Sentences with phrase «first heard the claims»

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.

Not exact matches

If you hear from someone claiming to be from the IRS, though, first make sure that the contact isn't a scam.

Fred Upton, a Republican congressman from Michigan and chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, put his finger on the larger issue facing governments worldwide at a recent hearing: «Was Solyndra just one bad bet by an administration rushing to claim credit for the first loan guarantee, or is it the tip of the iceberg?»

We need to move back beyond the first pages of Genesis to the reality of God Himself, a God who brings being out of non-being (a metaphysical claim if I've ever heard one!).

The ideological climate is beginning to change and it is possible to make oneself heard through other means and to claim the first victories as in the case of the MAT, a victory which is yet to be confirmed.

For the record, contrary to kermit's claim of a single witness to the miraculous plates delivery, the first 3 of the 11 witnesses to Smith's plates claimed they also saw the plates delivered by an angel while hearing the voice of God affirming that Smith's translation was indeed an act of divine revelation.

the followers of anyone only hear what they want / wish / choose to and from there start to believe on their own terms not on what they were following in the first place... yet they claim to be devote followers!

When I first heard Torrance lecture at Fuller Theological Seminary in 1981, he was also lecturing at Caltech, and he claimed that the scientists understood his realistic theology better than the theologians!

While I was home I watched an episode of Dr. Oz and he claimed that chia seeds can help people lose weight, it is not the first time I've heard that.

We were pretty skeptical about a wellness trend called earthing (or grounding) when we first heard about it, but it turns out that biophysics can back up the claims.

Haven't heard you utter one positive about the club you claim to support since you made your first appearance on here a few months ago.

Umm pretty sure that puts a serious claim to world - class if i've ever heard one... Ozil — World - cup winner... One of the first names on the german team - sheet.

And not just any news: major outlet, UOL Esporte claims to have heard directly from Alisson's camp that Liverpool is his «first choice» this summer.

I've heard of all these and have been known to utter a few of the less favourable ones when I have tried a recipe for the first time with what claims to be a Toddler Friendly recipe but instead isn't really and is just a recipe that will let the toddler hold a spoon and stir a bit.

This isn't why I posted, to debate the glucose tests, but because this is the first time I've ever heard your particular claim, I'm curious..

The Oldham East and Saddleworth MP was alleged to have claimed Liberal Democrat challenger Elwyn Watkins had tried to «woo» Muslim extremists on the first day of a five - day hearing.

Deciding that the wrongs done to the claimants might possibly represent a breach of their qualified human rights (privacy) but probably not their absolute rights (degrading treatment) he decided that the human rights claims should be heard first before the IPT, which is where Ripa insists such cases should go.

Fast forward to November, she claims the first time she heard about this new arrangement was a few days before we voted on the budget, a budget that had nothing in it for safety net charges.

«Those hon. Members in the Chamber a couple of days ago will have heard my hon. Friend the Member for North East Somerset (Jacob Rees - Mogg) claiming that his constituency gave the country the first king of England.

Mr. Silver said he first heard about claims made against Mr. Lopez in January.

The government's lawyers are due to lay out their argument in more detail tomorrow but at an initial hearing earlier this month, they claimed that a first tier tribunal only has the power to identify that legislation is incompatible with the Human Rights Act - not to rule on a case on that basis.

Supporting commercial lines businesses Progress on fixed fees for costs of noise - induced hearing loss claims Support for fair compensation for mesothelioma sufferers Expansion of the Insurance Fraud Bureau's scope to commercial liability Campaigning for solutions fit for our future Our Flood Free Homes campaign Forward thinking policy for data and cyber Engaging Government to support the role of income protection Delivery of Flood Re, a world first solution for affordable flood cover Fighting fraud Partnering with Government on the Insurance Fraud Taskforce Renewing the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department Securing new insurer access to the DVLA registered owners database Influencing sensible regulation On Solvency II, we: Secured changes to secondary legislation Clarified treatment of deferred tax Negotiated a favourable calibration of the EIOPA's fundamental spread Supporting insurance businesses Pushing for sensible development of global capital standards Securing better targeted tax legislation Managing the impact of international financial reporting standards.

I certainly find it very odd to hear them claim that the first - past - the - post voting system «gave us the Iraq war» and then prescribe a change which would have given Tony Blair an even larger majority...

For his part, Slobodzian claimed he was unaware of any such text, and the questions from the Rockland County Times were the first he heard of it.

Charter school advocates who haven't been pleased by Perkins claim that they have «opened the doors to an insidious form of segregation» and is holding hearings (the first is on April 22) are also down with the idea of backing a primary challenger against him.

