The survey found most manufacturing executives were "cautiously optimistic" about future activity, but a report of higher unemployment claims reinforced the market's recession worries.
Chris Huhne tore into its claim – reinforced in an advertising campaign – that a "yes" result in the poll on 5 May over replacing the first-past-the-post system with the alternative vote (AV) would cost Britain £250m.
No 10 is highly sensitive to the charge that the prime minister, David Cameron, is overly reliant on Etonians because that claim reinforces the Labour charge that he is out of touch with ordinary people.
Simon Dudley asserted that the town's beggars are raking it in, a claim reinforced by several charity workers we met, who claimed that one guy made up to £300 a day.
Moreover, their argument goes, the genetic claim reinforces proprietorial conceptions of parent child relationships: my genetic child is more mine than any other child that I may raise.
The problem is that feminist criticism of knowledge claims that reinforce injustice extends to claims of moral knowledge.
"The Director General's report and today's action by the Board of Governors expose once and for all the hollowness of Iran's claims, and reinforce the world's demands that Iran come clean and live up to its international obligations," the statement said.
We've repeatedly seen members of the press and political figures promoting this myth (or claims that reinforce it) over the last few years.
Recent work has shown that silencing of repetitive DNA and transposons is weakened in the vegetative cell leading to the formation of 21 nt small RNAs from their transcripts that are claimed to reinforce silencing in the associated sperm cells [ 19].
In some societies such claims risk reinforcing stereotypes about the sort of job that women are "good for".
