Sentences with phrase «groups say claimed»

Since then, he has won a series of controversial elections that critics claim he rigged, including one in 2008 which he lost to now Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, sparking political violence that human rights groups say claimed over 200 lives.

The group said the claim «by enemies of the Niger Delta» might be because of Soyinka's «belief that the government of the day should understand the need to restructure and listen to the Niger Delta agitation positively».

Not exact matches

If you do claim early, those extra years will also be subject to taxation, said Ronald L. Myers, managing member at Fortune 360 Group in Plantation, Florida.

He also relies heavily on claims made by human rights groups and the United Nations in supporting his case against the Assad regime — claims that some skeptics have said are made with zero verification.

And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.

The group claiming responsibility for the breach calls itself The Impact Team and says it is in possession of details for some 37 million user account, including credit card information, home addresses, and other sensitive details.

This week, UnitedHealth Group, the country's biggest health insurer, said it would review and, if necessary, adjust «facility claims for the most severe and costly ED visits for patients enrolled in the company's commercial and Medicare Advantage plans,» the trade publication Modern Healthcare reported today.

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.

The motive is not yet known for the attack, though the FBI on Monday contradicted ISIS's claim that it was responsible for the massacre, saying Paddock appeared to have «no connection with an international terrorist group.»

The group's authors said that many of the incidents were merely just someone claiming to have seen a drone in flight, which is far short of being at risk of causing an accident.

They visited the offices of two companies EuroFX had claimed to work with, said the leader of that group, asking to remain anonymous.

Neither attack was particularly sophisticated, but South Korean authorities said North Korea was to blame, even though «hacktivist» groups - online activists who hack high - profile targets in order to spread political messages - first appeared to claim responsibility.

The group says that the legislation would, for example, allow an evangelical police officer to refuse to patrol a Jewish street festival or «an EMT could claim the law is on his side after refusing service to a dying transgender person in the street.»

Rotten Tomatoes said it would closely monitor reviews and posts for the movie, while Facebook reportedly removed a group that claimed to be planning an assault on Black Panther's Rotten Tomatoes score after similarly targeting the recent Walt Disney movie Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Cuomo said there was «no evidence of international terrorism» as terrorist groups like ISIS have not claimed credit for the bomb.

The California Medical Association, which represents doctors in California, opposes the measure because of that claim, and also because the group said the cancellation of drug purchasing contracts the state already has with pharma companies «would remove many drugs from the Medi - Cal list of pre-approved medicines — creating a new prior authorization hurdle for patients and their physicians.»

* ESURE: British insurer esure Group Plc on Thursday said claims related to a spell of extreme winter weather resulted in higher - than - expected costs in its home insurance business in the first - quarter.

«I will you tell that outboard theft from marinas, outboard theft from dealers has gone up dramatically,» said Dan Rutherford, director of claims and risk management for Maritime Program Group.

The group argues that the claims the plaintiffs made to the court are inconsistent with statements they routinely make to the public about their services, Hauptman said.

In its lawsuit against ListHub, Zillow Group is claiming that its acquisition of Trulia was not technically a «change of control» because the acquisition was structured so that Trulia remained intact as a corporate entity, Walmsley said.

«That is an explicit acknowledgment that this payment was about the election and was about hiding information from voters immediately before the presidential election,» said Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a legal claim over the payment.

Michael Spencer, an attorney for a group of smaller investors with more than $ 832 million of claims on defaulted bonds, said his clients haven't been able to negotiate directly with Argentina yet.

The Great White North Franchisee Association's U.S. branch, a group claiming to represent at least half of Tim Hortons» owners south of the border, said Thursday that it is suing Restaurant Brands International, which has headquarters in Oakville, Ont., over a contract clause forcing all disputes to be handled in a Miami court.

The suit's claim that Trump knew about the payment and that it was aimed at keeping the affair from voters «confirms what we suspected,» said Paul Ryan, a top lawyer with Common Cause, one of the groups that have lodged complaints with the Federal Election Commission about the payoff.

[4] Most worrisome is the warning of Janwillem Acket, chief economist for Julius Baer Group Ltd. (BAER), who claims that Switzerland could experience its own version of the subprime borrowing crisis, saying, «People who shouldn't be borrowing are now seriously considering entering the housing market.»

