As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.
Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.
Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.
Opponents have claimed that regulating carbon will hurt the economy and businesses. The economies of California and British Columbia prove otherwise.
When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.
I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart.
When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law.
Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.
For someone who claimed to have found the true method for seeking reliable knowledge, it is remarkable how wrong Descartes was about so many aspects of nature.
After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.
Seriously though, most films worth their salt will have something to say about the world we live in. Even 'Avatar' claimed that!
He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.
Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.
During my time in Pakistan, I was asked to lead an expedition to Azad Kashmir following a devastating earthquake in 2005 that claimed the lives of 80,000 people.
No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.
Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.
I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.
I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.
I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.
I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.
In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.
Following the Orlando attack, ISIS claimed the attacker as one of its own and called for even more such killings worldwide.
If Trump claimed something was the most luxurious, it was likely a dank, low-end casino in Atlantic City.
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
I've never claimed myself to be a particularly Asian R&B singer. I'm R&B, pure and simple, regardless of my skin colour. Should that matter? I think not.
The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.
Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.
To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.
Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to “humbleness.” But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.
What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.
It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.
Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself.
CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.
Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software.
You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love... but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it." "When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?
The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that,
if you let it alone,
it will let you alone.
She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.
Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.
I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.
Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.
My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk.
I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.
I've always said in interviews that I am a man I've never claimed to be anything but. Other than for performances, the women's clothing is in a box.
AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
We never claimed to be a Christian band; we just were outspoken about our faith. It's not like we knew there was a scene.
The show is not really about finding love in Silicon Valley, and it never really claimed be so.
The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.
It would be completely laughable if I claimed I was always motivated by the pure craft of acting and that recognition doesn't play a part. Of course it does - that's human nature.
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