Sentences with phrase «of grand claims»

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.

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

These worries are the flip side of grand claims about synthetic biology's imminent ability to solve challenges in health, environment and energy.

Not exact matches

Woudstra claims he paid an extra $ 456 for another one - way ticket back to Grand Rapids on top of the $ 616 he spent on the initial round trip ticket.

Ten environmental groups including the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council are involved in the lawsuit, which claims that Trump doesn't have the authority to reduce the size of Grand Staircase - Escalante under the Antiquities Act of 1906.

The deal would seem to obviate the need to restrain Kalanick with a lawsuit, but sources said that Benchmark has not unconditionally agreed to drop their legal claims as part of a grand bargain.

But the grand jury report includes testimony that claimed Bevilacqua had insisted that the dismissal or resignation of priests accused of sexual misconduct be explained as matters of health, and that parishioners were not to be informed.

but the point is this: is it logical to claim one group has such grand sophistication while * simultaneously * arguing for that level of naiveté?

Although they may begin in priestly, mystical or communal religious traditions, fundamentalist - like movements seem to be found more frequently in those religions that claim to have received through revelation or great discovery a grand message of new truth, which must be delivered and which turns all ordinary understandings on their head.

In particular, it is typically difficult to accede to the grand assertion that an institution has as much ontological claim to the approbative status of «purposive entity» as does an individual.

In the first seminar, devoted to Dostoevsky's «The Grand Inquisitor» (from The Brothers Karamazov), participants will take up the Inquisitor's claim that human freedom was a divine error and that human happiness requires that the burden of freedom be transferred to the few.

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.

Among the many errors, confusions and misjudgments is the central claim that the Priory of Sion is of medieval origin, with a list of grand masters that includes Leonardo, his predecessor Botticelli, and the likes of Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo and even Claude Debussy.

These grand claims and promises are, alas, not met and thus are clearly overstated given that the authors find such meager evidence of health benefits of religion in the more than 1,200 studies and 400 research reviews they examine.

Congratulations to Lusty Monk Mustard, of Albuquerque, New Mexico for claiming top honors as the Grand Prize Winner in the Tasting Division, and Jungle Heat Sauces and Jellies of Ontario, Canada, as the Grand Prize Winner in the Marketing and Advertising Division.

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.»

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

Though desperate to add the lone missing piece to the career grand slam and, really, his Hall of Fame career, Phil Mickelson claims he has plenty of time to grab that elusive U.S. Open title.

Though she claims to have never played competitive basketball — or any sports beyond body building — when it comes to business endeavors and grand visions, Teresa Banks certainly subscribes to the theory of, «Go big, or go home.»

The Olympic bronze medallist and team - mates Anna Sloan, Vicki Adams and Sara Reid beat Russian skip Anna Sidorova's rink to claim their second Grand Slam win of the season - which also earned her the Grand Slam Cup and # 19,000 bonus.

No one would be surprised to learn — as Spieth already knew, according to Ferguson — that the term gained currency after Tiger Woods failed to claim the third leg of the same - season grand slam at the Open Championship at Muirfield in 2002.

She claimed a number of notable scalps at the Sainsbury's Indoor Grand Prix too, beating the likes of Netherlands» European under - 23 cross country champion Sifan Hassan, Russia's European Team Championship 3000m winner Elena Korobkina and Hellen Obiri, the Kenyan who outkicked Meseret Defar to win the world indoor 3000m title in 2012.

The Mexican claimed ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix weekend that he had «two options» for next year and he has now chosen to extend his stay with the team for what will be a fifth consecutive season.

According to some reports he could be out at the end of this season while others claim Brendon Hartley could replace him in the final three grands prix.

Presenting what he claims is the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, he attempts to challenge many of our Western assumptions about the origins and nature of democracy and political institutions.

Attacks on Cote D'Ivoire last Sunday in three hotels in the beach resort city of Grand - Bassam claimed 16 lives, while in January a similar attack at a hotel in Ouagadougou killed 28 people and injured a further 56.

