(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".
Reclamation
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of reclaiming.
(n.) Representation made in opposition; remonstrance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The target enzymes, acetylcholinesterase (for phosphamidon and carbaryl) and Mg2+ ATPase (for DDT and fenvalerate) have been assayed during exposure and reclamation of these insecticides in M. monoceros.
(2) After meeting the summit host, the president of the Philippines, Obama said the US and Manila had agreed on the need for “bold steps to lower tensions, including pledging to halt reclamation, new construction and militarisation of disputed islands in the South China Sea”.
(3) In ongoing lawsuits objecting to the island reclamation scheme , the Jakarta Legal Aid association has argued these new islands are occupying traditional fishing grounds, while the sediment and dredging work have driven away fish from the remaining waters.
(4) None of these alternatives would be a silver bullet – they need to be undertaken alongside habitat reclamation.
(5) Land reclamation measures carried out on the territory of a flood-plain-paludal focus of tularemia change the ecological and biocenotic links, which leads to the formation of a meadow-field focus with other-than-before sources and vectors of tularemia infection.
(6) Head east to find Barriera di Milano , a once-deprived quarter now blooming with artists’ studios and microbusinesses in places such as the 1912 warehouse complex Docks Dora, which is flanked by another showpiece reclamation project, Parco Aurelio Peccei .
(7) The comparative toxicity of halogen-containing oxidizing agents was investigated with the purpose of their utilization as urine preservatives in water reclamation systems.
(8) The Chinese dredger barges can reach up to 30 metres below the surface, cutting out and scooping up huge quantities of sand and coral for land reclamation projects.
(9) The public prosecutor also announced he had sequestered land belonging to the Saudi billionaire, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal at Toshka, in the south of the country which is part of a desert reclamation project.
(10) Reclamation of bicarbonate is highly regulated in the proximal tubule: an increase in luminal [HCO3-], flow rate and arterial PCO2 increase, while alkalinization of the peritubular surface inhibits bicarbonate absorption.
(11) South China Sea islands are Chinese plan to militarise zone, claims US Read more The shadow foreign minister, Tanya Plibersek , told ABC radio: “Australia and our Asian neighbours in particular and others in the region have an expectation of being able to move freely now and in the future in this area.” She urged the government to take a softly-softly approach to China’s land reclamation program.
(12) Hunt added that he would require all spoil from future dredging in central and northern Queensland to be placed at the “shoreline, near to shore or land reclamation disposal”.
(13) The immediate and ultimate objectives of the project were threefold: (a) to demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing as a hydroponic medium untreated municipal wastewater having relatively high mean values for BOD and mineral content; (b) to achieve the growth of useful plants on such readily available hydroponic media, thereby saving on fertilizers and scarce water resources; and (c) reclamation of the wastewater through biological purification leading to the gradual depletion of the nutritive constituents.
(14) Reefs are ideal locations for land reclamation because they rise far above the surrounding seabed, making them accessible to dredger barges.
(15) Dog surveillance, land reclamation and changes in population habits during the last few decades are considered to be responsible for the reduction of transmission to man.
(16) The US Bureau of Reclamation , for example, manages 337 reservoirs, and a science advisor to the agency, Dave Raff, says the bureau is taking on the emissions accounting task.
(17) The US and its allies have a very different view than China over the rules of the road in the South China Sea.” Beijing says it will not stop reclamation work, with China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, describing its sovereignty claims as “hard as a rock”.
(18) Earlier this week, the US deputy secretary of state, Antony Blinken, warned that Chinese land reclamation work was damaging stability in the region and could even lead to conflict.
(19) First is that it goes the way of Badia East, razed for high-rises, or Bar Beach, site of a massive land reclamation project that is turning nine square kilometres of Atlantic Ocean into what developers are touting as “the Manhattan of west Africa”, a residential and commercial mini-city called Eko Atlantic .
(20) Newborn Sprague-Dawley rat pups were found to have reduced net tubular reclamation of the beta-amino acid taurine in vivo.