Sentences with phrase «claims its status as»

The city fuel economy is pretty dismal, and just on aesthetics alone it would be difficult to claim status as a tree - hugger if seen on a roustabout around town in the LX 570.

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It may set a precedent in other British lawsuits as well — for example four messenger companies are currently being sued by bicycle messengers who claim they should have employee status.

The data results of a Social Security number verification can contain the state of and approximate year of the number; status as an invalid, nonissued, or misused number; status on whether the number has been used to file a death claim; address (es) of the user; employer (s) of the user; the year of birth or age of the user.

Last year, the HBO documentary Going Clear drew in millions of viewers as it went in - depth into controversial claims from former members and people associated with the church, while also investigating the religion's tax - exempt status.

Uber's claim is that, while Liss - Riordan's clients may want employee status, at least 400 fellow drivers do not and therefore, they shouldn't be treated as a class.

Serena Williams cemented her status as one of the greatest female athletes of all time in tennis by claiming four consecutive major titles from late 2014 through this summer.

In the first two sections of the IRS Withholding Calculator, indicate your filing status, whether or not anybody can claim you as a dependent, how many jobs you and your spouse (if applicable) have, how many dependents you will claim on your return, and whether or not you or your spouse will be 65 or older on January 1, 2019.

Many taxpayers claim the standard deduction, which varies depending on filing status, as shown in the table below.

There are many factors that can impact the process, such as how the borrower repairs the property (ie: self repair or contractors); who the investor is on the loan and what their guidelines are; and the status of the loan when the claim is received.

Specifically, the CFTC alleges that the defendants committed fraud by soliciting customers based on false claims regarding MBC's value, trade status, and usage — even apparently going as far as to say that MBC was backed by gold, which the commission refutes.

If our records show that documents proving age or citizenship / lawful alien status have already been submitted for an earlier Medicare or Social Security claim (such as Disability, Supplemental Security Income, etc.), you do not need to submit the documents again.

If these would - be immigrants aren't actually filling jobs for which out - of - work Canadians are available — as claimed — then why are they being denied the opportunity to gain permanent residency status?

In November 2012, JPMC paid $ 296,900,000 to the SEC to settle claims that the bank misstated information about the delinquency status of mortgages that served as collateral for a securities offerings underwritten by the bank.

Emerging markets start to get some traction as middle class seeks recognitions and claim a higher status through their lifestyle.

It is important to distinguish here between the socio - economic consequences of the claims that are advanced on the basis of the victim status of blacks (such as the pressure for racially preferential treatment) and their symbolic, ideological role.

These claims have been based, above all else, on the status of blacks as America's historical victims.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

This meaning is taken from the context of his immediate reply, just as if you said to «what you do, you do because of you mother» my reply being, «you can insult me or my brother and be forgiven but insult my mother and you won't ever be (of course I'm a moral and would because my mother is not the Holy Spirit) if you said a pastor's claimed miracle is fake «He isn't the Holy Spirit» remember Jesus being the son of God (no pastor has His status) said you can be forgiven if you blaspheme me.

It seems that your own atheist brethren can; t seem to grasp it either, as they have claimed to «worship the god of reason», and have demanded tax - exempt status, and are demanding that atheist «deacons» frequent military chapels...

It is thus crucial to the communicative enterprise to take an egocentrism - avoiding stance that rejects all claims to a privileged status for our own conception of things as bound to our own particular historical position in the world's processual scheme.

It is ironic that the very activists who emerged from this new environment developed the strategy of claiming victim status through the use of such symbols as the pink triangle.

This puts Hartshorne where he wants to be, because to intuit (prehend) actual occasions as they occur is to intuit (prehend) them formaliter, as they exist in the immediate subjectivity of concrescence, and since God is everlasting, and experiences all actual occasions formaliter, actual occasions are preserved everlastingly (in their full, warm, subjective immediacy) in the consequent nature of God.6 This interpretation resolves the question of the status of the past, the problem of how the past is given as datum for concrescing actual occasions, and the question of a ground for truth claims about the past.

In particular, it is typically difficult to accede to the grand assertion that an institution has as much ontological claim to the approbative status of «purposive entity» as does an individual.

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).

Whereas Burge assumes that God gave Israel its «tenant» status in the land, Ellis sees such an «ontological» claim as the very thing that must be given up by all sides — Jew, Muslim and Christian — if what is valid and enduring in these traditions is to be recovered.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

About the comparative moral status of the «early embryo» and the «later - term fetus» he is just as confused as the many American people for whom he claims to speak.

