Sentences with phrase «much less its claims»

As she acknowledges, Israel has still not articulated any legal justification for the Al - Kibar attack, much less claimed that it represented a legal act of pre-emptive self - defence:

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It's possible that Constand may have benefited from the #MeToo momentum on Thursday, but it took an extra dose of courage for her to make her claims years ago, in an environment that was so much less accepting.

For C corps, they can claim more tax deductions than a partnership may be able to, write off benefits for employees (like health insurance) as business expenses, and are at much less risk of being audited as opposed to an LLC or sole proprietorship structure.

The Board was not informed of the Blanton Consulting Agreement, much less that it was a concealed settlement of Blanton's MSMB claims.

While Trudeau, Notley and other Kinder Morgan cheerleaders cite the Constitution for their claim that B.C. has no jurisdiction over interprovincial pipelines, Canadian courts have been much less categorical about paramountcy (the doctrine that federal law automatically prevails when there is a conflict between provincial and federal laws).

Other times, an actual lawsuit ensues, as when Trump retained attorney Marc Kasowitz to sue journalist Tim O'Brien for $ 5 million, claiming O'Brien libeled the notoriously image - conscious developer by asserting Trump was worth much less than he claimed.

For Pillar of Defense, the adjusted claims rate was 32 percent lower than that of Second Lebanon but 10 percent higher than that of Cast Lead, suggesting the batteries intercepted at most 32 percent of the hazardous rockets, and perhaps much less.

The deficit figures of 2009 were a source of great controversy in the past, as the then outgoing government under conservative Kostas Karamanlis was accused of fraud by claiming the deficit to be much less than it actually was.

If the reason banks fail is because free markets in banking don't work, how do you explain the lack of the problems you claim plague free markets in the much less regulated pre-1934 Canadian banking industry?

British supermarket chain Tesco is facing legal claims that it is paying women less than men for work of equal value, in a case that lawyers estimate could ultimately cost it as much as 4 billion pounds ($ 5.6 billion) in compensation payments.

When your spouse earns much less, you may be tempted to claim them as a dependent.

The affront to science is that it claims to be a theory yet it is untestable and much less elegant, less simple than evolution.

(A similar set of questions could be asked, mutatis mutandis, about Jewish involvement with Islam, a religion that also claims, although to a much lesser extent than Christianity, descent from Judaism.)

I get confused about what excellence can mean from institution to institution, given the American practice of grading colleges; even the much less than superlative schools claim to be excellent.

Much less can be claimed by way of consensus in this area, since not all contemporary theologians are convinced that it is necessary to reconceive the idea of God along process lines (i.e., as suggested by the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead as well as by thinkers such as Teilhard de Chardin).

They claim that one's commitment to a certain way of life is not contradicted, much less eroded, by a series of premeditated violations of that very way of life.

The evidence supporting the claim that Christianity was in South America by AD 50 is, at best, too flimsy to be deemed even suggestive, much less quasi-reliable.)

But though he gave up his claim to conscience, he by no means gave up his claim to material wealth; Homo Sovieticus was on average much poorer than Western man, but certainly no less consumption - oriented.

James Sanders, for example, a well - known and respected figure in American biblical studies, receives less than a page, since, Barr explains, «he does not do much to claim that [his work] leads toward an «Old Testament theology» or a «biblical theology,»» while David Brown, a British theologian of whom Barr says the same, is the subject of a substantial and highly laudatory chapter.)

Second, since the inherency of evangelical truth in the book is focused on its main claims, it follows that there is much in the text that is «lesser,» not a main claim, but probes and attempts over the generations to carry the main claims to specificity.

This declaration limits itself, as given its assumptions and method of proceeding it was inevitable that it should, to claims of such vagueness and generality that it would be hard for anyone to disagree about them, but equally hard for anyone to get excited about them — much less to structure his life around them or be prepared to die for them.

Though these new «miracle seeds» did require much more fertilizer and were often less resistant to diseases, it was claimed that gains in agricultural output were spectacular in India, Pakistan and Mexico.

In his memoirs, and throughout his life, Weizsacker never claimed to have alerted «the Vatican,» much less Pius XII personally, about the roundup before it occurred, and no Vatican officials have ever come forth to say that they were told of the roundup beforehand, let alone that they passed on such information to the Pope.

dalahast The bible clearly says: «Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night» (the moon is just as likely to be up during the day... it divides nothing) and again it says:» And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night» again the moon is up during the day as much as at night, so claiming it rules the night is wrong.

It is day's «cir needs to by lay claims not fully lay cosmological paradigms to so being infiltrations upon physicalisms, day's the fore I say controlling to so better - fractals of masses the meaning to by science and discommonerstoo nauseatings of infiltrating inward inter this and hen and much less.

To suggest, then, that religious believers (much less majorities who, qua majorities, also have a second claim on shaping public policy) are «wards» depending on the Constitution for their religious freedom and its scope is, to use Posner and Segall's words against them, «to turn the Constitution upside down when it comes to government and religion.»

What astonishes me is that anyone would publish these silly claims much less buy any of her books.

No person in it, and much less a woman, could dare to claim to be exceptional.»

One of the strangest claims often made by purveyors and consumers of today's popular atheism is that disbelief in God involves no particular positive philosophy of reality, much less any kind of religion or creed, but consists merely in neutral incredulity toward a certain kind of factual asseveration.

