Sentences with phrase «value the claim by»

However, perhaps it is worth taking at face value the claim by Peter Mandelson in his plea for «no more Falkirks» that he is «trying to defend the rights of grassroots members of the -LSB-...]

[57][309] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a statement clarifying that the «EPA has not tested a Chevy Volt and therefore can not confirm the fuel economy values claimed by GM.»

Thus, it could vindicate its own values claims by treating individuals as autonomous subjects, rather than objects who may be treated instrumentally as bargaining chips in a negotiation — a position which has unfortunately already been displayed by the UK political leaders who will soon sit on the other side of the negotiating table.

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People have accomplished that by exploiting a giant loophole: The size of the tax deduction is based on a claim about how much the land's value is diminished by the promise not to develop it.

The First - Time Donor's Super Credit will increase the value of the existing tax credit by 25 % on cash donations of up to $ 1,000 if neither the taxpayer nor their spouse has claimed the credit since 2007.

Although shareholders have yet to approve the deal, the banks would «re-pay shares at a pre-defined value in next few months, avoiding the risk of uncertain evolution of huge claims by shareholders and clients,» Maria Paola Toschi, global market strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, told CNBC on Tuesday via email.

It optimizes and automates asset location, which places highly - taxed assets in your IRAs and lower - taxes assets in taxable accounts, which the service claims will increase your portfolio value by an estimated 15 % over 30 years.

Since the growth is not measured on a per share basis, Rosenstein claims management can drive up its payout by acquiring new production volume, even if it means diluting the value of its shares to purchase Rice's wells with stock, which Rosenstein believes is undervalued.

Y Combinator, led by Paul Graham, recently claimed success with 172 companies over seven years, which now have a combined value of $ 7.78 billion.

Rigrodsky & Long, P.A. announces that it is investigating potential legal claims against the board of directors of Analogic Corporation («Analogic» or the «Company»)(NASDAQ GS: ALOG) regarding possible breaches of fiduciary duties and other violations of law related to the Company's entry into an agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Altaris Capital Partners, LLC («Altaris») in a transaction valued at approximately $ 1.1 billion.

The statement of claim also alleges that Ferro massively diluted the existing shareholders by issuing Soon - Shiong shares worth about 13 % of the company (Tribune says «The stock sales to Merrick Media and Nant Capital were approved by the Board of Directors and will provide valuable growth capital to allow the company to execute on its new value - creating business plan).

What follows is meant solely as an illustrative example of how a value investor might think; we make no claims or recommendation to buy or sell any stock or security nor is the information you read necessarily still accurate by the time you see this article.

But most make the claim and then disappear or claim to add value and actually decrease value by micromanaging, meddling and controlling.

It has even recovered the value of a $ 2 billion preferred equity investment into the holding company of bankrupt Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista by claiming assets including a Colombian gold mine and a key port.

Specifically, the CFTC alleges that the defendants committed fraud by soliciting customers based on false claims regarding MBC's value, trade status, and usage — even apparently going as far as to say that MBC was backed by gold, which the commission refutes.

Investors know that the name of the game is capital gains, but the prospects for favorable tax treatment are enhanced by claiming that it is the buildings — that is, depreciable capital — that rise in price, not the land's site value.

Often, the seats that you can claim with the fewest number of miles are hard to come by and have the lowest real value.

The Company records advertising and marketing development fund programs with customers as a reduction to revenue unless it receives an identifiable benefit in exchange for credits claimed by the customer and can reasonably estimate the fair value of the identifiable benefit received, in which case the Company records it as a marketing expense.

Mr. Paulson defended his «troubled asset relief program» (TARP) by claiming that «illiquid mortgage assets... have lost value... choking off the flow of credit that is so vitally important to our economy.»

Company CEO Travis Kalanick's call on Sunday for an internal investigation into a sexual harassment claim by a female engineer is the latest in a litany of controversies that have dogged the largest of unicorns, one with a market value of nearly $ 70 billion and climbing.

Panda — Refers to a series of updates released by Google to its search engine ranking algorithm that are intended to discourage people who create large amounts of mediocre content in an attempt to claim many keyword rankings without generating much value for users.

Reports from Gartner Inc. have claimed that the blockchain technology will help add a value of $ 176 Billion by 2025.

Finally, GM's quick repayment of the loans has whetted the appetite of some commentators (including DeCloet) for the ultimate repayment of the full government contribution. That would occur through the issuance of public equity by GM and Chrysler, creating a market for those stocks into which the government would presumably sell its shares. There is even some nefarious language in the rescue packages requiring the government to sell off its shares within specified, relatively aggressive timelines. The more I think about it, the less this makes sense — neither for the auto industry, nor for taxpayers. Why not hang onto the equity stake? If the companies recover and the equity gains market value, then the government will be able to claim that on its balance sheet (hence officially recouping the cost of its written - off contributions and creating a budgetary gain).

But by shifting the emphasis to personal appropriation of the gospel message, they downplayed the importance of these supernatural claims about the Bible as such and reopened the issue of the value and importance of personal religious experience.

