Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find it easier to understand how modern-day liberal theologians support homosexuality if they realize that those theologians deny that the Bible, in its entirety, is God's word. Once they reject the authority of the Bible in one area, they lose any basis to claim the Bible's authority in other areas as well...
Byrd and Baker combined to draft amendments to the treaties containing exactly the language of the "clarification" -then deftly persuaded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to omit it so that a host of Senators could co-sponsor the amendments and thus claim credit for protecting U.S. interests in the Panama Canal Zone. By week's end, 78 Senators had signed on as cosponsors...
Garry W. Martin '78, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association, said yesterday the University had to claim it was selling the bank stock for financial reasons or "it would be under pressure to divest itself of its stock in other corporations operating in South Africa...
Although the PLO is excluded from the current round of peace talks, Fisher says, "In the long run there is no alternative to the PLO. Is is the only group that can claim to speak for all the Palestinians." Based on private discussions he has had with PLO members, Fisher says he believes the PLO "is prepared to seek peace with Israel in return for direct U.S. talks with them." So he has been urging the State Department to try to establish face-to-face discussions between Israel and the PLO. "The sooner we start domesticating the PLO, the better...
...J.V.s managed to beat their varsity opponents in 11 of the 15 events, but had to wait until the last man of the final relay touched home before they could claim victory. A Tufts swimmer who had started early was disqualified to void what would have been a one-point Jumbo victory...