This claim is frequently presented, whether implicitly or explicitly, as a correlative to the idea that Christianity often as personified by Jesus or less frequently by Paul - was «goad» for women, paid them particular attention, or at least offered them opportunities not otherwise available, to caricature, the ideal of «the Feminist Jesus».60 In an admirable and scholarly article Leonard Swidler has marshaled historical evidences to show convincingly that Jesus was a Feminist.61 The politics of such a view is self - evident, for much study of the subject has developed within a context where women were struggling to establish a proper role for themselves within the contemporary church; to this end they have sought an egalitarian past to act as model for present polity.62

Justice John Paul Stevens (joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) stated: «Although much ink is spilled today describing the gruesome nature of late «term abortion procedures, that rhetoric does not provide me a reason to believe that the procedure Nebraska here claims it seeks to ban is more brutal, more gruesome, or less respectful of «potential life» than the equally gruesome procedure [D&E] Nebraska claims it still allows.»

The churches of America, though far from decadent, are doing much less effective work than they might be doing with their resources, and the major cause of the difficulty lies in failure to present the meaning and claims of the Christian faith in terms that seem vital to the common man.

If a biologist, historian, paleontologist, archeologist, astronomer or cosmologist made any of these claims, much less all of them, they would be laughed at.

Mr. Burrows claims that he defrauded the company much less, only occasionally paying the wrong fare.

Luther depicted the Franciscans as «snoring brothers who perchance have sometime seen a master of arts but have never known one personally... You never read anything, much less do you understand anything, and yet you claim to judge of doctrines.»

I would never claim that Christians even function as a unity, much less are accusable regarding the actions of some of the members.

Claiming 27 grams of protein (as much as a «4 oz steak or 12 oz of tofu»), four grams of fibre and 25 per cent of the daily values for essential vitamins and minerals, Vite Ramen also contains significantly less sodium than other instant noodles on the market: «capped at 25 per cent DV (daily value) per packet» (575 mg).

Of course it would be silly to suggest that winning any game, cup or otherwise, isn't good for the club, but let's remember just how problematic FA Cup success has been for this club... I'm certainly not going to suggest I didn't enjoy seeing Arsenal win, I'm a fan of this club first and foremost, but how bad are things when you find yourself secretly wishing that your own team lost so that just maybe real change would finally come... I resent this team for even making me feel such thoughts and it's going to take a lot of effort on their part to earn my trust again... this club has treated the fans so poorly that it has created an incredibly fragile and toxic environment, so much so that a «what have you done for me lately» mentality has emerged... fans rise and fall depending on the results of each game because we don't have faith in those in charge to make the necessary changes to personnel and tactics... each time we win many fans attack any dissenting voices and make unrealistic claims about the players, the manager and the potential for unprecedented success... every time we lose the boo - birds run rampant, calling for heads to roll and predicting the worst... regardless of what side you fall on, it's not your fault, both sides are simply overcompensating for the horrible state of affairs that have been percolating for several years... it's hard to take the long view when those in charge have lied incessantly and refuse to take any responsibilities for their own actions... in the end, we are trapped by the same catch - 22 that ManU faced upon Fergie's exit... less fearful of maintaining the status quo than facing the unknown, which was validated, wrongly or rightly, by witnessing the difficulties they have faced during this transitory period... to be honest, the thing that scares me most is that this team has never prepared whatsoever for this eventuality, which considering our frugal nature and the way we have shunned many of our most revered former players is more than a little disconcerting

If the Suns don't won't 25 (or 30), much less freaking 41 (which is.500 and very unlikely to sniff the playoffs), next year is everyone here still going to scoff at rcastillo for his claim that Booker isn't a winner?

That being said, I'm becoming increasingly skeptical about these claims that the NBA is so much better for physical development, and to a lesser extent skills development.

The former Chelsea striker has claimed that the club - record signing hasn't been treated as he should, featuring much less than he should considering his substantial fee, and that the player's confidence could take a hit unless things change.

Whether it's Gazidis making ridiculous claims about our supposedly successful transfer window, even going so far as to suggest that everything went according to plann, or it's Wenger having the audacity to speak about taking a much more proactive approach to the re-signing of players with less than 2 years left on their current deals; which on it's own is a nothing story, it's football management 101, but let's not forget just a few weeks ago he was proudly championing his «ingenious» plan of having his best players playing in the last year of their respective contracts.

Indeed, this prestigious tabloid is claiming that United make Tottenham's skin crawl so much that they are prepared to flog their Bulgarian striker to Barcelona or Milan for less money than they would get from the English champions.

we will end up with the guy from West Brom I can feel it in my bones, Wenger above all looks to save the club money and for whatever reason this is ALWAYS his priority like with transfer windows past he goes through ALL the flim flam of approaching clubs and players with 40 % less money than what they are asking for ONLY so it can be claimed later that «We tried to sign the player but it was too complicated and the seller was asking too much» same old Arsenal same old Wenger

Nevertheless, Mestre insists the Coutinho fee is much less than they could have paid, although Liverpool always denied claims in the Spanish press they had quoted 200m euros (# 176m) to Barca for a summer transfer.

I recognize that NOCSAE's decision may have some technical merit; and that it may be to some degree be necessary to protect the integrity of its helmet standard by weeding out what one football helmet representative characterized in an email to me as «snake oil salesmen» marketing supplemental padding products that, despite their overblown claims, likely do little if anything to reduce, much less prevent, concussions, and may, at least in theory, compromise the ability of football helmets to protect players as the manufacturers intended.

I've had that happen any number of times, I made a claim about something I «knew,» someone challenged me, I looked for a source to back up my point and discovered I was actually wrong, or at least much less right than I thought.

And also, Hannah Dahlen is an apologist for the murderous midwife Lisa Barrett, and claims that babies died not because Lisa Barrett was a dangerous halfwit with no skill and less insight, but because midwives were facing too much regulation and oversight.

It pointed out that younger people are much less likely to claim support for a party than older age groups.

(It seems likely that the main rise in public spending and reduction of tax revenue over the 2008 - present period has been due to economic contraction rather than policy change - unemployed people claim benefits, don't pay tax on wages and pay much less VAT on purchases.