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lay claim
1. that she could lay claim to was sold
2. The estates in the mountains, the never visited, decrepit palazzos, everything that she could lay claim to was sold
3. Had it been the simply immeasurable vastness of the vista around them, this huge shaft that no mind could lay claim to even imagining it? Was it the sudden realization of having returned home in a most inexplicable, wondrous, and even uncanny fashion? Was it the combination of both? What had weakened his strong, determined mind? What had broken a man who was ready to give up his life for his unborn child, for a different, if not a better future? Hilderich could not tell, and only thought that it was an ineffable loss
4. In addition, the absence of substantial evidence linking Nixon to Watergate as recently claimed by Senator Ervin in Cleveland and Wilbur Mills on TV has prompted the majority of the Judiciary Committee to lay claim to authority not granted them by the Constitution, that is to impeach the President for other than constitutional grounds
5. only ones who can lay claim to God’s household
6. From one end of the doctrinal spectrum to the other, there are unfortunately, many, many groups that lay claim to be the only true representatives of Christ on earth!!
7. While the discoverer should not be denied all reward for efforts of discovery, neither should he selfishly presume to lay claim to all of the advantages and blessings to be derived from the uncovering of nature's hoarded resources
8. If you chance to secure wealth by flights of genius, if your riches are derived from the rewards of inventive endowment, do not lay claim to an unfair portion of such rewards
9. 18 And so, for centuries, the Christian church has labored under great embarrassment because it dared to lay claim to those mysterious powers and privileges of the kingdom, powers and privileges which can be exercised and experienced only between Jesus and his spiritual believer brothers
10. It hurts me, of course it hurts me tremendously, but I still can’t lay claim on him or blame him for something
11. He will then lay claim to Divinity (claiming that he is
12. Ingrid was now able to lay claim to the discovery of the tunnel and the fame that went with it
13. you had to do was lay claim to a section of land and it was
14. “You will recall from my letter, which I see you have with you, that your brother in law set a timetable in his will during which your wife should lay claim to his estate
15. And with “credit” or “stock” taking the place of physical transfer of goods, it’s entirely likely no one at all owns all the stuff! Round-robins of never-end-ing paper and computer trails may, in fact, not lead to any particular human persons who can truly lay claim to owning all we don’t, as so few deal with real things
16. should be given plenty of territory to lay claim to
17. Rocky James could not lay claim to the most victims
18. Some humanoid Seconds are, thus, comparatively old, though the reptiles would scoff if they heard any of us lay claim to that adjective
19. They traveled with the hopes of a brand new life where all you had to do was lay claim to a section of land and it was written down and considered yours for free
20. History plainly shows that the march of civilization across the world has been one long, greedy, grabbing frenzy of trying to lay claim-to and own literally everything that isn’t nailed down or owned by others
21. lay claim to that,” Jason said with a grin
22. These aristocrats deem themselves the sons of crocodiles, in other words, descendants with the most exalted origins to which a human being can lay claim
23. I have four children, so I do lay claim to some expertise in the matter
24. There’s an international treaty saying no country can lay claim to anything that’s not on Earth
25. He could never grasp, though, how anyone lucky enough to be born in this country, in this century, could want anything other than as much life as he could possibly lay claim to
26. Fallen angels were usually senior securities that could always lay claim to some assets, even in the case of a bankruptcy
27. Otherwise, the company could end up being owned not by its shareholders but by its bondholders, who can lay claim to Amazon’s assets if they have no other way of securing the interest payments they are owed
28. Probably most speculators believe they have the odds in their favor when they take their chances, and therefore they may lay claim to a safety margin in their proceedings
29. He began to collect information regarding Pugachof’s rebellion, and endeavoured to procure a copy of one of the Pretender’s latest manifestoes, expecting to find in it a guide to the families that could lay claim to the Russian throne
30. The number of front doors that closed upon me because I could lay claim to no husband!
31. The best character in the book is the old duchess, for whose mystification Penelope’s scheme is planned, and who only at the climax discovers, like the rest of us, which of six men her niece has married, though all of them lay claim to that honor