Sentences with phrase «kinds of claims about»

For many years, I heard smokers say that the evidence about smoking and illness was hooey, that «scientists» weren't sure, that their grandpappy smoked until he died at 90 and so forth, I heard all kinds of claims about the granola police and the rest, and this was fed by the same crowd, by so called «scientists» working for tobacco companies, and the tobacco state politicians who fought every regulation and report tooth and nail and claimed it was all liberal propoganda and the like.

Can we the fans sue all these f * xktards making all kinds of claims about football transfers for all the heartache and anxiety they cause?!?

I could make all kinds of claims about this pesto.

This is sufficient for our faith — that we have a trustworthy guide — and this fits with our common sense in a way that other kinds of claims about Jesus do not.

Not exact matches

More than 56 % of American workers — about 60 million — are subject to mandatory arbitration clauses that cover all kinds of claims, including sexual harassment, according to the Economic Policy Institute's survey of nonunion private - sector employers.

Did it make any sense to treat claims about Clinton and Obama being literal, sulphur - smelling demons with the same kind of objectivity as allegations about email use?

«A stress test that claims that if the Dow falls by 60 %, the unemployment rate rises to 12 %, housing prices decline substantially more than they did during the 2008 recession, GDP declines by 6 - 7 % — and that all of that can happen and no bank will be in serious financial trouble or have any problem of being undercapitalized or illiquid — I kind of think says more about itself than it says about the health of the banking system.»

What it will need to overcome, if it is to succeed, is a kind of «can't do» attitude that has developed over the years, which has made the agency timid about tackling any issue that is likely to prompt strong industry resistance and all too ready to accept unfounded industry claims about the likely impact of regulations.

«People worry a great deal about retaliation when they bring forth these kinds of claims,» says Richard Salzman, a federal employment lawyer in Washington.

Maybe you don't have any embarrassment about claiming that Noah fed and cleaned up for many kinds of dinosaurs on his voyage.

My wife and I were last night called by a family friend to pray with her about her daughter who would disappear from home and when she re-appears, she is kind of confused, claiming to have been followed by a certain girl they met in school and tried recruiting her to devil worship.

The theologian, on the other hand, confesses the special character of the perspective he shares and is therefore more likely to be critically reflective about his assumptions and about the kind of justification he can claim for them.

As to all your claims about believing until you believe and then pretending to sort of believe until you kind of believe a little more, I've heard it all before... from various members of various cults, religions, and pop philosophies.

down about what exactly they mean when they make these kind of claims.

It's just too bad so many who claim to be His followers get caught up into some weird kind of political trip that really is all about the commercialization of something that can not be commercialized.

«11 By means of a process or an event (it is difficult to define it precisely), one who by all odds could otherwise claim epistemological privilege becomes aware of a complete reversal of the notion of «privilege» finds that an extraordinary kind of truthfulness (which is not «objectivity») attaches to the «partial» perspective glimpsed from the vantage of the struggle of the poor, the discriminated - against, the forgotten - about.

I still think a reasonable American goal might be a kind of Socratic openness to taking competing claims for truth — even or especially about the fundamental human issues — seriously as claims for truth.

It is the kind of reasoning I use to back up my claim about my wife or my children, and the model comes from interpersonal relations.

However, in inference pattern (2) no explicit claim is made about metaphysical doctrines of any kind.

This kind of consideration has even led some philosophers to urge the acceptance of scientific claims where acceptance involves no belief about the truth or probable truth of the statement itself.

This kind of rebranding makes about as much sense as claiming that, since it's based on long dead plants that originally got their energy from the sun, oil is actually solar power.

By faith however, I do seem to experience a kind of «certainty» or confidence but it is contingent on a whole matrix of relationships in progress and so while I can be passionate about the meaning I am making about those relationships, those relationships are always outstripping my meanings (claims) and revealing more about what meaning is possible.

This kind of watered down Judaism has put us on the edge of an Iran with a bomb, Obama in office and an Israel at risk.Religion is not about compromise that is a bumper sticker far too many have bought into.When the next great history of the Jewish people is written, they will write we did it to ourselves - trying to be oh so tolerant we put ourselves in a state where we ended up being unrecognizable to those who paid so much for us to lamely claim to be Jews in a primarily anti-semitic world pushing us to compromise.

Mr. Prothero, I know some will claim you broke some kind of rule for talking about religion but I applauded you for addressing the topic.

This is one kind of answer to the challenge of the logical empiricists who claim that there can be no verification of assertions about God.

Before I have a pint with 50 Ft Underwear, I got ta say that if Rubio sits on a science committee and makes a stupid claim about the age of the earth, then I have to wonder what other kinds of numbers he's screwing up.

``... you will be blessed... people will insult you and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil things about you... and that's just the ones who will claim to follow you...»

