They claim to be more fiscally responsible, but show a willingness to support underfunded expenditures.
And if their foreign funding is significant, then how can they claim to be Israeli groups?
Governments, even Chinese communist ones, are less able to control economic outcomes than they claim to be.
Many accept them for what they claim to be - a harmless bit of entertainment that genuinely fosters talent.
But what we have found when we dig into these is that they're often not what they claim to be.
Our social streams are being polluted by scammers, spammers, phishers, groupies and people who are not who they claim to be.
Golf fans may be the safest bet, since they claim to be more likely to vote than their race car-loving counterparts.
They claim to be considering retaining a well-respected law firm, Baker Hostetler, who advised them of potential criminal misconduct by the executors.
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They claim to be London's first floating herbal apothecary in 350 years.
But though they claim to be drawing a line in the sand, the Socialists are really just sticking their heads in it.
But like the UN, the truth about the international Left shows that its members are the opposite of what they claim to be.
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Like other public services, the armed forces tend to complain that they are under-funded, even as they claim to be doing a splendid job.
"They claim to be a brake on the Tories - but they are nothing of the sort - they are their accomplices, " she said.
But those numbers are exactly what they claim to be: estimates.
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"The savings they claim to be making would have been made anyway, as buildings would have been vacated as they have fewer employees, " Mr Cann said.
Traffickers have now begun to channel ever more young Albanians to Britain telling them, rightly, that if they claim to be Kosovars fleeing war, they will be well looked after.
"They claim to be worried about global stability, but they are not vigilant about nuclear materials and ballistic missile technology, " she says, pointing out that Russia is already helping arm Iran.
As in Madrid, these attacks will often be carried out by individuals who have only a passing contact with the al-Qaeda organisation, even if they claim to be members of it.
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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U.S. negotiators are making serious demands on matters they claim to be central to 21st century trade, yet they appear unwilling to give ground on the 18th century protectionism still afforded U.S. textile and footwear producers.
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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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Earlier reports had Goldman reassigning its proprietary traders to its asset management division, where they could claim to be acting in client interests.
In fact, it has long been known that exit polls, though they may claim to be based on random samples, suffer from biases in the way that they are conducted.
We peeked into Richard the Lionheart's apartment (as they claim it to be).
Organisers of the campaign for a windfall tax say they have secured a resolution on the issue to be debated at the TUC conference next week, which they claim is almost certain to be passed.
So, if a person is out of work and looking for a job but not claiming Jobseeker's Allowance for any reason (for example they may not want to, or they may not be eligible to claim it), they will appear in the figure for unemployment, but not the figure for claimant count.
After all, come 2015 they will want to be able to claim that they played the leading role in making Britain a networked nation.
But they can only block him if they can reasonably claim to be acting on political principle, not out of political pique.
They claim they wanted to be as far away from the name DVD as possible in order to distinguish themselves, but some say they choose blu instead of blue so they could copyright the name.
However, so long as these banks retain assets of sufficient quality, they can continue to claim to be viable, or at least potentially viable - even if they are only alive because of credit they've received from the European Central Bank, for example, or from their national central banks.
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