(v. t.) To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.
(v. t.) To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The maximum percentage difference between observations was 46% (AVER).
(2) Thereafter, ministers alone should make such warnings public, and then only when there is a real prospect that they might aver a tragedy.
(3) Correlation coefficients for measurements obtained by two independent observers in 44 studies ranged from r = 0.87 (AVER) to r = 0.96 (TPFR) but spontaneous changes of up to 52% occurred (AVFR).
(4) The German and the European common interests coincide, Merkel avers, echoing Helmut Kohl's mantra in the era of Maastricht and German reunification 20 years ago.
(5) The protest camp in Ramadi was, Maliki averred, an al-Qaida headquarters.
(6) There are others who might aver that the bathroom bashfulness would be unusual during a live burglary, never mind one taking place under the obvious time pressures that would be dictated by it happening in one of the most heavily protected gated communities in one of the most security-obsessed countries on Earth.
(7) Gated blood pool studies were performed one week apart in 42 patients and between study correlation coefficients for these measurements ranged from r = 0.58 (TPER) to r = 0.99 (PFR) but there were spontaneous changes in measurements of up to 82% (AVER).
(8) The averaged acoustic evoked responses (AAER) exhibit more sensitivity to halothane than the averaged visual evoked responses (AVER).
(9) Like vacuoles, "peroxisomal" fractions isolated from yeast spheroplasts as described by Avers[1] contain only one catalase protein, catalase A.
(10) Residents aver that women's "naturally" weaker constitutions and a moral imperative to worry places them at greater risk for nerves.
(11) Prince declares war on touts as his ticket sales are postponed Read more Paisley Park, the lyrics aver, is filled with laughing children on see-saws and “colourful people” with expressions that “speak of profound inner peace”, whatever they look like.
(12) Authors of most textbooks of dermatology and dermatopathology consider guttate parapsoriasis and digitate dermatosis to be variants of small plaque parapsoriasis which, they aver, is not related to mycosis fungoides.
(13) Acute toxicity, androgenic, gonadotropic, estrogenic and aphrodisiac effect of the whole medical plant Lithospermum aver arvense and its seeds was investigated on white rats and white mice.
(14) An assessment was made of the reproducibility (between study differences) interobserver variability and intraobserver variability of 7 radionuclide measurements describing both resting left ventricular ejection (ejection fraction--EF, average ejection rate--AVER, peak ejection rate--PER, time to peak ejection rate--TPER) and filling (average filling rate--AVFR, peak filling rate--PFR, time to peak filling rate--TPFR).
(15) A Corbyn-led Labour can never win the 2020 UK general election, they aver.
(16) After operation, despite the clinical improvement, the alterations of AVERs or DPs were very marked and in some cases became even more important than before.
(17) Important changes in AVER (in amplitude and latency) were found in the patients with tumours on the midline or in one of the frontal lobes.
(18) But the Catholic church, avers Francis, is not an exclusive community of the just, but a big tent of sinners.
(19) He averred that the whippings had made him "one of the best artists in the world".
(20) Should the CIA or JSOC wish to convince the president to do so, they must aver that they have “near certainty that the target is present”, civilians won’t be harmed, “capture is not feasible” and “no other reasonable alternatives exist”.
Claim
Definition:
(v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
(v./.) To proclaim.
(v./.) To call or name.
(v./.) To assert; to maintain.
(v. i.) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
(n.) A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
(n.) A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.
(n.) The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.
(n.) A loud call.
Example Sentences:
(1) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
(2) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(3) It transpired that in 65% of the analysed advertisements explicit or implicit claims were made.
(4) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
(5) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
(6) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(7) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(8) Since 1887, winter green is claimed to have caused dermatitis and to have been responsible for "idiosyncrasy".
(9) Doctors may plausibly make special claims qua doctors when they are treating disease.
(10) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(11) We are better off in.” Out campaigners have claimed that the NHS could be badly hit by a decision to stay in the EU.
(12) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
(13) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
(14) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
(15) Gove said in the interview that he did not want to be Tory leader, claiming that he lacked the "extra spark of charisma and star quality" possessed by others.
(16) Much has been claimed about the source of its support: at one extreme, it is said to divide the right-of-centre vote and crucify the Conservatives .
(17) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
(18) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
(19) They also claim their electricity and water were cut off, despite frequent official complaints to police, who Lessena said served as middlemen between the owners and the tenants.
(20) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".