"claim" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He never again allowed personal rancor to divert attention from the nation's tenuous claim to independence.
- Justice Scalia said the fact that immigrants who had never been formally admitted into the country might have a more tenuous constitutional claim did not change the analysis.
- I do agree, however, that as opposed to laminectomy for sciatica, instrumentation and fusion have a very tenuous claim to effectiveness.
- (Also re: reputable group, worth pointing out that the same lab made tenuous claims about finding dark matter several years ago)
- This seems to be a rather tenuous claim.
- Earlier this year, he bought a 15th-century chateau in a small French village named Estaing, helping to solidify his family's tenuous claim to nobility.
- In Iraq it was a tenuous claim that Saddam possessed a nuclear capability and was preparing to use missiles against western targets.
- "From this tenuous claim you can actually hold up a project for 10 months and cost the Royal Court $40,000 in legal fees, which it doesn't have."
- In that moment, he had lost all sense of time and place, and any tenuous claim he'd still held to being civilized.
- Their tenuous claim to their former home came through Elizabeth's maxiage to Orfin.
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