How To Use Lay claim In A Sentence
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Nomaga had become something of an enigmatic legend in the School, as he had ascended ranks faster than the vast majority could lay claim to.
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Yet who else can lay claim to winning four gold medals at four successive Olympic Games?
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Five Asian countries lay claim to the islands.
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The following spring, other birds - including bluebirds, tree swallows, house wrens and a host of other secondary cavity-nesting species - scout out and lay claim to these secondhand houses.
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Do you mean that only Nobel laureates and their peers can lay claim to the hallowed occupation of research?
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I say whoever gets there first – design or self-assembly – the winner gets to lay claim to the more reasonable "expectation".
A Good Saturday Evening Flick
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If the land really belongs to you, why don't you lay claim to it?
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There had come, as the years went by, a few recruits; but faces were missing: the two Tabors had gone, and Uncle Joe Davey could no longer lay claim to the patriarchship; he had laid it down with a half-sigh and gone his way.
The Conquest of Canaan
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But we don't lay claim to comparable expertise in every area.
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She was scrawny and flea-ridden, but her manners were impeccable as she gently placed her paw on my arm, as if to lay claim to me.
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A council estate in York can lay claim to its very own Top Gun, as one of its sons gets set to join a parade of graduate pilots to receive their wings.
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These difficulties are due to the conflicts that arise between both institutions that lay claim to democratic legitimacy.
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Officially, Japan does not lay claim to the Spratly archipelago as it renounced such claims under the San Francisco Treaty, but it expresses concern over the situation in the area.
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I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long.
Select Temperance Tracts
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Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of an ancient beast that can lay claim to the dubious title of the horniest animal ever to walk the Earth.
Horniest dinosaur ever discovered ? Kosmoceratops ? found in Utah
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I am of the opinion that a cardigan is by definition a button-front sleeved garment – vests rather unfairly can lay claim to anything without sleeves.
Bury Me With The ‘Lo On | ATTACKERMAN
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If the land really belongs to you, why don't you lay claim to it?
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A decade of my life would be condensed into a couple of lines aimed at convincing some other submanager in some other office to lay claim to my remaining years.
Reconstituted (novel excerpt)
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Dole himself did not expect to lay claim to the title of presumptive nominee until after the March 26 primary in California.
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Few women can lay claim to the word "magnificent", but Currie is now surely one of them.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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It was inevitable that women would lay claims to enter the public domain.
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If the land really belongs to you, why don't you lay claim to it?
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Lay claim to the colleagues amicability and the mutual aid spirit, make employee self-moving continuously enterprising, brave to beg to change.
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In the name of tradition, authorities lay claim to the power to manage with mantras of expansive truth and clarity seldom attained in the profane world of experimental science.
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Which of these could be allowed to lay claim to being the true representative of that religion?
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Unlike many previous entries, the Americans can justly lay claim to its sporting birth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Philip feared Edward would lay claim to the Scottish crown.
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With his victory in Florida officially certified, Bush announced new moves to lay claim to the White House.
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Cherie Burns has written a bracing, sex-and-shopping account of that life, suggesting that haute couture provided a cloistered young debutante a way to "lay claim to herself" and become a sophisticated socialite.
She Wore It Well
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I can legitimately lay claim to have done something that millions of God gospellers from all over the globe have for thousands of years said that the mysterious bloke called Jesus Christ is gonna do.
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Fairfax tells me that he is a suitor, eager to lay claim to a girl who is now only eleven.
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But though in theory every living man and woman is merely an ancestor or ancestress born again and therefore should be his or her equal, in practice they appear to admit that their forefathers of the remote _alcheringa_ or dream time were endowed with many marvellous powers which their modern reincarnations cannot lay claim to, and that accordingly these ancestral spirits were more to be reverenced, were in fact more worshipful, than their living representatives.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
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We could end up with a scenario in which the Republic of Ireland can lay claim to a play-off place.
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A stranger who said he was my father's brother had arrived to lay claim to his fortune.
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In retaliation, Teresa tried to lay claim to the Barberini fiefs in the Kingdom of Naples, but she did not pursue this very far.
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If you delay claiming for more than three months, you can not normally get the pension backdated.
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Anyone who has fallen in love and crash-landed can lay claim to one of those chalky outlines.
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Which of them is at home and who can lay claim to owning what?
Times, Sunday Times
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Normally considered incurable in allopathy, it took Dr. Kabra 14 years of dedicated hard work to lay claim to having finally found a cure for leucoderma.
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I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long.
Select Temperance Tracts
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The end result is that a tiny minority is allowed to lay claim to public opinion.
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He accepts that it is impossible for mortal man to lay claim to attain, or to possess, perfect Truth.
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In a strange twist of irony, players who played the past year overseas say they are too worn down to participate, while players who didn't play claim they are nowhere near game shape.
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The grounds lay claim to an ancient oak tree - reputed to be over 600 years old - that is listed on the prestigious Tree Registry of Ireland.
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We could end up with a scenario in which the Republic of Ireland can lay claim to a play-off place.
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Forty-eight square miles of good sound fame your not inerudite correspondent can conscientiously lay claim to; and although there is, with regret I admit it, a considerable portion of the square superficies alluded to, waste and uncultivated moor, yet I can say, wid that racy touch of genial and expressive pride which distinguishes men of letters in general, that the other portions of this fine district are inhabited by a multitudinity of population in the highest degree creditable to the prolific powers of the climate.
The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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The excess for baggage loss and baggage delay claims is €100, for money loss claims it is €65.
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It was inevitable that women would lay claims to enter the public domain.
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Philip feared Edward would lay claim to the Scottish crown.
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I can legitimately lay claim to have done something that millions of God gospellers from all over the globe have for thousands of years said that the mysterious bloke called Jesus Christ is gonna do.
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These difficulties are due to the conflicts that arise between both institutions that lay claim to democratic legitimacy.
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The few places with more than fifty thousand inhabitants were, comparedto present-day cities with the same population, rich in scientific and artistictreasures When Munich numbered sixty thousand souls, it was already on itsway to becoming one of the first German art centers; today nearly everyfactory town has reached this number, if not many times surpassed it, yetsome cannot lay claim to the slightest real values.
Mein Kampf
