Sentences with phrase «cap on assertions»

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The mayor's assertion that the cap on Uber's expansion was still possible was part of an effort to frame the city's retreat as a victory.

I will resist the temptation to put this next statement in 96 point type all caps bold, but do please focus your keen minds on this: the assertion that drugs are chemicals and therefore artificial, whereas supplements are not chemicals but natural substances, is a distinction without any real difference.

One longstanding assertion of proponents is that the bill would finally inspire China and India to act by proving that the United States is serious about stepping forward on climate; but to satisfy Americans worried about jobs pushed abroad by the domestic emissions cap, the bill includes an eventual border tariff on imports from countries that have not taken action to limit emissions.

The source document, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), has been under harsh scrutiny over the past weeks for a number of blunders, including the Climategate scandal, bogus claims about Himalayan glacier melt, false assertions The Netherlands are drowning, deceptive hysteria over conditions in the Amazon, exaggerations of vanishing polar ice caps, and fraudulent cover - up of Chinese temperature data.

Among Hayden's assertions were that: «Yes, the polar ice caps are shrinking... on Mars.»