Sentence examples for as it claims to from inspiring English sources

Some observers have challenged that view, saying the military has advanced its positions even as it claims to be acting in self-defense.

TED is a display case for such stories and, increasingly, the subject of them; the conference has grown famous for making its speakers famous, even as it claims to tread above the rough clod of celebrity.

If Dragons' Den has as much nous as it claims to have, this will be its last series.

The key question about the banned Brotherhood — one that has proved vexing to Egypt's nervous bourgeoisie and to many of its Western friends — is whether it has really renounced violence, as it claims to have done.

Islamism is not "the solution," as it claims to be.

The Shabab may not be as cohesive as it claims to be.

In part, Enron was not as big as it claimed to be, a close parsing of its financial data shows.

Nor was it as "excellent" as it claimed to be, he said, and performances sometimes looked like "wallpaper … and were deadly boring".

This reminded me of Edmund de Waal's observation that the ideal plain brown slipware was often not as useful as it claimed to be.

Labour have accused the Treasury of failing to fully tackle tax avoidance as it claimed to have identified a £2.6bn black hole created by downgraded revenue forecasts.

In terms of international law, says the EU report, this had no legal power and challenged Georgia's sovereignty.Russia backed separatists in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, even as it claimed to be a neutral peacekeeper.