This thinker, whose name I shall not disclose, said that he was becoming more and more convinced that there was «something in the older metaphysical — he called them «ontological» — claims; at the moment he was much concerned, he said, to find a way of giving more than linguistic status to such propositions as «personal God», for it appeared to him that these statements somehow pointed to a truth about the universe, about the nature of things, that must be reckoned with in any honest description of the «way things are».

Finally, as I have already noted, the assertion of values left open the possibility that those of any class or status might claim to embody them.

The third decision concerned a 1992 statewide referendum in which the voters in Colorado adopted an amendment, known as Amendment 2, to their constitution prohibiting laws that make homosexual orientation, conduct, and relationships the bases of special entitlements to minority status, quota preferences, and claims to discrimination.

With the spotlight now on them, peak industry groups have been reeling in their defence of the status quo with such outlandish claims as hens in cages are «safe from the weather».

this club, under his tutelage, has ruffled a lot of feathers over the years and now it's coming home to roost... his arrogance has rubbed many the wrong way, but winning provided the perfect tonic to cure all ills... whether largely self - created or a byproduct of all the media attention, Wenger seemed to embrace his cult - like status, which would eventually be his downfall... he claimed that his club was different... more of an extended family than a footballing club and only those with what he deemed as «special» qualities could even hope to join such an exclusive club... these «qualities» were hailed by most, especially as the wins kept rolling in... but with exclusivity comes a certain amount of cockiness, which can be somewhat healthy in a highly competitive environment if it comes from a honest place... it wouldn't take long for the fans to embrace their bespectacled former economics professor, going so far as to suggest he could do no wrong... but this fairy tale couldn't last forever

The cyclists particularly shone in Australia as Elinor Barker — already an Olympic gold medallist and three - time world champion — confirmed her status as one of the sport's elite by winning the women's point race in the velodrome before turning domestique on the road to help Dani Rowe claim a hard - fought bronze.

Last season Sanchez banged in 30 goals and claimed 19 assists to cement his status as Arsenal's most devastating attacking force.

It will take a bit more, it feels, to convince Mourinho to reinstate the Frenchman's status as a starter, but the performance on Wednesday against a foe he seems to enjoy playing against would go a long way in staking a claim for a place on the team sheet on the weekend on a regular basis.

It's not as easy (easy in football terms) as chucking down 40 million for someone like Ozil; he'd been doing it for years, already claiming the world class status in his spell at Real Madrid.

Para (10) The application of nutrient profiles as a criterion would aim to avoid a situation where nutrition or health claims mask the overall nutritional status of a food product, which could mislead consumers when trying to make healthy choices in the context of a balanced diet.

To avoid this to happen again, Xie Zhenghua in Tianjin proposed that issues such as MRV, the claims of small islands or the status of developing countries «Should not be put forward at international occasions» but rather be dealt with in smaller fora.

However the institution of the following policy changes can reduce both inter-state tensions and the associated recurring costs: a concerted effort to increase transparency in each nation's territorial claims; a US declaration on the status of disputed territory conflicts in its mutual defence treaties; and internal enforcement of international agreements such as the Code of Conduct.

While claiming to personally hold the view that moderation is a compulsory demand of age at certain times, Olaleye noted that Adeleke has obviously has attained that age, combined with his new status as a senator.

The former two - term governor from New Mexico claims he's been «shafted» by the GOP in spite of his status as being a popular and successful governor of a state and a resume that included budget cuts, a balanced budget and economic -LSB-...]

Jowell, who quit frontbench politics after the Olympics last year, claimed the BBC felt remote from the lives of ordinary people despite its status as a cherished national institution.

There is as yet no statistical evidence that MPs were more engaged or involved with committees post-Wright, despite the many claims made about the higher status and significance of select committees following the reforms.

Wilson suggested DiNapoli's pursuit of the BP suit might be «political grandstanding,» questioning whether the fund actually owns as many shares as the comptroller has claimed (19 million to 17.5 million) to qualify the state for lead plaintiff status.

Opponents claim that ICE can also detain nonviolent illegals — as if authorities should just ignore their illegal status.

Gary Orfield, professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning at UCLA, said opponents of the UT admission policy claim there are nonracial alternatives that do the job just as well, including the 10 % plan that UT now uses as its first phase for admission; approaches using socioeconomic status rather than race as a factor; and special outreach and recruitment efforts.

Analysis of a wealth of new data contradicts an earlier claim that LB1, an ~ 80,000 year old fossil skeleton from the Indonesian island of Flores, had Down syndrome, and further confirms its status as a fossil human species, Homo floresiensis.

In fact, although Osborn did misidentify the Nebraska Man tooth as a primate, he deliberately did not make any claims to its status as an ape - man.

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While some claim that we always hide things at the beginning of a relationship, trying to put our best foot forward, the internet makes it easier to hide such things as facial expressions, income, marital status and even criminal records.