Example sentences of "a claim to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If either had applied promptly , the appellant would have brought into the action at an earlier stage and the defendant would , in all probability , have been forced to give consideration then to the making of a claim to contribution in respect of his liability , if proved , to the plaintiff . |
| 3 | ( 1 ) Is the ex turpi causa defence available as an answer to a claim to contribution under the Act of 1978 ? |
| 4 | ’ The concluding words show that a claim to contribution might arise under the Act of 1935 out of tortious conduct committed by two or more persons even though one or both of them may have committed a crime in the course of such conduct . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) If it were available in respect of a claim under the Act of 1978 , would the ex turpi causa defence clearly exclude a claim to contribution by the third defendant in this case ? |
| 6 | However I would say that , on a strike out application , I would find it difficult to hold with certainty that the ex turpi causa defence , assuming it to be available , would exclude a claim to contribution under the Act of 1978 unless I were also satisfied , with the same degree of certainty , that there must be exemption from contribution under section 2(2) . |
| 7 | The list is restricted to seven but , again , there are others with a claim to inclusion . |
| 8 | Indeed , as we shall see , Gregory VII rebuked his too active agent Hugh , now archbishop of Lyons , for his officious energy in harrying the king of England to carry out papal decrees , without regard to the king 's virtues which earned him a claim to forbearance . |
| 9 | The designation must not be misleading , nor must it be based on an area of practice in which a claim to specialisation or particular expertise would be improper ( see paragraph 2(b) above ) . |
| 10 | Only a handful of politicians in Britain have succeeded in doing what Heseltine has done — establishing a claim to leadership while outside the ruling group of his party . |
| 11 | The epistemological importance of such an exercise is evident , as is the fact that care would have to be taken to avoid circularity , to ensure that we did not make the credibility of a claim to knowledge depend upon beliefs that were not in the foundation . |
| 12 | To take the weakest case first ; even if the sceptic were unwise enough to admit that any assertion involves a claim to knowledge and that he is asserting his conclusion that knowledge is impossible , he can still maintain his position . |
| 13 | So far he had been able to maintain a claim to even-handedness on the grounds that he treated both sides , Moslems and Copt , with equal severity . |
| 14 | But the difficulty of establishing a claim to self determination can be seen with regard to birth control . |
| 15 | But there is inevitably a claim to truth involved and the critical content of theory alone is not sufficient to justify its acceptance : |
| 16 | Yet in one sense every interpretation makes a claim to truth of some sort , or rests on premises and presuppositions treated as true . |
| 17 | If there is any standard criterion today of what constitutes a nation with a claim to self-determination , meaning to setting up an independent territorial nation-state , it is ethnic-linguistic , since language is taken , wherever possible , to express and symbolise ethnicity . |
| 18 | As the cast list expanded through royal marriages and the creation of a brood of ‘ nearly royals ’ — frivolous young men and women staking a claim to attention in the gossip columns simply because another member of the family had a genuine connection with the Windsors — the roles could be constantly juggled to satisfy an appetite which had been primed by the Palace itself . |
| 19 | The case for the validity of a claim to authority must include justificatory considerations sufficient to outweigh such counter-reasons . |