Sentences with phrase «as critics claim»

An Arnprior man is the latest to join a lengthening list of Canadian homeowners who've found themselves facing prosecution - or persecution, as critics claim - for defending themselves against threatening intruders.

If they were really all as bad as critics claim, there would be nothing to fear from the indie revolution.

Can Focus Factor really make you smarter or is it just another overpriced multivitamin supplement as its critics claim?

Scozzafava, who maintains she is not as liberal as her critics claim, endorsed the Democrat in the race who ultimately went on to victory - the first time a Democrat won in that district in over 100 years.

The mayor often touts his neighborhood policing initiative, a 93 percent drop in the use of stop - and - frisk policing and a decrease in marijuana possession arrests even as critics claim an increase.

No matter how badly they go — and these contracts could cause deaths if they are as catastrophic as critics claim — it will be financially devastating to change them.

Is capitalism the exploitation of the «have - nots» by the «haves,» as some critics claim?

If condoms are 80 percent effective, shouldn't the Church» as her critics claim» be fully supportive of doing anything possible, including promoting condoms, as a real solution to stop the spread of HIV?

Since your initial appeal was for a more civil debate, is it now your contention that any criticism of gay people, no matter how it is phrased, loving as long as the critic claims biblical support?

Not exact matches

The aims of the movement were diffuse, though not as vague as critics sometimes claimed they were.

The company has responded with statements saying that it's not as dependent on drug price increases as critics have claimed; it has also pointed out that while attention has focused on changes in list prices for drugs, those prices don't reflect the actual cost for insurers, governments and other group purchasers, which typically receive discounts that aren't publicly disclosed.

Wilson, who has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration, goes right for the incendiary conspiracy theory with that claim, but it's an idea that's been echoed by more moderate commentators as well.

The drug company has been hit by allegations that it's inflating sales, but critics claim it may be hiding costs as well.

Critics say the proposal makes ambitious claims, such as being able to process millions of transactions per second, without explaining how.

Critics of the president have claimed that payments to Karen McDougal, left, and Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, amount to illegal campaign contributions.

This contention is not defeated merely by a critic's facile claim not to be conscious of any such nonsensuous perception of one's own «self,» or of anything describable as experience mediating one's experiences of trees, dogs, and fire hydrants.

Others, such as the chapter on «objections» to the claim that we can be certain of at least some moral knowledge, are written in dialogue form, opening the way for hostile critics to suggest that Budziszewski constructs and demolishes his own straw men.

Ali, a sharp critic of Islamist violence and of what she sees as Europe's limp response to it, claims that the rioters represent mainstream Muslim views.

you claim that «The Pope's critique of capitalism thrilled many liberal Catholics»..., then, scrolling down, you get in your lefty dig at Rush by contradicting the above claim with «In fact, Francis» predecessor, Benedict XVI, now pope emeritus, could be just as strong a critic of capitalism, blah blah blah..

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

The truth question looms large in postliberal theology, and especially among the critics, who maintain that postliberal theology is deficient as a way of rendering Christian truth claims.

It was derided as an «amnesty» bill, and critics claimed we had been there before, in 1986, with a measure that produced the problem we're now trying to remedy.

Nor is it cold, literal and impersonal, as its critics often claim.

The discovery of this fact about the Gospels is often popularly attributed to a contemporary school of scholars known as «Form critics,» but the fact was well established long before this particular school emerged and rests upon grounds considerably wider and firmer than those which support this school's particular claims.

Gay critics, of course, claim that groups such as Exodus and NARTH need to be liberated from their «homophobia.»

To begin with, «critics who claim it is untenable to suggest he saved five thousand Jews in an area with a Jewish population of just half that number have failed to take into account the huge numbers of migrant Jews from eastern or central Europe» as the Giovanni Palatucci Association noted.

Again and again in reading the works of these and other critics of the role of technology in the contemporary world, one comes upon the claim that at the core of the modern dilemma is the association of scientific and technological rationality with power, control, and domination — where these are seen as operative both in the natural and social realms.

According to the anthropocentric world view, heaven and earth were made for the sake of human beings, and the human being is the crown of creation; and this is certainly what is claimed by both its supporters and its critics as «biblical tradition.»

Whitehead himself ascribes personal qualities to God (consciousness, purpose, freedom, and creativity); his God is by no means an impersonal principle, as some of his critics have claimed.

So many critics have made one and the same objection to the doorway to immortality which my lecture claims to be left open by the «transmission - theory» of cerebral action, that I feel tempted, as the book is again going to press, to add a word of explanation.

Some critics claim he failed to warn other Roman Jews about what was about to transpire and about his own plans, describing this alleged failure to share his information with other Jews as a serious moral lapse....

(Raspet claims that Nectar tastes like Fruity Pebbles, though online critics have described it as «like vinyl, and latex, and the dust of my grandfather's ashes.»)

Critics such as Holt and Kirralie Smith, the Queensland woman behind the website Halal Choices, have claimed that halal certification fees could be used to «fund terrorism».

Mourinho has often come under criticism from fans and critics alike during his reign so far as United boss, with some claiming that the former Chelsea boss is underperforming considering the amount of money he's spent during his time at Old Trafford.

While Ozil has had his critics during his time at Arsenal, he remains highly thought of as well as the Independent claim United are keen to snap him up alongside their move for Sanchez.

Victory ensured that United didn't lose further ground on rivals Man City at the top of the Premier League table, but ultimately Mourinho still had a message for the critics as his side passed an important test playing the way that they deemed to be the best strategy to claim the win.

Along with fellow Commissioner Michael Scott, a host of elected officials and invited guests, the tandem took aim at critics, including some media members who have characterized the proposed park as being Mayor Richard Daley's multi-million dollar playground, and have claimed the Northerly Island project is being pushed forward at the expense of several neighborhood parks that have fallen into disrepair.

It is not just critics who claim this, but the party's leaders and supporters themselves tend to embrace this notion as well.

«Each of us should be our own sternest critic, and I recognise that my attempts to keep my personal life private were in conflict with my duty as an MP to ensure that my claims were in every sense above reproach.

Beyond just campaign finance, throughout Cuomo's tenure as Governor, Samuels has been a consistent critic, claiming Cuomo has not embraced the progressive ideals he espouses.

Schneiderman has been a sharp critic of Trump over the last several years, suing him over claims made by Trump University as well as over policies and regulatory changes implemented by his administration.

This isn't because we're «obsessed with billionaires» or «anti-enterprise» as some of our wilder critics claim.

Corbyn's internal critics are citing these results as further evidence of his unelectability, and claiming that Corbyn himself was a major negative on the doorstep in both seats.

Critics claim they want to keep hosts from «warehousing» units — using them year - round as illegal hotels rather than for permanent residences.

Charter - school operators claim critics are using the space issue as a ruse to fight new charters.

Critics claim the policy risks drivers» safety, as it potentially impedes emergency services» access to the motorway.

«Bill de Blasio wants Melissa Mark - Viverito to get as many votes as possible so that he can claim not only a win but a huge mandate and have even more leverage and power to push his agenda and diminish the power of critics and skeptics,» said one labor insider.

Critics claim authorities regularly underestimate costs as a cost - cutting measure.

Two separate legal challenges have been launched against the government's «right to rent» policy, which critics claim forces landlords to act as border guards.

Critics of the president have claimed that payments to Karen McDougal, left, and Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, amount to illegal campaign contributions.