - value forest that includes great ape habitat.

I know of no research to back up any claims about the positive value of textless books or illustrated readers in developing literacy skills.

Besides his smokescreen about «evenly distributed errors» (a phrase in which he has inadvertently provided us with an apt characterization of his whole book), Lomborgs further defense of his having presented an impossibly precise 43 percent value for a completely imprecise quantity is that he found it in somebody elses book: «Moreover, the 43 percent is actually described right off one of the best - selling college environment books by professor Miller is Holdren also claiming that he is wrong?»

What's behind his claims about the value of genome research and his plan to combat climate change?

Two he does mention, Rhodesian Man and Saldanha, he claims are Homo erectus, in spite of the fact that their brains sizes of about 1280 and 1250 cc are above the maximum H. erectus brain size of 1225 cc, which is in turn well above the value of about 1100 cc that Goodman claims is the maximum H. erectus brain size.

A simple, standardised labelling system would compel companies that make big claims to tell the truth up front about the nutritional value of their product.