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None of these claims was true.

Cho said he got the information on the secret accounts from anonymous source, a claim that he failed to verify until now and that many consider to be a groundless conjecture .

The State party concludes that as the allegations of torture have not been substantiated, they cannot form the basis of the Committee's assessment of the case.

But the real story is very different.

These claims are wildly overstated.

There is no evidence to support these outlandish claims.

Such claims were as wrong then as they are now.

Such claims were as wrong then as they are now. But how many media reports make even a cursory effort to evaluate them?

No doubt some of the claims made for robots replacing human labor will prove as far fetched now as they have in the past.

Spurious economic arguments against higher taxes have been debunked in the West, but are still commonly repeated in the finance ministries of developing countries.

We saw this with the false allegations of the desecration of a Koran last year.

Their case for small government libertarianism rested largely on those claims, and has now largely crumbled, because the world, it turned out, disagreed with them about how it works.

But if these allegations are true, no one has told the Dutch.

The allegations of March 2003 were refuted by the Egyptian authorities.

Are there universal human rights that transcend conflicting claims of particular cultural traditions?

Frankly, I do not understand how Bernanke can say any of these things right now.

Accordingly, the Committee declares these claims inadmissible under article 2 of the Optional Protocol.

Unsustainable claims should not be made for it.

There is a need, however, for a healthy skepticism towards the claims of a meritocracy based on academic achievement alone.

Dismissing complaints, Zuma insists, There s no cloud around me.

Baupin denies the allegations, but nonetheless submitted his resignation as deputy speaker of the National Assembly.

Therefore, claims that his Government did not undertake adequate investigations of torture allegations were unfounded.

But how many media reports make even a cursory effort to evaluate them?

Ukrainians demand democracy, freedom and the rule of law.

As a non believer, I am bound to treat such claims with skepticism.

The vast majority of these initial research claims would yield only spurious findings.

At least three opposition led newspapers have supported these claims with further incitements against the Shahbag protesters and individual bloggers.

Assad's official Syrian news agency said the allegations were designed to derail an ongoing United Nations (UN) inquiry.

I am truly spellbound that such glaringly false claims can be made by the Greek Cypriot representative in a letter circulated as a United Nations document.

In most cases we find after thorough professional investigations that such assertions have no foundation.

The Committee recommends to the State party that it provide more precise information about the bodies responsible for investigating these allegations.

Alleged rapes of minors, including very young girls, continue to be a very worrisome issue.

Experts would remind us that Kazakhstan had never been a country, and that Ukrainian claims to independence are historically dubious.

But claims that China is overheating don t seem to be based on observations of inflation.

Likewise, electoral commissions there and in Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and, according to some accounts, in Argentina are being packed with political loyalists.

Such claims by senior policymakers are hardly unique to the UK but they are false and misleading.

I sent the team back in June to clarify allegations that Syrian intelligence operatives continued to operate in the country.

Contrary to the claims made in the report of the Special Rapporteur, the Kayin (Karen) people were not subject to exclusion or persecution.

A hot, dry summer (in some places) has triggered another barrage of such claims.

On other issues notably immigration Obama rejects claims of states rights and insists on federal authority.

Public concern about this issue has been made much worse by claims that the rich get even richer by paying little tax.

A new phenomenon has been reported killings of demobilized ex combatants, allegedly by FNL.

Of course, claims and counter claims have been swirling in the aftermath of the appalling chemical weapons attack on a rebel controlled area east of Damascus.

Since then, hurricane incidence has dropped off the charts indeed, by one measure, global accumulated cyclone energy has decreased to its lowest levels since the late 1970 s. Exaggerated claims merely fuel public distrust and disengagement.