Sentences with phrase «grand claims»

These credit repair companies target those with poor credit making grand claims of cleaning up their credit so they can get a car loan, credit card, or mortgage.

These worries are the flip side of grand claims about synthetic biology's imminent ability to solve challenges in health, environment and energy.

If management made grand claims about the profitability of the new plant, then that may be a red flag.

If you are willing to make such grand claims, you should also be willing to provide actual arguments.

«I won't make grand claims,» he says.

Those who made grand claims for Bernall started backpedaling.

It is a law «for the encouragement of learning,» as the title of the Statute of Anne 1710 puts it, «to promote the progress of science and useful arts» as the U.S. Constitution puts it (see below for Canada's grander claims in its recent copyright amendment).

Today it's published — for the first time — what it dubs a set of «privacy principles» that it says guide its approach to handling users» information, making grand claims like: «We give you control of your privacy ``, «You own and can delete your information» and «We are accountable ``.

Also in January Facebook published a set of privacy principles — including grand claims that: «We help people understand how their data is used»; «We design privacy into our products from the outset»; «We work hard to keep your information secure»; «You own and can delete your information»; and «We are accountable».

Finally, Lisa Diamond's studies are controversial because she makes grand claims based on small surveys of university students drawn from women studies courses, a very unrepresentative sample.

What that grand claim actually means is that it holds the record for the longest unspoiled streak of positive reviews as determined by Rotten Tomatoes, the critical aggregation website that classifies reviews by a simple «fresh or rotten» metric.

But grand claims always demand great scrutiny.

They resist grand claims, in favor of the transience of sound.

Other curators contract, demonizing anything successful or of the art world and embrace a kind of Curatorial Correctness — specializing in the rediscovery of the assistants of famous artists or other overlooked makers of the recent past (in other words, safer, quieter projects that make fewer grand claims about what is new or newly important).

Yet, we're increasingly hearing grand claims and predictions of robot - lawyers and coin - operated legal advice dispensers at the local Walmart.

Making grand claims for Galán's work may sound eccentric now that he has been largely forgotten... Continue reading →

They call themselves the «# 1 rated MILF dating site» and make a lot of grand claims.

«It would be hard on the basis of this study to make grand claims about how Lumosity doesn't work under any conditions, for anyone, ever,» says Kable.

Of course, I might enjoy the ironies more if his posh gallery setting did not automatically make such grand claims.

Also in January Facebook published a set of privacy principles — including grand claims that: «We help people understand how their data is used»; «We design privacy into our products from the outset»; «We work hard to keep your information secure»; «You own and can delete your information»; and «We are accountable».

Like all of us who convert to standing desks, they make grand claims for it:

I'm not arrogant enough to make a grand claim that I am the authority capable of teaching all of you about the Matrix movies.

It is an attempt to safeguard individual rights without making any grand claims about his place in the Cosmos.

American colleges invariably have their infighting ¯ and when it spills over into public view, conflicts of personality and battles over turf can clothe themselves in grand claims of principle.

(48) The grand claims of the temple turned out to be not true.

These grand claims and promises are, alas, not met and thus are clearly overstated given that the authors find such meager evidence of health benefits of religion in the more than 1,200 studies and 400 research reviews they examine.

And, you know, I was pretty nervous about making such a grand claim to begin with (even with everyone else's hearty endorsements of the same recipe), so I feel pretty comfortable knocking this down to the precisely accurate title — «The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies I've Ever Baked.»

«I think that what consumers can all be assured of is that if they see a grand claim like «naturally containing A2 protein», then clearly it's going to come with a premium price tag,» he said.

Some evolutionary psychologists have made widely popularized claims about how the human mind evolved, but other scholars argue that the grand claims lack solid evidence

Manufacturers make grand claims but the results don't always back them up.

Alfa also makes grand claims about the roll stability relative to competitors» crossovers and sedans, and while it might improve upon base models or previous generations they had on hand to benchmark, the bar is constantly changing and it would take a more direct comparison to agree that they have improved upon the new Audi Q5 or will measure up to the upcoming Volvo XC60.

We didn't give it much of a go but no grand claims were made of its abilities by Samsung so we suspect it's a somewhat token effort.

The Eat, Create, Sleep studio that released the game make no grand claims regarding its release.

And while Ms. Maloof doesn't make any grand claims in her paintings, her subjects» goofy, uncanny expressions and psychological states suggest a post-human (and postelection) art world in which animals seem purer, more attractive and sympathetic than we do.

Not so, Wallis tells me: «We're not making grand claims that there is a particular way of working.

He had little patience for the grand claims made about Abstract Expressionism.

I've written before about grand claims that 3D seaweed farms could heal our oceans and save our climate.

Interestingly, Wood and his team are not making any grand claims about the long - term potential of cloud brightening to stave - off global warming.

The fact that there was dissent within the climate science teams, that some people objected to the very basis of the grand claims of global warming, did not come out through the due process.

Meanwhile George Monbiot issued a withering takedown of some of the grander claims being made by biochar advocates, pointing out that large - scale biochar production could have massive impacts on land use, biodiversity and social justice.

I make no grand claims but wonder whether the willingness of clients to pay is that we have demonstrated to them that a technology - assisted model of engagement has real value for them, and not just in the financial sense?

Two above me have already pointed to the absurdity of taking an anecdote like this — even a number of them — and making grand claims about our system.

Ogle stresses that he is keen to ensure Spotify does not over-promise on its personalisation, highlighting Discover Weekly's relatively low - key launch: like «a friend giving you a mixtape» rather than any grand claims.

More significantly, Cloudflare used the launch to make the grand claim that 1.1.1.1 will boost internet privacy: