The phrase "a frequent claim" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing assertions or statements that are often made or repeated.
Example: "In the debate about climate change, a frequent claim is that human activity is the primary cause of global warming."
Alternatives: "a common assertion" or "a regular statement".
A frequent claim is that computer operating systems are like languages: Once a standard becomes dominant, it is practically impossible for anyone to consider an alternative, even a better one.
Nor did the probe conclude GM had intentionally put profits ahead of safety, a frequent claim by the firm's critics.GM has already taken steps to improve its handling of safety issues, company officials insist, including the recent appointment of a corporate-safety tsar.
"I was never actually asked to hack a phone – it wasn't much use, in that terrorists tend not to leave a voicemail message saying, 'We're putting the bomb at so-and-so.'" Rebekah Brooks wanted the paper to be more campaigning, a frequent claim among prospective editors, but Brooks meant it.
Tata says it was invited in by the government of Chhattisgarh and that it is bringing economic opportunity to the area, a frequent claim made by corporations.
Interestingly, "Tea Party Nationalism" debunks a frequent claim that there is a link between unemployment levels and Tea Party membership.
The official Syrian Arab News Agency portrayed the shoot-down, which it said took place over Syrian territory, as evidence of Israeli collusion with the militants — a frequent claim by Syrian officials, and one that Israel rejects.
At another rally for Mrs. Clinton in Johnson City, in New York's Southern Tier, the president challenged Mr. Bush's frequent claim that a vote for Mr. Gore would be a vote for the status quo.
The legal issue is connected to a larger question: how to deal with the frequent claim that online speech is a special form of playacting, in which a threat is as unreal as an attack on an avatar in World of Warcraft.
The study provides an empirical basis for evaluating the frequent claim that the declining fortunes of university presses can be blamed primarily on declines in monographic purchasing by academic libraries.
Mr. Ragone said it demonstrated that Mr. McCall's frequent claim to have been a good fiscal steward was overstated.
The US has never charged him with any offense; a 2009 justice department filing contesting his habeas corpus petition walked back the government's frequent claim that Zubaydah was a senior member of al-Qaida, calling him merely an "affiliate".
