Example sentences of "'s claim to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carloman 's widow , child , and a small band of supporters were welcomed by the Lombards , who pressed the child 's claim to a share of the Frankish kingdom . |
| 2 | Historically , the Senate 's claim to a say in the making of foreign policy had depended on the provisions in the Constitution regarding treaty-making . |
| 3 | The female half of the population had to wait even longer for an equal political voice : not until substantial numbers of women had moved out from the shelter of the home to take an independent place in the labour market was women 's claim to a voice in the political market allowed . |
| 4 | In a commentary broadcast on July 16 , Tehran Radio said that the Damascus Declaration had become an " axis of discord within the Arab community " due to the pull of opposing forces representing Egypt 's claim to a prominent position in future Gulf politics , to United States determination to maintain its supremacy in the region and to the belief on the part of some Gulf Arabs that only a strictly regional system could guarantee their security . |
| 5 | He appealed for international support for Ukraine 's claim to an equivalent proportion of Soviet assets abroad , and criticized the inter-republican agreement of Dec. 5 on the division of debt , which Ukraine had refused to sign [ see p. 38656 ] . |
| 6 | In 1988 , after the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza had started their uprising , he made another fateful decision , renouncing Jordan 's claim to the West Bank and handing over responsibility to the Palestine Liberation Organisation . |
| 7 | The state stands for , in an abstract sense , the final repository of agreement of the people to be ruled , and therefore an ultimate legitimation , backed up in the last instance , by the state 's claim to the monopoly of legitimate use of force . |
| 8 | Philippe , Duke of Orleans , brother to the future Louis XIV was raised as a girl to ensure that he would n't pose a threat to his elder sibling 's claim to the throne of France . |
| 9 | Nor is ‘ bottom ’ the only foundation on which Mr Smith 's claim to the succession rests : a heart attack may not , on the face of it , appear to be an especially useful item in a would-be prime minister 's CV . |
| 10 | But when MacDonald formed the first Labour Government in 1924 , he brushed aside Morel 's claim to the Foreign Office and took the job himself , combining it with the premiership . |
| 11 | Ken took no part in Jacobite plots against William III , but all the non-jurors became very unpopular when England was at war with France , which supported James 's claim to the throne . |
| 12 | Yet this remained Anselm 's claim to the end , though it is clear that Anselm based his case , not on any documentary evidence , but on the consensus of the community of which he was the head . |
| 13 | Marxism 's claim to the status of a science proper thus functions as a device to avoid the historicity through which it accounts for other phenomena . |
| 14 | Indeed , as the price of Valois support Isabella may have offered to renounce her son 's claim to the French crown . |
| 15 | To the English , no settlement could be envisaged without consideration of their king 's claim to the crown of France , a claim which might be compensated for by the grant of other territories in France , to be held in full sovereignty . |
| 16 | They could not give the impression that they doubted the validity of their king 's claim to the crown of France , for by so doing they would have thrown doubt upon the symbolic and legal importance of Henry VI 's French coronation , rendering illegal the very authority ( the royal one ) upon which the validity of the grants made to Englishmen ( and others ) in Normandy depended . |
| 17 | In England , Edward III was to make the fullest use of the military capabilities of his sons , in particular of Edward , Black Prince , whose employment in the war stressed the importance to the family of their father 's claim to the French throne . |
| 18 | In A.D. 312 , Maxentius was killed and his army routed at the Battle of Milvian Bridge , leaving Constantine 's claim to the throne unchallenged . |
| 19 | God 's claim to the firstborn goes back to the night of the Passover ( Exodus 12 ) . |
| 20 | For example , Albert Sloman , Vice-Chancellor of the new University of Essex , while accepting the requirement of serving " national need " , considers that expansion has not been achieved without a " drop in standards " , despite Robbins 's claim to the contrary . |
| 21 | His most important assignment during that period was an appearance at the Lateran Council of 1139 , where he defended Stephen 's claim to the throne of England by attacking Matilda 's legitimacy . |
| 22 | So vague , indeed , is Mustakimzade that one is led to suspect that he doubts the validity of Abdulkerim 's claim to the Muftilik . |
| 23 | In the case of Abdulkerim , Mustakimzade takes refuge in vagueness , seemingly even questioning Abdulkerim 's claim to the Muftilik , while the other authors ignore one set of facts in the early sources , those concerning the period of his Muftilik , and choose rather to link his Muftilik with another fact also mentioned in the early sources , that concerning his death . |
| 24 | At a dinner hosted by King Juan Carlos , King Hassan avoided mention of Morocco 's claim to the Spanish-administered North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla , but King Juan Carlos repeated his call for a referendum to be held in Western Sahara ( Spain 's former colony ) to allow the people to decide their own future . |
| 25 | The most informative is undoubtedly that caused by Gundovald 's claim to the throne , since Gregory of Tours not only allocates a considerable amount of space to the rebellion itself , but also provides evidence in the ensuing books of the Histories which illuminates the nature of the " pretender's ' following . |
| 26 | Right , members will recall from the last meeting , there was an issue of it at Shrewsbury College , because of the transfer of the screw and ribbon factory to the college , or the College 's claim to the transfer of the screw and ribbon factory to them , because of the er , the cre the vesting of the College as an in independent body under the Higher Education Act . |
| 27 | The exhibition therefore is nothing more than a rerun of Celant 's European power-broking of the lat 1960s , a European and specifically a Milanese challenge to America 's claim to the avant-garde which nevertheless included many successful ( male ) American artists of the period . |