Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...income has jumped from $200 to $1,500. Yet the Iraqis have managed to hold their inflation rate to 8%. They have also held foreign influence over their oil industry to a minimum. Says an Iraqi Petroleum Company official: "We are the only Arab country that can make this claim: we run our oilfields without the help of a single foreigner...
...passage heavy with theological significance, he rejected efforts by modern radicals to view Jesus Christ as a political Messiah. "People claim to show Jesus as politically committed, as one who fought against Roman oppression and the authorities and also as one involved in the class struggle," said the Pope. "This idea of Christ as a political figure, a revolutionary, as the subversive man from Nazareth, does not tally with the church's catechesis." The Gospel and the church, he preached, must transcend all political ideologies. But while the church's mission is "not social or political," the church...
Police also claim the black community is using the case to stir up trouble and rekindle long-dead issue involving the police and the county's black residents...
...attitude of co-operation and the de-emphasis of ideology. A former steering committee member, who asked to remain anonymous, remembers heated debate over the guideline's adoption. "It's no longer an issue, though, because we realize that the guideline allows for flexibility," she says. Steering committee members claim Phillips Brooks House is constantly reevaluating its programs...
This experience forms part of "another aesthetic in the world," which differs from the "Euro-centric" aesthetic of western literature in its humanistic values and its claim that art has a social responsibility to humanity, Cudjoe said...