The hearing is the latest installment in a legal battle that stretches back to 1994 when the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association first claimed the city's intersections were not ADA compliant.

The trio get a little lost, and claim to have heard things on their first night camping out.

When Yahoo asked the actresses about their thoughts regarding the claims of whitewashing being leveled at the film, Portman and Leigh said this was their first time hearing about it, but that the critiques were entirely valid.

It's not as good as Sundance first claimed nor as bad you've probably heard.

-- Bootstrap Bill (Stellan Skarsgard), a character who we only hear about in the first film — who informs him that Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) is coming to claim a debt which is owed to him by Jack.

The court's refusal without comment to hear the appeal in Evans v. Jenkins (Case No. 07 - 1210) means that the parent's suit will go forward on a First Amendment retaliation claim.

The unanimous decision, which marked the first time the high court had heard a case on the subject, clears the way for Laramie County School District No. 1 to pursue its $ 200,000 negligence and breach - of - contract claim against the architects of a school that began to crumble less than 10 years after it was built.

The test claim process could be heard as soon as May, with a potential first - time filing date as early as January 2016.

But the union and other supporters of the lawsuit have made no such claim, and Lefkowitz reminded the court that lawyers for the plaintiffs had a chance to make those claims when the case was first heard in circuit court, but declined to do so.

It is disheartening to think this can be tolerated in a country that claims to value the first amendment... For those young people from solid families who are not allowed to hear differing opinions, or read about people different from themselves, their closeted viewpoints of the world not only deny them compassion, but also skewed visions of what's real.

This isn't the first time we've heard this rumor but today BGR is claiming their source has seen a bonafide T - Mobile branded Curve Touch that will be launched at Blackberry World in Orlando next month.

The next stage should be a small claims hearing date, although this might not happen as the company could offer a settlement first.

Since it was our first claim it took a little bit longer to hear back.

Charles Darwin wrote of polydactyl cats in his book «The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication» published in the 1850's «I have heard of several families of six - toed cats, in one of which the peculiarity had been transmitted for at least three generations» pre-dating claims elsewhere that the first scientific recording of feline polydactyly was in 1868.

* Here is that hearing that took place, it's lengthy but first the claims are made, the panels give their respective views based on their background and relation to the industry and where they see it going followed by Sega (represented by Bill White) and Nintendo's Howard Lincoln answering the challenges and facing off against each other, challenging each companies approach to the industry, worth a watch, history in the making ~ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nD-Afpg4P2U

The first exhibition showcasing his mature style, in 1970, was generally panned; Guston's newfound crudity was compared to the work of R. Crumb, a cartoonist the painter claimed he'd never heard of, but who shared the same big - foot comic - strip influences.

One of the first foolish remarks I heard on this topic was a comment on an RC thread claiming that the explosion of the Mt. St. Helens volcano had emitted more CO2 than all human activity, ever.

This is the first time we've heard the claim that environmentalists blame «traditional religion» directly for environmental degradation.

First of all, my comment on the intelligence of the British public related to their ability to hear a claim such as global warming could cause more severe winters and understand that just because it sounds counter-intuitive it shouldn't necessarily be dismissed out of hand.

This is the first time I've heard someone claim the Koch brothers feel AGW is a threat and demands a strong policy response.

The AGW claim «The Sun produces very little heat and only a little of that reaches Earth» is a variation I first heard here in these discussions from someone supporting AGW fake fisics which claims in its basic form that there is «some invisible barrier like a greenhouse glass which stops direct heat from the Sun, thermal infrared, from entering the atmosphere», but obviously embarrassed that he can't produce any physical explanation, mechanism, for this stupid idea, now says that is a CAGW claim and the more sophisticated AGW claim says that «the Sun gives off very little longwave infrared and we only get a little bit of that».

This is the first I've heard of any of this, even the post let alone the paper it claims to defend against its critics.

Many deserving claims are denied at the initial phase and at the first stage of appeals, known as a Request for Reconsideration, only to be approved upon a hearing by an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ).

David was part of the counsel team led by Sam Wordsworth Q.C. that conducted the «general issues» hearing and the first two batches of individual claims (including claims in relation to cultural and artistic items).

In his written observation and when asked during the hearing, Mr Gusa confirmed that he does not claim to have fulfilled the conditions of lawful residence during his first period of residence when he was supported by his children (between October 2007 and October 2008), because he considered the support he received as limited and insufficient for claiming lawful residence under 7 (1)(b) of the Citizens Directive.