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He added: "I have long maintained that the first problem was the target itself – a fixation on relative income and a moving poverty line ever harder to reach.

Many scholars have thus maintained that the first six books of the Old Testament form a literary unit, of which Numbers is an integral part.

In a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Owen Josephus Roberts, the court maintained that the First Amendment prohibited Congress from making laws regarding the establishment of religion or preventing free exercise of any religion and that the Fourteenth Amendment placed the same prohibitions on state legislatures.

Despite reservations concerning the capacity of the first principle to determine the content, as opposed to the form, of the propositions derived from it, Reinhold unequivocally maintained that the first principle of all philosophy had to be a material (or synthetic) as well as a formal (or analytic) principle.

He loathed class distinction, and was not antipathetic to social reformers, but he was strong in his criticism of Christian campaigners who maintained that the first duty of the Church was social reform.

On her part, Cassatt maintained that the first sight of Degas' pastels "was the turning point in my artistic life" (4 ).

To the end of her life, Frances, who died in 1986, maintained that the fifth photo in the series was genuine.

Sotomayor denied ever using cocaine and was cleared by the Cuban federation, which maintained that the second of his two urine samples might have been tampered with.

In the early 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked, using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children's book of the time, but Frances maintained that the fifth and final photograph was genuine.

It maintains that the first thing you have to do is to create a corporate culture which permits ideas to blossom.

Alberto Mora, the former Navy general counsel who protested the abuses, told the Senate committee that "there are serving U.S. flag-rank officers who maintain that the first and second identifiable causes of U.S. combat deaths in Iraq — as judged by their effectiveness in recruiting insurgent fighters into combat — are, respectively, the symbols of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo".