Governments, even Chinese communist ones, are less able to control economic outcomes than they claim to be.
As written, it would limit federal spending much more than they claim or, I suspect, intend (I said the same back in 2011, when this first came up).
They claim to have founded more than 500 places of learning in 90 countries.
Professor Alan Marscher of Boston University and colleagues claim they have delved deeper than ever into their heart.
The Chinese have built a fort-like structure there, although they claim it is nothing more than a shelter for fishermen.
As it happens, some of the banks may turn out to be more grateful for its existence than they currently claim to be, for two reasons.
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The Conference of Mayors, seizing the moment, released an 803-page report this week listing 11, 000 projects which, they claim, would create more than 800, 000 jobs over the next two years.
To translate that slogan into English, they claim they are economically more credible than Labour, and instinctively fairer minded than the Conservatives.
However, if you move up a level and ask yourself what retirement savings actually are, I think it is fair to say that they are nothing more than a claim by those who no longer work (or will soon no longer work) on the fruits of the existing capital stock and the labor of those who will be working in the future.
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In addition, should one of them turn up in the household survey of employment, they should automatically be classified as not in the labor force rather than unemployed no matter how much they claim they are looking for work.
Golf fans may be the safest bet, since they claim to be more likely to vote than their race car-loving counterparts.
The free-market Moderates who, with their coalition partners, run Stockholm's council, regard all this as a triumph, citing what they claim are shorter waiting times for treatment than other regions as their vindication.
At the moment the government is forced to abandon cases and pay out substantial compensation claims - often to terror suspects who claim they have been mistreated - rather than put intelligence sources and practices at risk.
They claim they achieve this experience through nothing more than just a little internal rewiring to optimize performance.
This is the first LCD that is larger than a Plasma, which they claim makes it the best technology.
Only after they have worked legally for at least a12 month period, without a break of more than 30 days, can they claim social security benefits such as Jobseeker's Allowance.
Open Data campaigners claim that ministers are keener than they should be to listen to managers at the Ordnance Survey, the Land Registry and the Met Office who want to charge for their data rather than make it free.
"I have no way of knowing what's going to happen to Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin, if the same thing might not happen to them, " says Wang, who doesn't know the couple and makes no specific claim against them other than that they are wealthy.
But under the new policy, officials hope to spray 121, 000 hectares this year, up from 94, 000 hectares last year and faster than the rate of replanting, they claim.
Many industries that employ workers temporarily or intermittently, such as construction, retailing and seasonal tourism, can pay lower wages than they otherwise would because workers can claim benefit in between jobs.
How could a commissioner claim a genuine mandate if they were elected by fewer than one in five?
The group has named more than 100 current and former legislators who they claim are guilty of various wrongdoings.
The authorities claim that the banks are healthier now than they were two years ago because their capital position is so much stronger.
They claim, for instance, that no trade takes more than a second to complete, from the desktop to the stock exchange and back again.
Mr Cameron's advisers insist that he is not picking a fight with Francois Hollande who, they claim, is much more in tune with British policy than his rhetoric suggests.
Our correspondent said there was now a "diplomatic stand off" because Argentina's view is that the referendum is illegitimate and will have no bearing on their claim because they see the islanders as occupiers, rather than residents.
The finding from our annual Fashion Brand Index that shows an increasing importance of fashion brands in the decision-making and purchasing process supports our claim that brands have never mattered more than they do now.
That said, the owners now claim they are still losing money, presumably because of higher than expected costs.
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They claim that the new launcher will be much simpler and more reliable than its predecessor when it is put into service in 2000.
Whether public pensions truly are as sophisticated at evaluating the risks and rewards related to complex privately offered investments as they claim to be is a question deserving of an answer sooner rather than later.
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