In the real world, "net-zero" gives polluters an excuse to continue with business as usual, claiming that future inventions will fix the problem.
He was determined to avoid the usual claim that Dianetics offered a triumphal march toward enlightenment.
Our advice to Mr. Obama and his new E.P.A. administrator, Gina McCarthy, is to ignore industry's usual claim that the sky is falling and push ahead.
The document Roberts brought to parliament was well stocked with his usual claims and covered much of the ground he previously trampled in his maiden speech.
Aziz made the usual claims about the motives of the United States and Great Britain and noted that America had been hijacked by a small group of Jews and Christians, the oil lobby, and the military-industrial complex.
Nanfeng Chuang, a weekly magazine, reported on April 1st that Japan "naturally" had concerns about China's military expansion, given its territorial disputes with its neighbour a departure in the press from the usual claims of a resurgent Japanese militarism.
This final stage, which almost all of the greatest Christian mystics have insisted upon, belies the usual claim that mysticism is a selfish flight from the world and an avoidance of moral responsibility.
It also reinforces the usual claim that the North Korean side makes; ie that the human rights movement, with whom Miller was allegedly connected, and Christian missionary activities, with which Bae was involved in, are mere fronts for US espionage.
But the usual claim runs like this: sure, this is true of any individual bank, but the money banks lend just ends up being deposited in other banks, so there is no actual balance-sheet constraint on bank lending, and no reserve constraint worth mentioning either.
But in fact for many believers these comments come as a refreshing departure from the usual claims of victimhood, the obsession with the supposed 'hardships' faced by Christians in modern society, and the conviction that religious freedoms are somehow under siege.
