Critics claimed that the Oil-for-Food Programme was responsible, under the blockage of dual-use equipment, for preventing Iraq from repairing the water purification and medical systems destroyed by the initial sanctions and during 1991 Gulf War, and others challenged the programme on the grounds that it would not permit Iraq to import the food and medicine necessary to prevent millions of easily preventable deaths.

Von Sponeck, speaking in University of California, Berkeley in late 2001, decried the proposed " Smart Sanctions ", stating, " What is proposed at this point in fact amounts to a tightening of the rope around the neck of the average Iraqi citizen "; claimed that the sanctions were causing the death of 150 Iraqi children per day ; and accused the US and Britain of arrogance toward Iraq, such as refusing to let it pay its UN and OPEC dues and blocking Iraqi attempts at negotiation.

He also claimed that it was his opinion that the sanctions were not an effective deterrent.

In the same article, the Post reported that some FBI investigators believed Rudolph may have written letters that claimed responsibility for the nightclub and abortion clinic bombings on behalf of the Army of God, a group that sanctions the use of force to combat abortions and is associated with Christian Identity.

The referendum has been claimed as meaningless by foreign nations including the US and Turkey, and the European Union announced fresh sanctions against key regime figures.

In 2007 they claimed victory as the European Union imposed new sanctions against the regime.

Zinn argues that attacks on the US by Arab terrorists ( such as the September 11, 2001 attacks ) are not caused by a hatred for our freedom ( as claimed by President George W. Bush ), but by grievances with US foreign policies such as " stationing of U. S. troops in Saudi Arabia ... sanctions against Iraq which ... had resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children ; the continued U. S. support of Israel's occupation of Palestinian land.

He states that " The sharia ( or Islamic law ), it is claimed, sanctions the death penalty for any adult Muslim who chooses to leave the faith, or apostatise.

In the days following the match, the Football Association claimed that FIFA regulations prevented them from imposing disciplinary sanctions as no booking or sending off was issued.

Although SPEAK only sanctions legal avenues of protest, the campaign has been accompanied by acts of intimidation, incitement, and violence, usually claimed by the Animal Liberation Front ( ALF ).

Murphy had opposed the idea that an individual mind with personality as an entity would survive, instead he claimed the mind and all of its memories would merge itself into a larger field of consciousness.

A counterpoint to this argument would be that neither Samaria nor Syria where these refugees were claimed to have originated from were actually ever part of Assyria, but were colonies inhabited largely by Hebrews, Nabateans and Arameans respectively.

They pointed out that astrologers have only a small knowledge of astronomy and that they often do not take into account basic features such as the precession of the equinoxes which would change the position of the sun with time ; they commented on the example of Elizabeth Teissier who claimed that " the sun ends up in the same place in the sky on the same date each year " as the basis for claims that two people with the same birthday but a number of years apart should be under the same planetary influence.

In modern law, the title would have fallen into abeyance between the two daughters of the second son, and nobody else would have been able to claim it even if the abeyance were settled ; in 1597, the grandson of the third son claimed the title and its precedence.

Late in 2010, some Congressmen ( after the four-day Bicentennial holiday was proved successful ) asked for a law that would forbid the opening of supermarkets and department stores on Sundays, however retailers claimed that Sunday shopping made about 20 % of their weekly sales, more than other day of the week, thus preventing the law from taking place.

Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians " in the special effects department at Universal Studios in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: ' We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that.

The government claimed that privatisation would see an improvement in passenger services.

Henry Bostock claimed to have heard the pirates say they would head toward the Spanish-controlled Samaná Bay in Hispaniola, but a cursory search revealed no pirate activity.

Although there were many IRA men — both Official and Provisional — present at the protest, it is claimed they were all unarmed, apparently because it was anticipated that the paratroopers would attempt to " draw them out ".

Davy further claimed that elements that were then believed to be gases, such as nitrogen and hydrogen could be liquified under the right conditions and would then behave as metals.

Ironically, one of the stronger arguments against this position came from an individual highly respected by their theological quarter, Bliss Knapp, who claimed that Eddy understood through her lawyer that these consent clauses would not hinder normal operation after her decease.

In that book, Malthus claimed that population growth would outstrip food production, because population grew geometrically, while food production grew arithmetically.

The first episode was aired on 9 December 1960 and was not initially a critical success ; Daily Mirror columnist Ken Iriwin claimed the series would only last three weeks.

If a nation continues on this path without resistance, Gini claimed the nation would enter a final decadent stage where the nation would degenerate as noted by decreasing birth rate, decreasing cultural output, and the lack of imperial conquest.

Most of the rumors circle from the same source of Saint Jerome who claimed “ Cyril was an out and out Arian, was offered the see on Maximus death on the condition that he would repudiate his ordination at the hands of that Bishop ”.

