Sentences with phrase «like claims are made»

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Meanwhile, Netflix (along with other big streaming players) is very protective of its viewership data, which the streaming service claims is made irrelevant by the fact that Netflix does not rely on ad sales like its traditional TV rivals.

A California Supreme Court ruling on Monday will make it easier for workers in the gig economy, like Uber drivers or TaskRabbit gofers, to claim they are employees as opposed to independent contractors.

Claims like, «That's just how business is done over there,» and «No one really gets hurt,» or «We've always done it that way,» or «That's the only way we'll make our sales targets,» are often false and seldom provide cogent support for the moral conclusions they are intended to support.

«Yelp has never done this and individuals making such claims are either misinformed, or more typically, have an axe to grind — whether businesses upset that Yelp will not remove reviews they don't like, or unscrupulous internet marketing «experts» trying to make a buck off of honest business owners with dubious reputation management schemes.»

«They either make up a program that doesn't exist, or they describe a government program and make it sound like it's their own or claim to have some special way to access it for you.»

Like all backlashes, this one replaced one kind of irrational extremism with another, and a timeless truth — that making something great and claiming it as yours are two sides of the same marketing coin — was the casualty.

«Beginning in November 2014 and continuing until his arrest in March 2016, CASPERSEN engaged in a Ponzi - like scheme to defraud investors, including his close friends, family members, and college classmates, by falsely claiming that their funds would be used to make secured loans to private equity firms and would thereby earn an annual rate of return of 15 to 20 percent.

In addition, this is an election that Republican candidate Donald Trump has claimed is «rigged,» and where he has urged his followers to go to «certain sections» of states like Pennsylvania and monitor the polls to make sure the elections are not stolen from him.

First, make sure all your local profiles are claimed — get on every social - media platform you can find as well as local directories like Google My Business, Yelp and TripAdvisor.

It was never possible that the 3G - enabled tablet was going to make the laptop computer obsolete, save the publishing world, upend traditional marketing and buy everyone a Coke like the evangelizers claimed.

But Ioannidis is concerned that «stealth research» — like Theranos» 12 years worth of development that has yet to produce a single journal article — is enabling new firms to «make big claims with very limited data.»

Workers claim it's the «small things that make a difference,» like free hot chocolate in the winter for anyone working outside in the cold.

The Wall Street Journal writes that the move, which is being made by brands like Tide and Cheerios as well, is a U-turn from latels cluttered with myriad claims.

It doesn't make sense, that's why people like JL Collins claim to withdraw 5 - 6 % of his NW per year.

I feel like saying that including the $ 300 in your hourly pay and claiming that your made $ 100 / hour driving Uber is somewhat misleading.

[3] The ousted leading pig is never seen again but he is said to be always around the corner ready to attack the animals, though like Core's claim that Bitcoin Cash is making people lose money, no victim is ever supplied.

This is one of the biggest complaints about Bitcoin that I hear and when they talk about claims like you made they just roll their eyes.

For what feels like the umpteenth time, Facebook is introducing another new plan to fight against the scourge of fake news that populates the platform, this time by making shrinking the size of links to bogus claims and hoaxes.

Claims to the contrary, like those made by Foundem, are untrue, Google maintained.

But when you make a wild claim that «they are receiving $ 135K a year in tax deductions» that are «above and beyond any standard deduction or exemptions», it certainly appears to be ignorant of factors like income - based phaseouts that kill the very exemptions you were complaining about.

Trump has made this claim many times, and Rep. Tom Reed, R - N.Y., echoed it in an interview with NPR: «When you have a country like China that is dumping steel... that is not sustainable.»

That would be like me refusing to drive Toyota made vehicles because there's a group of people somewhere who claim Toyota cars are made in magic fair caves by leprechauns.

But he has limits just like all of us, and to make a claim like that is silly.

You get guys like Nye, et al, who in their defense of evolution, make these wide sweeping claims that belief in creationism is somehow going to undermine the very foundations of science.

Unlikely enough that even entertaining the very idea is laughable on its face so I won't pretend like the christians make an even remotely logical claim but I am also very aware that I can't say, with 100 % certainty, ANYTHING about this universe.

When you make ridiculous claims like that to make your point, it just seems like you're utterly prejudice towards us.

Like everything in this modern world the burden of proof is upon the one making the claim.

You can't make fantastic claims like that, with NO proof, then just move on as if it were an equal claim to natural laws.

There is so much information for evolution that you have to purposely avoid any actual explanation of it and the evidence behind it to make any claim like you've done.

Why does it seem so surprising to religious people that we Atheists would be just as skeptical about someone making a claim like this as we are about the religion itself?

You can't claim anything as fact even though you like to in order to puff up your chest and make everyone else think you're intelligent.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

When you make the claim like that of atheists, the onus is on you to show that atheism was the REASON behind what happened, and the link is not there in most instances.

The reason why I (and potentially many other non-believers) react with cynicism and hostility to stories like this is that they demonstrate how very different the actions of the church are from the claims it makes about itself: infallibility, benevolence, selflessness, and godliness.

How can you make such an ignorant and blatant «over-generalization'to claim this fallacious If / then logic which goes like this... (If) you disrespect (a)(muslim)... (THEN)(they) kill 3,000 people., blah blah, blah... So... If I should go out and disrespect a muslim, which I wouldn't do, but if I would (hypothetically speaking) 3,000 people are going to die...?

I would still like to know why saying «I don't know» is anywhere near making a claim of a first cause or especially an agency of first cause.

One of the most persistent mistakes made by critics of the crop of celibate gay Christian writers that came together around the blog Spiritual Friendship is the assumption that when we use any language that they don't like (most commonly, though not limited to, the word «gay») to describe our experiences, we are using that language to make ontological claims.

It's like a whole society of blind people who have never known a sighted person making various claims about color.

They refuse to make absolute claims like a fetus is not a human being / person, and people have an absolute right to terminate a pregnancy.

I was made out to be a liar because how could this great leader, well liked speaker ever do what I claim (ed).

A former singer in a leading US Christian metal band has claimed that, like him, many «Christian» bands are made up of people who have lost their religious... More

CapAss, it is extremely unfortunate that you don't understand simple concepts like making claims and providing proof.

MyMainMan, one other point I'd like to make: If you're going to support Sagan's claim that athiests must presume to have much more knowledge than the rest of us, then the exact same must apply to Theists (those who believe in God).

When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

I know you religious lot like to claim I have somehow made myself god but really that nonsense is just an emperor's new clothes saying.

It's kinda like asking questions but already claiming to have the answers... it makes the questions pointless.

You may not like the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, you may not agree with their tenets, you may even feel you are such an expert on what makes someone a Christian and have the right to make the judgement on who is and who isn't, but spouting off inaccurate claims indicates no credibility, and inasmuch as Jesus said «thou shalt not bear false witness» I guess it doesn't leave you looking much like a Christian.

If we are accused of cribbing from people» and we make no claims to being terribly original» we would like to plead guilty to going back somewhat farther than twenty or thirty years.

To the collective gasps of their congregations, pastors are misrepresenting the study's findings by making claims like, «most Americans are universalists» or «a majority of evangelical Christians no longer believe Jesus is the only way to eternal life» or «most Christians think all paths lead to God.»

It's like a small scared child in a dark room claiming there is some monster out there in the darkness so you turn on the lights to show him there is no monster, but he just get's more scared claiming the monster must have hid in the closet or under the bed or anywhere you havn't yet looked, and when you do look and show them nothing is there it doesn't make them relieved, they get more upset because they now believe the monster is super fast or invisible or can teleport, because they know it's there, they can just feel it!