Sentences with phrase «making grand claims»

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 ``.

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.

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

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

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

No matter how you slice it, this admission is reason enough for termination of both Wenger and Gazidis... this owner, who has personally poisoned every major sporting organization he currently owns in North America (Rams, Avalanche & Nuggets), has no regard for the concerns of the fans, just ask anyone in St. Louis, home of the once - vaunted «Greatest Show on Earth»... they had to endure numerous losing campaigns under his reign, before suffering the ultimate humiliation, as he moved the team to Los Angeles to quench his seemingly unending financial thirst... do you think it's a coincidence that ever since his arrival both Wenger and Gazidis have made grand claims each and every May to secure season ticket sales then fail to live up to the billing... they will do anything to make money except the very things that would make the most sense from a soccer perspective: buying a world - class striker since RVP, a Viera - like boss in the midfield and a dominant, physical CB in the mold of Adams or Sol... let's face it, they didn't even try

«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.

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.

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.

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

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

In the Career Objective, you will make grand claims about your abilities and expertise.

Not exact matches

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

Flo made a comment about recipe originality in respect to gluten free recipe development — how she has seen people take something that never had gluten in it to begin with, such as an omelette, and claim it as a grand new GF invention.

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.»

Indeed, the 41 - year - old who will make his latest comeback on Thursday after a 10 - month layoff, has never strayed from claiming he can capture four or five more grand slam events.

That was consistent with a claim made in an email to the CWA PAC attorney, James Reif, of Gladstein Reif and Meginniss, in which, Reif wrote to Adler, «you stated that the Richmond County Grand Jury will begin taking testimony on September 5, 2014.»

Silvers lawyers two weeks ago claimed that statements Bharara made about the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.

On Aug. 29, he tweeted out a link to his website, stevelevyresponds.com, a page he set up to counter claims made by grand jury prosecutors.

Here's the section of today's Welsh Grand Committee in which Wales Office minister David Jones made his claims about what he called the «limp and flaccid response» of the Welsh Government to business opportunities during the Olympics.

The lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — claiming public statements that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara made about the case «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.

The tobacco industry makes grand gestures in the direction of its competition, and claims that effective public health measures will increase the illicit and counterfeit tobacco trade.

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

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

Those who would claim that Malick has twisted the record, fabricated, invented need remember that we are talking about the work of an artist with an agenda far beyond mere reportage — if he manipulates legend it's only to make grander points.

It's such a good line that it makes you think McQueen must have borrowed it from real life, just as the writer of John Frankenheimer's film Grand Prix appropriated the former world champion Phil Hill's striking claim that he always put his foot down harder on the accelerator when he passed the scene of an accident on the track because he knew everyone else would be lifting theirs.

Yes - what I like about this is that Mr Wilkins makes no grandiose claims to revolutionising education or educating for the twenty - first century.Instead, the digital delivery day confronts a real problem (the grand prix) and simply offers a creative solution.

But my grand, unifying theory, the thing that determines how all the other stuff hangs together, basically rests on two claims: 1) there are enormous systemic inequities built into American public education, and 2) the decentralization of U.S. political institutions makes rapid policy - driven...

Stiffer springs, a small drop in ride height and tweaked anti-roll bars are among several changes designed to improve the handling, without — Bentley claims — spoiling the ride comfort or refinement that make it such a cosseting grand tourer.

Now, if Motor Authority is to be believed, a «reliable source» has claimed that the Hellcat - powered Grand Cherokee Trackhawk will make its official debut at the New York Auto Show alongside the Challenger SRT Demon.

The open world is so amazing that Hideo Kojima, the creator of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, claimed that trailers for Grand Theft Auto 5 made him depressed about his own upcoming game.

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).

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

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

The exhibition's circumspect title makes no grand or inclusive claim.

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

We can not change the world by changing our buying habits... I have always been deeply suspicious of the grand claims made for consumer democracy: that we can change the world by changing our buying habits.