Eastman claimed that " life was a big battle for the complete feminist ," but she was convinced that the complete feminist would someday achieve total victory.

Constantine would claim to have the same close relationship with the Christian God as Diocletian claimed to have with Jupiter.

In June 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there .< ref > In October 2007 the all-party Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey.

Additionally, Benton claimed in the early 1990s that he would commit suicide at the age of 33 to " mirror " a lifespan opposite that of Jesus Christ ( however, he passed that age in 2000 and did not commit suicide, rebutting in 2006 that these statements had been " asinine remarks " and that " only cowards and losers " choose to kill themselves ).

Given the limited budget for schools, it is claimed that a voucher system would weaken public schools while at the same time not necessarily providing enough money for people to attend private schools.

King Philip II of France claimed that certain properties in Normandy belonged to his half-sister, Margaret of France, widow of the young Henry, but Henry insisted that they had once belonged to Eleanor and would revert to her upon her son's death.

Inhabitants of the underground future world of THX would retreat to " confession booths " when stressed, and initiate a one-sided Eliza-formula conversation with a Jesus-faced computer who claimed to be " Omm ".

Better `` hand '', a more luxurious feel, and better insulating properties were claimed to be the result.

The DSM's focus on superficial symptoms is claimed to be largely a result of necessity ( assuming such a manual is nevertheless produced ), since there is no agreement on a more explanatory classification system.

" He claimed to have been in over 300 street fights, many of them a result of this period, though he also claimed to have not started any of these fights.

The acceptance of artificial methods of birth control is then claimed to result in several negative consequences, among them a " general lowering of moral standards " resulting from sex without consequences, and the danger that men may reduce women " to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of own desires "; finally, abuse of power by public authorities, and a false sense of autonomy.

The result however has been challenged by others who claimed that this is an overestimation by an order of magnitude due to flawed statistical analysis.

Jasmuheen claimed that this was a result of " polluted air ".

Speculation in the press suggested that his collapse had been the result of excessive alcohol and drug use, but the band claimed that he had simply overeaten.

The Communication Workers Union claimed the actual figure was closer to three times more expensive but argued that this was the result of a deliberate policy of running the railway down and using it at only one-third of its capacity.

I have been sued by customers whom I threw out that claimed that I viciously attacked them without just cause and / or I caused them great bodily harm as a result of a beating I supposedly gave them ," Mr. T once remarked.

Max Weber claimed the change that developed modern society and nations is the result of the rise of a charismatic leader to power in a society who creates a new tradition or a rational-legal system that establishes the supreme authority of the state.

This striking formula is one of the so-called explicit formulas of number theory, and is already suggestive of the result we wish to prove, since the term x ( claimed to be the correct asymptotic order of ) appears on the right-hand side, followed by ( presumably ) lower-order asymptotic terms.

Their intervention achieved a result favourable to the Papacy by restoring to the pope the parts of Benevento that the popes claimed.

The police claimed his death was the result of an extended hunger strike, but an autopsy revealed multiple bruises and abrasions and that he ultimately succumbed to a brain hemorrhage from the massive injuries to the head, which many saw as strong evidence that he had been brutally clubbed by his captors.

During the trial, it was claimed that Biko's head injuries were the result of a self-inflicted suicide attempt, not those of any beatings.

Oliver North came into the public spotlight as a result of his participation in the Iran-Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s, in which he claimed partial responsibility for the sale of weapons via intermediaries to Iran, with the profits being channeled to the Contras in Nicaragua.

In the early 20th century there were two other prominent concepts of telepathy: the spiritualist position which claimed telepathy was the result of external spirits, and a view claiming interactions between two or more subconscious minds.

It is administered as a French overseas territory, as the result of an agreement with the United Kingdom in 1954, but sovereignty is disputed with ownership claimed by both Mauritius and the Seychelles.

Davis traveled to Haiti in 1982 and, as a result of his investigations, claimed that a living person can be turned into a zombie by two special powders being introduced into the blood stream ( usually via a wound ).

The investigation found that the " missing plutonium " was a result of miscalculation by LANL's statisticians and did not actually exist ; but, the investigation did lead to heavy criticism of the laboratory by the DOE for security flaws and weaknesses that the DOE claimed to have found.

Psychologist Nicholas Spanos and others have suggested that in addition to iatrogenesis, DID may be the result of role-playing rather than alternative identities, though others disagree, pointing to a lack of incentive to manufacture or maintain separate identities and point to the claimed histories of abuse.

As a result, he claimed, living together in rationally organized communities like modern humans is a development with many negative aspects compared to the original state of man as an ape.

She claimed that " situations are social constructs that are the result, not of ' perception ,' but of ' definition '" ( Miller 156 ).

World peace is sometimes claimed to be the inevitable result of a certain political ideology.