I couldn't very well claim to be painting, could I?
By that yardstick, Japan, with a huge economy, and India, with a huge population, would look like perennial underachievers, while sports-crazy Australia and Cuba might well claim to be the real Olympic medal champions.
For all you young abstemious souls: it's all very well claiming to drink just once a week, but if that one evening involves a Batman costume, a bucket of alcopops and a funnel, and results in a visit to an NHS booze recovery gazebo, then it makes taking the moral high ground that little bit harder.
As the representative of the rich countries on the panel (Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono represented the middle-income countries and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the poorest countries), Cameron's attention should have been entirely focused on issues he might well claim to know a good deal about.
A mystic might well claim to experience the unity of a timeless spirit everywhere present.
A slice of the data in favor of big-game hunting of the sort Palmer does relies on the self-reporting of hunters, who may well claim to prefer shooting elderly male animals in unscenic venues (the best hunting scenario, from an ecological perspective) to slant research in their favor. .
Therefore, based on this research, the target well is claimed to be in the stable condition.
Certainly HG Wells later claimed to have relished the prospect.
All went well, so well that she claimed to be providing "the Teflon for the Teflon presidency", until late in 1986.
It seems that Duran and Hearns get on quite well, Leonard claims to love everybody and Hagler, well, he's just Marvin and he never liked anybody to start with.
