Sentences with phrase «vague claims of»

Too often, complaints and demand letters feature vague claims of infringement that scare receivers into submission.

Even outside of the legal industry, vague claims of quality, experiences, success and ill - defined guarantees abound.

My understanding (as a properly skeptical scientist in a non-climate-related field) is that the community was unsatisfied with vague claims of natural variability and thus found themselves searching for missing heat.

In these opening rooms, the rather vague claims of Macel's Venice Biennale to being about artists, for artists, begin to take (very literal) form.

The union's Web site argues that the university based its objection «on the unsupported and vague claims of a few individuals.

Not exact matches

There were plenty of other complaints that the DEA's guidance was unclear or too vague — claims that proved to have some merit.

The aims of the movement were diffuse, though not as vague as critics sometimes claimed they were.

By some estimates, close to a third of all new U.S. patents are of questionable quality, often because the invention claimed is not new or because the patent is vague or overly broad.

Two forced strip - searches of a child by authorities at a Head Start program prompted by vague claims from an unreliable source could be considered child abuse, argues a friend - of - the - court brief urging the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to revive a lawsuit.

The authors of studies with titles claiming to point to «the heart of the matter» recommend vague but important - sounding measures like «strategic planning groups and reform.»

A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.

Christian churches (at least the fundamental ones I've attended) have been quite adept at deconstructing the ancient jots and tittles of Scripture only to reconstruct vague mottos that everyone repeats and claims to live by but no one can explain to those who ask.

Now we have vague claims from prehistory about the evolutionary development of social sympathy, or perhaps some chimerical implications derived from the most recent neuroscience.

Her careful approach, fortified with a keen awareness of just how difficult it can be to distinguish physical needs from vaguer but no less powerful emotional ones, also eschews the fraudulent claims and dangerous practices perpetuated by the «five - day miracle plan» style of American dieting.

So why pretend that it definitely is pro-life, then, especially when all you have as «proof» of that claim is a bunch of vague verses that you've taken completely out of context?

His therapy begins by identifying the problem, coaxing the vague, often unarticulated suspicion of religious belief into the form of a direct philosophical or theological claim, setting the stage for a vigorous discussion.

I may have made unsubstantiated claims in your view, which I'm still unclear of other than your previously vague remark that truth is bigger than scripture.

Food and Drink - Fall 2011 -(Page 58) > p PRODUCERS food law The Laws of the Label If you can avoid making vague or misleading claims on food labels, you might be able to avoid a class - action lawsuit.

Many of the companies that manufacture and distribute these wearables claim that privacy is protected, but this vague notion doesn't properly outline what measures are taken and whether encryption has been used.

If there's one thing that's guaranteed to make my blood boil it is hearing baby boomers make vague and sweeping claims about the use of technology by the current generation of parents.

This website, from Enviromedia Social Marketing, founded by Valerie Davis and Kevin Tuerff, lets consumers report brands that use vague of misleading claims about health benefits that make a food seem like a smart choice when it is not.

So, according to the council member with whom Corey Johnson claims to have worked to build more affordable housing, his involvement was vague at best, and James has no specific recollection of his participation.

Since the Siachen glacier region falls within the un-delineated territory beyond the last defined section of the Line of Control — i.e.; map grid - point NJ 9842 — Indian and Pakistani territorial claims are based on their interpretations of the vague language contained in the Karachi and Simla agreements.

The Transit Workers Union (TWU) has filed suit against Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City of New York, claiming that Vision Zero is unconstitutionally vague.

Secretary of the State Denise Merrill has been a high - profile voice repudiating Trump's vague claim that millions voted illegally in November.

Laws are vague on the subject, but some legal experts suggest treating the moon as just another frontier: The first to go to develop a financial stake in a patch of lunar land would be able to claim property rights.

(Not the much different, much more vague and general, list of symptoms claimed for «adrenal fatigue.»)

Unlike other dating apps, in which pretty much the only thing everyone has in common is a vague Disgraced Miramax honcho Harvey Weinstein is doubling down on his claim that he in no way sabotaged the careers of Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd

There was one paragraph on page 237 and a vague claim a page later «when the Bush administration had distributed a few competitive grants, [Duncan] had achieved many years worth of reform in a few months because his team had been so eager to win.»

Mitsubishi claims that the GSR model will go on sale in February, but the automaker is more vague about the MR model, saying that it will go on sale sometime in the spring of 2008.

It was a lot of the author making a vague claim then saying, «Let's look at the history.»

The firm claims this is made possible because of a new government program or other such vague claims.

The bottom line is that pet health care revenues are increasing at a double - digit rate and — despite somewhat vague claims by many veterinarians that they are not seeing more money in their pockets — businesses and individuals are getting rich off of it.

The details are vague and a little confusing, but the gist is that for $ 50 or $ 100, you can buy a Land Claim License that you'll be able to use to grab a plot of virtual real estate in Star Citizen someday.

At Climate Progress Dr. Curry complained about how she was treated by Gavin in an earlier thread here (April) concerning a raft of vague complaints she'd made, claiming he was «snarky.»

You have just made vague and nonsensical claims of fraud, without understanding anything you have said.

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When you claim your «hard» results are valid and promote them to influence public policy through the vague imprecision of «soft» science, another set of responsibilities apply.

-- Ridley is taking advantage of a slow holiday news week to push out two vague, unpublished, and un-reviewed claims.

The authors of this observation are Tom Adams and Ross McKitrick, in their report, «Demand Side Mismanagement: How Conservation Became Waste», wherein they also say the Government's official propaganda about spending billions to save billions more, when challenged, met with this answer: «The government replied «external financial audits were not performed on these programs,» and the rest of the information given was too vague to assess the government's claims.»

And instead of objecting to anything specific with my scientific claims, you come out against some vague unspecified «despicable tactics» I'm supposed to be using.

She's really building up quite a history of throwing up vague or demonstrably wrong claims, then running away when shown to be wrong....

The vague phrase, «lack of full scientific certainty» easily pushes science aside; then you steal the moral high ground by claiming to protect the environment.

Pseudoscientific concepts: Use of vague, exaggerated or untestable claims Over-reliance on confirmation rather than refutation Lack of openness to testing by other experts Absence of progress Personalization of issues Use of misleading language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience

Maybe you need another subset classification for group 4 — those that don't actually reject any of the science specifically and occasionally claim to accept it, but still drop in the occasional vague sentiment about skepticism being healthy etc or more research needs to be done as a reason for not supporting any attempt to tackle the issue.

Michael: Maybe you need another subset classification for group 4 — those that don't actually reject any of the science specifically and occasionally claim to accept it, but still drop in the occasional vague sentiment about skepticism being healthy etc or more research needs to be done as a reason for not supporting any attempt to tackle the issue.

First, from a transparency perspective, the Article 29 Working Party claims that Google's new privacy policy provides users with incomplete and vague information about the categories of personal data collected and the purposes for which it is processed.

Furthermore, since the «low life expectancy of African Americans» is something that is statistically true of a group of people, rather than something that is particular to any given individual, there is probably no one who would have standing to bring such a vague claim.

If there is no documentation of lawyer / client conversations, the claim then turns on credibility, and LawPRO's experience has been that courts are more likely to believe the client's more specific recollections over the lawyer's typically vague or non-existent memory.

The guard's suspicions were aroused by a vague description of the smell of marijuana, which he claimed arrived with the accused.