Many of those who are claimed to have been converted through the programs turn out to be people who were already Christian or who have been confused about why they were calling a broadcaster, or who called seeking help of some other kind.

The entire theory of the Obama campaign seems to be that the more outrageous the claim the better, because the more you repeat it the more the media will talk about it, and the lie will achieve a kind legendary truth.

When Dulles and Schonborn and many others make claims about the limitations of scientific method, this is the kind of background they are coming from.

First of all, think about what kind of claims you want to make on your packaging.

Two wins from the past nine league games is no kind of reaction to this crucial period, nor the form to back up Wenger's claims, repeated in the aftermath of defeat, about «great spirit» and «a strong attitude» within the camp.

It's too soon to talk about England call - ups but if Byram can replicate the kind of early momentum generated by Cresswell in his first few months at the club, and continue on a similar trajectory, he could eventually come to stake a claim on the right - back slot in Roy Hodgson or his successors» squads.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

The open secret about this kind of independent expenditure is that, since you can't legally ask for the money, you can credibly claim that you have nothing to do with it, and that your independence is immune to campaign money.

I could just as easily claim that the Obama Girl video contributed to the perception that Obama is charismatic and has the kind of «star power» that Democrats remember a Bill Clinton or John F. Kennedy projecting, and was thus a significant plus for the campaign (can you imagine a similar video about Chris Dodd?).

De Blasio said the Big Apple was struggling with «a different kind of homelessness» that's «more and more about economic reality» — a major reversal from previous claims that the problem was on the decline.

Founding members of Team Boris have avoided grumbling in public, but one MP claims that a close associate of Boris has been letting off steam about a «lack of maturity» and «the worse kind of opportunism».

We don't claim that there's some kind of invisible mass swing toward the left; indeed, the hollow results of Obama's promises have produced widespread cynicism about the possibilities of positive change.

In a series of papers, Firestone and his colleagues claimed various kinds of evidence for the hypothesis, including deposits of the element iridium (rare on Earth but abundant in meteorites), microscopic diamonds (called nanodiamonds), and magnetic particles in deposits at sites supposedly dated to about 12,800 years ago.

It would be shameful for me to claim to have experienced the kind of «overview effect» real astronauts talk about when they've been to space, the way they begin to see our planet as more precious and fragile and realize that we're all on it together.

Often, she is too kind to those beliefs: Plato did not believe that the world was changeless, the Stoics did not suppress personal affection, Hobbes was not an atheist and Descartes expressly denied that we should think of ourselves as «angels in machines» — though all these claims are believed almost as widely as similar falsehoods about King Canute.

«Phil Manning and his large team have spent the past three years applying every possible kind of modern analytical technology to the dinosaur mummy, and their core claims about the extraordinary envelope of skin around the specimen are confirmed.»

You can read about a lot of exaggerated claims or myths about this kind of food.

Paul, in summation, and further to a response that one of your readers «Lindsay» was kind enough to give me to an earlier question, about you claiming that «B» vitamins are «growth promoting» (I have since stopped taking the B vitamins as a result) are there any other vitamins that you might also feel contribute to energy excess?

@bjjcaveman I understand your passion about this, but in a mainstream book with a publisher they would want some kind of proof of claims.

i hcve 2 leg days one is squats sets of 20 down to 12 my goal is 6 to 8 sets till failure then leg press 20 to 40 rep sets 6sets then ham curls 10 to 15 reps 6 sets my next leg day is leg press or the icariann plate loaded leg press i do 50 to 60 rep sets with different foot positions every 15 reps, then 1 leg presses rest pause sets of ten only 10 seconds rest at this point i quit counting just go go, this leg press session is a half - hour not much rest and no knee pain I'm not going heavy it compliments my heavy squat day my other parts are done in similar fashion, i don't consider this a heavy light split, its more of a kind of heavy 1 day then moderate high rep next session for those that need a label i really feel this is awesome I've lowered my testosterone dose to 300 mg every 10 days remember im44 not 24 lol i can claim trt my point is i believe I've conditioned myself much more with michaels theories but to take my body to the next level i need to add more volume and excersise variance, i plan on competing within a year, thanks corey for your support i don know if we should post out training since its not according to michaels routine i would continue to hear about your ideas, progress, your like me always searching as you get older safety and longevity are paramount, at the same time we want to kickass and make gains its addictive if you want i can leave my number corey take care and i wish everyone good luck and good health!!!!!!

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It by Gary Taubes has fresh evidence for his claim that certain kinds of carbohydrates — not fats and not simply excess calories — have led to our current obesity epidemic.

«It can be tricky,» she says of contesting the status quo, «all too often claims about the benefits of getting married are made that can not possibly be supported based on the kind of research that's been conducted.»

I'm a kind of man who is really serious about what I say and would never say anything I didn't mean.I was happy with my wife until the fateful event that claimed her life occurred..