Sentence examples for academic claiming from inspiring English sources

A recent book by an obscure Finnish academic, claiming that Estonia will shortly be reincorporated into the Russian Federation, made front-page news.

The whip has been a hot topic in Australia this week, with one academic claiming horses are more likely to feel pain than has been realised, while an increasing number of British politicians are showing interest in the subject.

Parents are being unnecessarily worried by the way the Government is presenting the figures on the unfolding swine flu pandemic, a leading academic claimed yesterday.

Richard Florida, an influential American academic, claims that their mere presence lures investors and jobs, particularly of the high-technology kind.

The American Civil Liberties Union had filed suit against the NSA in January on behalf of journalists, defense lawyers and academics, claiming their international calls were being intercepted by the spying program.

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All these factors, the two academics claim, can be replicated at low cost in the market, capturing most of the benefits.

Foreign leftist academics claimed that all this added up to an empowering "direct democracy", superior to the incipient welfare state set up by Latin America's social democratic governments.

Banks will not lend to first-time buyers at "pre-crunch" levels until 2020, academics claim today in a study that raises the prospect of a bleak decade for young people in Britain.

A scholarly colloquium initiated by the N.C.A.A. three years ago got off to a rocky start when some academics claimed that the association was not open to accepting research that might place it in a negative light.

Purists may scoff at the very notion of mixing the Bard with technology of the kind used for Lara Croft Tombraider games, but academics claim the virtual reality sets "are like nothing theatre audiences have ever seen before".