Sentences with phrase «rather radical claim»

Answering his own question, Buterin made his famous and rather radical claim: «there will be no «killer app» for blockchain technology.»

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The second part of the book is theological rather than critical or historical, and it advances the claim that it is precisely the most radical expressions of the profane in the modern consciousness (Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Freud, Proust, Kafka and Sartre) that can be dialectically identified with the purest expressions of the sacred.

Not only do such actions represent a radical departure from past times in America, when government refused to legitimate ethnic - group rights and claims, but they also encourage a polarization rather than unification of our diverse population — a trend that can result only in the eventual creation of de jure ethnic and racial geographic enclaves and political parties, with the appointment and election of individuals mandated along racial, religious and ethnic lines.

If, in a few years» time, the SNP is legislating for a citizens» basic income and has embarked upon a thorough reworking of the fiscal status quo then it would have a good claim to be «radical» and «bold», but hinting at such widespread reform is rather different from actually implementing it.

At the MDU we have long argued that only radical legal reform will halt the rising costs of claims but recent legal changes have made the problem worse rather than better.

In truth, the Orange Book was rather less radical and rather more pluralistic than its editors claimed at the time.

Rubinstein writes: «Chia, Cucchi, Clemente, Mariani, Baselitz, Lüpertz, Middendorf, Fetting, Penck, Kiefer, Schnabel... these and other artists are engaged not (as is frequently claimed by critics who find mirrored in this art their own frustration with the radical art of the present) in the recovery and reinvestment of tradition, but rather in declaring its bankruptcy — specifically, the bankruptcy of the modernist tradition.