Many objections its impracticability, its neglect of the special claims of one's parents were raised against this new doctrine, but Mozi demonstrated that the principle of undifferentiated love had in it both utilitarian justification and divine sanction.
The conference, proposed by Portugal in pursuance of its special claim to control of the Congo estuary, was necessitated by the jealousy and suspicion with which the great European powers viewed one another's attempts at colonial expansion in Africa.
As soon as the book was published in July 1857, the Observer printed an extract and was full of praise for her and her autobiography, beginning: "Those who would wish to know what special claims of interest Mrs Seacole possesses on our sympathies cannot do better than refer to her 'Memoirs'".
Because for everyone who would use average figures to make special claims on behalf of a group or take them as proof of "institutional racism", there are many others who will take this same trend data as scientific evidence to underpin racist stereotypes.
A complex formula of special discounts claimed by many nations further skewed the system.
Opponents of special services claim that small providers can't afford this.
Neither of you have a special claim on the glorious city of Cambridge, so quit pretending that you do.
In the end, like most knowledge, a strong empirically-based theory of change -- or good evidence that a theory of change doesn't work -- is a public good, equally useful for a nonprofit and its funders, but with no one having a special claim of ownership.
One lead player in this drama is the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Borough Park, whose members feel a special claim on a hospital.
That fix is the department's "transformation plan," which calls for a new training regimen that Mr. Shinseki says will improve speed and accuracy in processing claims; creation of special teams to handle complex claims; and new digital technology that will replace the current paper-choked system.
