Sentence examples for whatever its claims from inspiring English sources

Whatever its claims, IS is generating enemies faster than friends.

Whatever its claims to forward-thinking-ness and however self-amplified its worship of the modern, the fashion world is essentially a technophobic place.

Informative but never pedagogical, she has stood for the notion that jazz, whatever its claims as an American treasure, should feel breezy and alive.

Did they — Jefferson and those guys — recognize that a country constantly at war with itself, with its own civic vocabulary, with its "understanding" of itself, even with whatever its claims to like about itself — is the country that works best?

The inverse is true as well: no documentary, whatever its claims to objective reportage, is ever devoid of manipulation, since a controlling hand is evident in even the most routine matters of camera placement and shot selection.

But in this case, the West's enemy is equally Islam's enemy: as Muslim organisations from across the religious spectrum have made clear, the ruthless brutality of Isis is profoundly un-Islamic, whatever its claims to the contrary.

"It brings the country together, and federalism, whatever its intellectual claims, doesn't speak to that".

The left, whatever its old claims to being the guarantor of a secular state, was adrift in a sea of unforeseen (and almost comically unsettling) new imperatives having to do with multiculturalism and diversity and political correctness, unable to decide the relative merits of freedom of religious expression and freedom from religious expression.

Ripper Street, axed after two series, was a victim of this necessary ruthlessness (whatever its fans claim, it "wasn't doing brilliantly", though he liked it a lot).

You must also learn how to set up, run and maintain a new system that – whatever its fans claim – beginners generally do not find particularly friendly.

Still, no new scheme has found a "killer application", whatever its promoters may claim.