Sentence examples for a claim upon from inspiring English sources

Because Frost is so mercurial, many people feel they have a claim upon him.

Respondents moved to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.

Once we recognize that someone is dying and that dying people have a claim upon us, things usually become more humane and compassionate.

This is partially due to misunderstanding the nature of money, which is best thought of not as an independent "thing", but rather as a claim upon society.

329, 331—332, 3 L.Ed.2d 327. 2 For this reason alone the complaint failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.

Respondent challenged the right of petitioner to seek relief in the District Court by the defense in its answer that the complaint fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.

It has not been penalized for failing to accede to an excessive or extravagant claim, but for failing to make reasonably prompt settlement of a claim which, upon due inquiry, has been pronounced just in every respect.

Any one who has lost his way has at all times a claim even upon the gods, wherefore in my distress I draw near to your stream, and cling to the knees of your riverhood.

But in the world of pseudoscience another popular approach is to make a claim based upon some image.

Virtually all of this is based upon unfounded representations that we are experiencing a known human-caused climate crisis, a claim based upon speculative theories, contrived data and totally unproven modeling predictions.

The respective interests of Roby and the Colehours in the lands at the date of Roby's bankruptcy could have been determined in a suit or proceeding to which they and Roby's assignee in bankruptcy were parties, so that the purchaser at the assignee's sale would have acquired a title discharged from any claim upon them by either of the Colehours.