Sentence examples for claim precisely from inspiring English sources

It is the law's claim precisely to base itself in such tools.

For instance, rationalists explain away people's fondness for betting on long-shots in horse races by claiming that most are simply more risk-loving than expected, and then claim precisely the opposite about investors to explain the equity premium.

It does seem that when commentators approve of gestures designed to communicate without words, to emphasise elements of character, or to move the spectator emotionally through performance – all facets which many of us would claim precisely as "good theatre" – they choose instead other words.

But it is difficult to formulate the reductionist claim precisely.

The result is that we can allow the domain of quantification to be as large as we like, and no object of the wrong kind can count as a counterexample to the general claim, precisely because it is of the wrong kind.

Profits from the track's casino had fattened the purse to $18,000, far more than the $4,000 for which each horse could be purchased, or claimed — precisely the kind of cost disparity that prominent veterinarians had warned against.

In the meantime Commissar Monti is claiming precisely the opposite and is trying to claw back powers so rudely taken from him.

But if you had followed the news published by privacy advocates such as The Electronic Privacy Information Center, you'd have known about those findings way before Facebook began claiming precisely the opposite.

Since the representationalist's claim is precisely that sensory qualities just are representational contents of a certain kind, but not that this is analytically or conceptually true, Shoemaker has given her/him no reason to think that the inversion is really, metaphysically, possible.

Asked whether his claim for precisely £210.31 indicated that he had put the shoes and nail varnish on expenses, Woolas replied: "I take your point and I understand the extrapolation".

However, this last claim is precisely the sort of folk-psychological assumption that the eliminative materialist is suggesting we should abandon.