Sentence examples for mere claim from inspiring English sources

In place of the wise duty to retreat, these laws grant gun owners easy license to shoot to kill on the mere claim that they "reasonably believed" they were in danger.

The country's experts have long discussed the possibility of such a mission, but this is the first official acknowledgment of a decision to proceed.The document is, however, more than a mere claim to vainglory.

Not only has the Supreme Court's nondecision left an innocent person without remedy for his wrongful imprisonment and torture, it has also set a dangerous precedent for allowing a mere claim of "state secrets" by the executive to foreclose judicial review of executive action.

This is a stronger claim than the mere claim that pain is not identical to c-fiber firing.

However, it does not solve the problem of how the activity of single synapses enters the dynamics of neural assemblies, and it leaves mental causation of quantum processes as a mere claim.

Of course, the mere claim that the language of science can be extensional still proves troublesome enough, given that in such a language a distinction between laws and accidentally true universal propositions cannot be drawn (the notion of a counterfactual conditional, needed to distinguish the former, is an intensional one).

At a certain point, though, mere claims, no matter how solemnly pronounced, begin to ring false.

We argue that during the era of ferment, competing designs represent mere claims.

Even if the law claims to authorize the enforcement of its subjects' duties, it is not clear why the mere claiming of such authorization would suffice to make the claiming coercive.

He accused North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) and other elected officials of using mere claims of fraud to help pass voter ID restrictions.

An additional concern is that (1*) is ill-suited to serve as the content of a rational intuition because its content is a mere possibility claim and rationalists often hold that rational intuition involves in some way an appearance of necessity.