Example sentences of "claim to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claim to legitimacy of particular possession is based entirely upon the institutionalization of rights . |
| 2 | These doubts stem from a failure to appreciate the many ways in which the communal character of political authorities affects their claim to legitimacy vis-a-vis each individual . |
| 3 | In Earle v Medhurst [ 1985 ] CLY 2650 the plaintiff 's claim to privilege for medical reports he had disclosed in a previous action against a different defendant claiming damages for similar injuries was not upheld . |
| 4 | Held , ( 1 ) that the order for disclosure was not an order made in a proprietary claim so as to defeat the defendants ' claim to privilege against self-incrimination , nor was it a claim relating to infringement of rights pertaining to commercial information within section 72 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ( post , pp. 351A–B , 352A , 355B , B–C , 360A , G–H , 361D–F ) . |
| 5 | For their part , the Muslims had already given up their claim to reunion with Syria as their price for participation in government under the Covenant . |
| 6 | Throughout the remainder of the 1530s , royal propagandists were systematically employed to justify and publicize Henry 's claim to supremacy over the English church . |
| 7 | It is possible to limit the claim to part of the surplus ACT . |
| 8 | Midshipman Callender 's friends no doubt were aware that efficiency united to interest was the strongest claim to promotion in the navy , and Lord Keith 's correspondence abounds in references to interest being a motive in bringing a man forward in the service : ‘ I have made McKenzie a lieutenant into the Rattlesnake ; he was a friend of Mr. Dunsmuress and recommended by Lord Elphinstone to me , so I am glad to have served him ’ , a comment which suggests that the admiral was influenced by something more than Mr. McKenzie 's personal abilities . |
| 9 | Lingering in the background was the English claim to overlordship of Scotland , occasionally dragged out as a diplomatic counter to Scottish military ambitions on England 's northern border ; but these neither seriously interrupted the peace between the two countries nor undermined Scotland 's status as an independent kingdom . |
| 10 | However — with the loss of Jordanian sovereignty — until the United States accepts the Palestinian claim to sovereignty over the occupied territories , Resolution 242 is bound to remain bereft of meaning , since there is no US-recognized state to which the West Bank and Gaza can be returned . |
| 11 | When Argentina recognises the right to self-determination and freedom of association of the Falklands people , and gives up her claim to sovereignty over the territory , we might be more amenable to trade and contact . |
| 12 | As a result it would be possible for the French at some future date to renew their claim to sovereignty over Aquitaine , and for the English to do the same in respect of the crown of France . |
| 13 | Thus in 1296 he consulted his council of magnates who advised him that a certain papal provision would prejudice the crown ; and in 1299 he contested the pope 's claim to sovereignty over Scotland as a threat to the dignity of his crown . |
| 14 | He informed them of Gen Morgan 's visit to Belgrade two days earlier , and Tito 's refusal to back down on his claim to sovereignty over Venezia Giulia . |
| 15 | When my right hon. Friend sees the new Irish Prime Minister soon will he tell him that the biggest contribution the Irish Republic can make to peace , stability and reconciliation in Northern Ireland is to renounce its claim to sovereignty over Northern Ireland , as that claim encourages Irish Republican terrorism and gives it legitimacy , as well as being the strongest stumbling block in the way of all-party talks aimed at constitutional progress ? |
| 16 | However , he confirmed that Argentina 's claim to sovereignty over the Falklands , set to one side during the negotiations , would continue to be pursued in international forums . |
| 17 | Less than a week after achieving full independence on June 19 [ see p. 18159 ] , Kuwait was threatened by a claim to sovereignty over the whole of its territory by the Iraqi leader , Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem . |
| 18 | The draft agreement would guarantee Guatemalan access to the Caribbean and could , if ratified by both sides and confirmed by public referendum , lead to the abandonment of Guatemala 's historic claim to sovereignty over Belize . |
| 19 | Such terms are often found to be more-or-less transferable from one problem to another , and so have some claim to significance beyond the level of the particular problem in which they were derived . |
| 20 | As all Iraqis know , Saddam himself is Sunni , despite his claim to descent from Ali ; and the putative victory over Iran was presumably won by all Iraqis , Shia and Sunni alike . |
| 21 | The claim to descent from Ida , nevertheless , suggests that it was a Bernician family which intervened at this point . |
| 22 | ‘ Fighting talk ’ stakes its claim to credibility through the narrative conventions of autobiographical realism ; the continual citation of ‘ first hand ’ experience conveys an implicit message that it is their encounter with black people which has led these boys to adopt racist arguments and not any external ideological influence . |
| 23 | As of mid-September , four men laid claim to leadership of the country — Taylor , Johnson , Nimley and Amos Sawyer . |
| 24 | This effectively restricted their use to the wealthy and to those whose claim to assistance under the ban was incontrovertible . |
| 25 | The house of Béarn had a strong claim to Bigorre on Esquivat 's death , as the much-married Petronilla , countess of Bigorre ( 1190–1251 ) had ordained in her will that , should her grandson Esquivat die without heirs , the comté was to be held by her daughter Mathe de Bigorre , wife of Gaston VII of Béarn . |
| 26 | For James and the Nazarean Party in Jerusalem , what matters is Jesus 's teaching and his claim to Messiahship in the established context of the time — as rightful king and liberator . |
| 27 | The claim to competence in carrying out school evaluation made by four fifths of Oxfordshire teachers should be seen in the light of these limited strategies , espoused also by four-fifths of them . |
| 28 | If , however , we do apply anthropological and linguistic perspectives to this recent work on the consequences of literacy , as I claim we must despite its claim to protection from them , then that work in fact turns out to be as biased as that of the earlier phases . |
| 29 | ( 1 ) Is the ex turpi causa defence available as an answer to a claim to contribution under the Act of 1978 ? |
| 30 | The specific purpose of that Act , as of the Act of 1935 before it , was to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim to contribution under the general law . |