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They claim that the mere existence of the third-party candidate essentially steals votes (" tilts " or " tips the scales ") from the more progressive of the two main candidates and puts the election in favor of the " worse " candidate — because the small percentage that goes towards the third party candidate is a part " wasted " that could have instead gone to the lesser-evil candidate.
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They claim that, for this moral order to exist, God must exist to support it.
They claim that it would be impossible for Greek loanwords to appear two centuries before then.
They note his lack of action during the Rwanda genocide and his welfare reform which some claim led to the worst child poverty since the 1960s along with the fact that the number of black people in jail increased during his administration.
They claim that the errors in the Bible have led to incorrect interpretations of certain passages.
They claim that agricultural carbon sequestration has the potential to mitigate global warming.
They were refuted in this claim by David J. Schneider, who wrote that " correlations between prejudice and political conservative are reduced virtually to zero when controls for SDO are instituted ".
They claim that that rainforests 50 years ago covered 14 % of the world's land surface, now only cover 5 – 7 %, and that all tropical forests will be gone by the middle of the 21st century.
They claim that, if chance is the primary cause of decisions, then agents cannot be liable for resultant actions.
They claim that given a specific experiment, in which the outcome of a measurement is known before the measurement takes place, there must exist something in the real world, an " element of reality ", that determines the measurement outcome.
Bob Quincy stakes Carolina's claim in his 1973 book They Made the Bell Tower Chime:
They claimed that it was to launch a satellite, but there is no proof to back up that claim.
They claim that insider trading based on material nonpublic information benefits investors, in general, by more quickly introducing new information into the market.
They claim that Behe overestimated the significance of irreducible complexity because of his simple, linear view of biochemical reactions, resulting in his taking snapshots of selective features of biological systems, structures and processes, while ignoring the redundant complexity of the context in which those features are naturally embedded.
They asked Zeus to judge which of them was fairest, and eventually he, reluctant to favour any claim himself, declared that Paris, a Trojan mortal, would judge their cases, for he had recently shown his exemplary fairness in a contest in which Ares in bull form had bested Paris's own prize bull, and the shepherd-prince had unhesitatingly awarded the prize to the god.
They did not openly express their gratitude to science fiction, because the funding depended on keeping claim to have originated the ideas they had put so much work into testing and verifying.
They also claim to have tried filming the being, but said their motion picture film was ruined by the heat and humidity.
They also claim that much of the other low-level chemistry in Nanosystems requires extensive further work, and that Drexler's higher-level designs therefore rest on speculative foundations.
They claim to be checking for damage from the storm, but John suspects they are searching for Blackbeard's ghost.
They claim to be descended from the Cathars of the Middle Ages.
They claim that the underlying economic motivation eroded any claims of moral superiority, leaving the hostile acts in ( Korea, Hungary, Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Nicaragua ) to stand on their own in justifying the human lives the conflicts had destroyed.
They claim that the phrase " ever-living " rarely, if ever, referred to a living person, but instead was used to refer to the eternal soul of the deceased.
They claim that liberal ideas of free speech are repressive, arguing that such " Marcusean logic " is the base of speech codes, which are seen by some as censorship, in US universities.
They claim that strict liability causes consumers to under invest in care even when they are the least-cost avoiders.
" They also claim that they are God's one and only true channel to mankind on earth, and used by God for this purpose.
They claim that they use numerous factors ( such as race, interactions, and dress ) to determine if a person is involved in criminal activity.
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They are mere fragments, just one portion of preprepared messages.
They become philosophic abstractions of a private and problematic relevance, or mere catchwords in religious customs which had in them a diminishing part of active belief.
They could not imagine that the Germans, whom they had defeated only twenty years previously, could defeat them in a mere six weeks, as happened when France fell in June 1940.
They have gone from several millions of users at a given time to mere thousands.
They viewed men's oppression of women as ongoing and deliberate, holding individual men responsible for this oppression, viewing institutions and systems ( including the family ) as mere vehicles of conscious male intent, and rejecting psychologistic explanations of female submissiveness as blaming women for collaboration in their own oppression.
" They quote Blavatsky's writing in Secret Doctrine as stating Aryans used religion as an " everlasting lodestar " in contrast to Judaism which Blavatsky claimed was based on " mere calculation " while characterizing it as a " religion of hate and malice toward everyone and everything outside itself.
They may be long and filamentous, or short and reduced to mere knobs or warts.
They scout the notion that their terrible " black tiger " is a mere melanic variation, like the black leopard of the Old World and the wild black rabbit.
They were able to get away with innuendo that would have been unheard of a mere ten years before — in one episode, Sandy refers to Julian and his skill at the piano as: " a miracle of dexterity at the cottage upright "; innocuous in itself, unless one knows that a ' cottage ' was the polari term for a public toilet where men met for anonymous sexual encounters and ' upright ' referred to an erection.
They therefore took great pains to identify valid sources of knowledge and to distinguish these from mere false opinions.
They also treated such ceremonial symbols as the Key and Sash of Rassilon as mere historical curiosities, being unaware of their true function.
They were faced by the advancing Highland Brigade ; a mere three battalions.
They had cut the Tory majority from 102 seats to a mere 21, and for most of the three years leading up to the election opinion polls had indicated that Labour were more likely to win the election than the Tories were.
They believe that the multiple levels posited for English, whether primary – secondary or primary – secondary – tertiary, are mere phonetic detail and not true phonemic stress, and that often the alleged secondary stress is not characterized by the increase in respiratory activity normally associated with primary stress in English or with all stress in other languages.
They are not mere modifications of this cause or properties, as with Spinoza ,-- they are free forces having " their power or spring of action in themselves, and this is sufficient for our idea of independent finite reality.
They include the third largest party ( the Communist Party ), which still commands large support from many rural working areas as well as some of the immigrant population in Greece, as well as the far-right Popular Orthodox Rally, with the latter, while commanding a mere three and a half per cent of votes, seeking to capitalise on opposition in some quarters regarding Turkey's EU accession and any tension in the Aegean.
They are not mere subjects or vassals whose rights are delegated by a higher authority, nor are they passive objects of a political entity.
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths.
They raised their naval strength from a mere 11 squadrons of 3, 000 marines to 20 squadrons of 52, 000 marines in a century's time.
They can consume meat to the bone in mere nanoseconds.
They contain 7 extant families which are generally small but highly distinct, and a mere 12 lampriforms genera with some 20 species altogether are recognized.
They were not mere legal philosophers, but disposed of practical and " burning " questions of their time.
They may also offer services beyond mere cleansing, and turn into a spa, offering medical baths, massages, mud baths, fitness centers, etc., as for example the Spa LaQua at the Tokyo Dome City entertainment complex.
They have thereby transmuted the work from mere scholarship into warning.
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