Only by recognizing that the claims of Jesus» perfection are untrue can they serve to encourage Christian values.

From Peirce's claim that we can make our ideas clear by considering their conceivable practical effects, to James's notion of truth's cash value in experiential terms, to Dewey's own view of the practical character of reality, the message seems to be that philosophy has more to offer than a therapeutic stance toward social issues and a rhetorical presentation of new suggestions.

This has been widely recognized, but we wish to go further and claim that the actuality required is provided supremely by, the living immediacy of the finite occasions, the exclusive sharpness of the very act of decision whereby one value becomes actual.

«Life - style» justifies any way of life, as does «value» any opinion» (p. 235) Attempts by Freud and Marx and their followers to reshape our understandings are not only wrong, Bloom claims, but boring.

This account of awareness is empirical because it is based on the immediate experience of the causal efficacy of the physical world; it is radically empirical because it claims to sense, in addition to the data for the five senses, the objective embodiments of values, and it senses these values «intuitively» — that is, physically by, for example, a sense of aversion or a sense of attraction.

The claim that we are imposing our values, says the president, «is refuted by the fact that every time people are given a choice, they choose freedom.»

But from either angle, the people should check their own agenda, values, and morals before debating or voting whom should be president merely by that president's «claimed» religious status.

For example, a proposition asserting a strong predicative claim about the general truth - value of the propositions Cretans normally utter can not itself be of the same status or order as they (even in the case when this «meta - proposition» is itself uttered by a Cretan).

Hegel does try to salvage the intrinsic value of nature by claiming that in the process of providing for the liberation of spirit, nature itself is thereby liberated, for nature «in itself is reason» (PN 204).

It moves glacierlike through human history, carrying with it the debris of outworn values and stubbornly trying to break through everything in its path by the sheer weight of its dogmatic claim.

A fourth problem is liquor advertising, whose misleading and value - subverting nature should be made clear by viewing its claims in the light of established facts.

Yet even today, when the Faith of Christ is decayed among the nations, and when Christianity seems to belie the promises of Christ, and to be passing into the dead world of human religions, one more among many, even today, whatever individual values we hold sacred, whatever sanctity we claim for the personality of man, whatever freedoms, above the rut of biological materialism, we try to salvage from the ruins of a culture, all these are the droplets which remain within that chalice of the Christian Faith dashed down by the nation.

It is an atheistic movement which claims to cultivate moral ideals of the same value as those defended by the church.

What concerns Berlin is the very old problem of the One and the Many Only very recently in our cultural history» since «the second third of the eighteenth century,» by Berlin's reckoning» have we developed a true appreciation of the claims of the «Many,» of diversity and pluralism in the realm of values.

But what if we chose to give to others in a way that called us to rearrange our life to accurately reflect the values we claim to live by.

Proudfoot's dilemma presumes that just such a pure account of religious experience is claimed by all theologians who talk about religious experience; but this simply does not apply to American radical empiricists who assumed that experience is always already an interdependent combination of facts and values, objects and subjects.

This would be an incredible claim to make today, but in an age when mythology was rife and factual accuracy was not exactly valued by committed religious zealots, which the original authors clearly were, the chance that the gospels we have today accurately reflect the life of Jesus is virtually zero.

This week, The New Yorker claimed that people in the Big Apple are creeped out by Chick - fil - A's Christian values.

Although the empowerment of its own members is an important goal for every marginalized social group, by claiming an authority based in epistemic privilege the group reinscribes the values and practices used to socially marginalize it by excluding its voice, silencing it and commanding its obedience to the voice of the dominant group.

Yet this claim likewise makes no sense — for the simple reason that scientific method by definition has nothing to say about God, meaning, values or purpose.

Nonetheless, it can be claimed that the Christian world of the High Middle Ages attained such a homogeneity of culture, one so permeated by Christian values and beliefs (as then understood), that it can be quite properly referred to as Christendom: that is, a domain or realm where Christ was believed to rule.

Mainly through worship, education and social activities, these congregations appropriate symbols and generate new ones, claim and revise traditions, defend and bridge social boundaries, articulate and invent meanings and values by which to make sense of changing circumstances.

That is not to say there shouldn't be Christian or other religious values present but it is to say that people shouldn't be conned and public opinion shouldn't be manipulated by claims of righteous values — as we have seen, it is just too easy to fake and sway people to support what may not be in their best interests based on having a cloak of religion.

Lamin Sanneh reviews a new work by Leslie Newbigin in which Newbigin claims the focus on the dichotomy between «knowledge» of so - called objective facts and «belief» in so - called subjective values is a dichotomy that is rationally indefensible.

Rather, my point (made clear by succeeding paragraphs) is that we should not take new communitarians seriously when they claim they are merely reinforcing existing egalitarian values.

Jesus does not support his demand for love by referring to the value of other men as human beings, and love of enemies is not the high point of universal love of humanity, but the high point of overcoming of self, the surrender of one's own claim.