«There are now serious questions over government claims to have a costed equipment programme and we must see evidence of their grand assertions,» he commented.

Besides the damaging claims likely to come out in the Walsh trial, a key Spota deputy, Christopher McPartland, is the target of a federal grand jury investigating allegations of a cover - up by the police department to protect James Burke, the former county chief.

Unfortunately, the Grand Jury accepted the politically charged testimony of this legislator and claimed «Financial Disclosure forms were used by a county official in a failed attempt to end the legislature's investigation into the ethics commission.»

The grand jury also inaccurately claimed that Judge Lama allowed me to file a state form, instead of a county form.

State Sen. Shirley Huntley desperately tried to cover up the theft of $ 30,000 in taxpayer money from her «sham» nonprofit as a grand - jury probe bore down on her, sources claimed and documents indicated yesterday.

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.

His photos have now become part of the bitter battle between 289 Grand's landlord and tenants who have desperately wanted access to their homes — if for no other reason than to claim treasured personal belongings.

Albanese believes that one can claim to be a progressive all they want, but the mayoralty is not really about political philosophy or grand rhetoric, but about management of city government and services; in other words: being the pothole mayor.

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.

Last year, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office sought authorization from Governor Andrew Cuomo's office to investigate the death of Edson Thevenin, claiming the investigation was incomplete when Abelove presented the case to a grand jury.

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 duo had wanted a hearing into their allegation that the government «leaked grand jury information» to the media in violation of secrecy rules — a claim federal authorities denied.

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.

HARTFORD — The office of the U.S. Attorney is convening a criminal grand jury to investigate claims of illegal fundraising by the state Democratic Party for the benefit of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

«We are not oblivious of what the Saudi Crown prince divulge of recent in an interview with Times magazine, where he claimed that Zaria massacre by the Nigerian Army was part of a grand design by his regime to curb the influence of Iran in Africa; even though the Saudi Authorities we know acted on the behest of its foreign sponsors namely USA, Britain and Israel.

There is, finally, a provision that would allow the MTA to create special districts in New York City and then claim the real estate tax receipts from those districts to pay for MTA projects, like a further extension of the Second Avenue Subway, the vastly over-budget project bringing the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal, and a proposal to bring Metro - North to Penn Station, by way of the Bronx.

At 9:15 a.m., the Parkash Tenant Coalition, a coalition of tenants from 15 of landlord Ved Parkash's buildings, publicly announces its formation, holds a press conference, and rallies with the support of NYC Public Advocate Tish James to seek justice, after they claim 2,369 violations in 11 of his 43 buildings, Bronx Housing Court, 1118 Grand Concourse, the Bronx.

State Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son are being probed by the US Attorney's Office, which has convened a grand jury and presented evidence about possible corruption in the latest claim of financial misconduct to rock Albany, sources said.

Lynch last month dismissed a separate motion by Maziarz's lawyers to have the case tossed on a number of legal grounds, including claims that there were «defective» grand jury proceedings.

Mindful of the grand implications of this claim, Weniger continues to monitor the Fermi data.

«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.

The Interior Department is facing a lawsuit from a Christian geologist who claims he was not allowed to collect rocks from Grand Canyon National Park because of his creationist beliefs.

In 2009 we won a grand victory for the Grand Canyon when Interior Secretary Salazar announced a two - year halt on new uranium - mining claims and exploration on 1 million acres of land near Grand Canyon National Park, with potential for a 20 - year withdrawal of those lands from most uranium migrand victory for the Grand Canyon when Interior Secretary Salazar announced a two - year halt on new uranium - mining claims and exploration on 1 million acres of land near Grand Canyon National Park, with potential for a 20 - year withdrawal of those lands from most uranium miGrand Canyon when Interior Secretary Salazar announced a two - year halt on new uranium - mining claims and exploration on 1 million acres of land near Grand Canyon National Park, with potential for a 20 - year withdrawal of those lands from most uranium miGrand Canyon National Park, with potential for a 20 - year withdrawal of those lands from most uranium mining.