Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some questioned how effective the council could be in only a year, given that it has little direct claim upon the administration with which to enforce its demands...
...more. Several years ago, the British government attempted to pass a bill that would allow those rearing battery hens to remove the chipped wood from their cages. Several animal researchers complained, saying that hens "need" chipped wood. On the face of it, this seems like a highly anthropomorphic claim. After all, how would one know what chickens need or want? Marian Dawkins, an internationally recognized researcher in animal behavior, designed an extremely clever experiment to address this claim...
...treat any as "normal." Firefighters are not action movie heroes, throwing ourselves indiscriminately into walls of advancing flame. We respect each fire, know its force and know when it is time to retreat. Occasionally we miscalculate, a flaw of our human nature, and that sometimes means fire will claim a victim. When we lose brothers to fire, we all realize that any one of us could have fallen just as easily, and then we renew our vows to fight fire as safely...
...politics, Bad Girrls is committed to providing a venue for all the arts, from performance to poetry readings, music and traditional visual installations. While the studios await news of their future, they continue an afternoon arts program for neighborhood girls, to give back to the Jamaica Plain community they claim has bolstered them so much...
...claim was one of four rapes or assaults reported by female students at the university last month, a series of incidents that incited campus outrage and fear...