Mr. Anglin has a habit of saying what he thinks — which, despite the claims of the Wildrose Party and other right - wing Western Canadian political groups that's how elected officials should act, doesn't really go over that well in the real world of politics.

The Islamic State released an online statement on Sunday claiming responsibility for the attack and saying that 50 fighters died from two movement groups that were backed by the United States and traveling to fight the Islamic State: Failaq al - Sham and the Nour al - Din al - Zinki.

No - one claimed responsibility but the attack came a day after the military said it foiled a bid by the Islamic State group to expand its network into the predominantly Muslim country.

Claiming that just because there is not one monolithic group that it doesn't exist is like saying that the automobile industry doesn't exist because there's more than one company.

The group claimed Dolan allowed a prominent priest to resign, despite claims from at least nine men who have accused him of molesting them when they were boys, the group said.

When you say Chick - fil - a denies people the rights they claim for themselves though, I take a little exception to that... after all, what group doesn't do that?

In more specific ways the spiritual influence of group involvement was also apparent: of the people currently involved, 90 percent claimed they were better able to forgive others, 79 percent said they had been enabled to share their faith with others outside the group, 78 percent felt closer to God and 66 percent had experienced answers to prayer.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

A statement from the Islamic State group, posted on an IS - affiliated militant website on Monday, claimed responsibility for the shooting, saying a Muslim fighter attacked «a Christian temple» in Kizlyar.

Rome (CNN)- A group representing survivors of sexual abuse by priests named a «Dirty Dozen» list of cardinals it said would be the worst candidates for pope based on their handling of child sex abuse claims.

Frustrated with such fractiousness, another group in the church at Corinth arose claiming to have no mere human leader at all: «We belong to Christ,» they said.

In response, Urbana leaders said that they didn't deny the group an exhibitor spot because they are pro-life, but because Students for Life isn't or doesn't claim to a be, a religious organization.

International Christian Concern says the group of extremist Hindus surrounded their vehicle and claimed the Christians were attempting to forcefully convert people to Christianity by singing Christmas carols.

At one point, about 10 years ago, the head of a Holocaust survivors group paid for her time to accumulate a list of 1,000 Holocaust victims who had been baptized, after the LDS Church claimed the Jewish community was «overreacting to the problem,» says Gary Mokotoff, a Jewish genealogist in New Jersey who has been following the issue for 22 years, long before it made headlines.

The group claims tens of millions of followers around the world, but outside experts say the number is smaller, in the millions.

Rick Santorum's Indecisive manner when it came to JFK's speech proved that he's willing to say anything to sway a group of voters, whether it be by holding a resentful view on past presidents» demonstration of Separation of Church and State, or by claiming that any and all forms of contraception be outlawed.

* She claims she was excommunicated for asking questions although she posted the letters from the church to her website saying that she was actually being excommunicated for building up a group to teach false doctrine and to pressure the church to change its doctrine.

These remarkably contradictory, and unexplained, claims by one of the very few Australian creation «scientists» who has genuine scientific qualifications, calls into question whether anything said by this group on the subject can be taken seriously.

The charity said because of the legal ambiguity, the laws have been abused by radical Hindu nationalist groups to «harass and intimidate Christians while claiming to be under the auspices of state law.»

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America has perpetuated a «genocide on the black community,» says a group of African - American pastors who claimed Thursday the birth control and abortion provider has had a racist agenda since its beginnings in 1921.

Not to say that they don't think people and our groups can't be good, but that the church has no divine right to claim that it is good by default.

Authorities say Nagi traveled to Istanbul, Yemen and Syria last year, and — though he claims he doesn't support militant groups — his online activities says otherwise.

If once we get behind the prejudices and tastes of this or that group of modem Christians, and try to discover what the great continental reformers like Luther and Calvin — yes, and like Zwingli, too, for be has been much misunderstood and misinterpreted by many of those who have claimed to interpret his teaching — not to mention the English reformers with their rather closer contact with the Catholic tradition, we shall find that with varying emphases and in varying idiom, they were all of them intent on saying something very like the summary outline which I have just given.

A recent survey claimed that among a group of young people who called themselves Christian, forty five per cent said they did not believe in God.

@ observer: 1) if saying «i disagree with your position» means a group of people are going to attempt to get you fired, it is disingenuous to claim one is «free to speak» — especially when the company for which one works supposedly has NO stance on the issue.