Sentence examples for a higher claim from inspiring English sources

"Just because someone is a general, it doesn't mean he has a higher claim to patriotism than a journalist".

"Ronald Reagan had a higher claim than any other leader to have won the cold war for liberty," said his old comrade Lady Thatcher, the former British prime minister.

But the crux of Yad Vashem's argument refers to a higher claim to property left by Jewish Holocaust victims, particularly in Poland, where the prewar Jewish community of 3.5 million has now dwindled to several thousand.

Lady Thatcher once said he had "a higher claim than any other leader to have won the Cold War for liberty and he did it without a shot being fired".

It holds off on the final assignment until it has gone through all the other applications to make sure there are not other students who have a higher claim to a spot at that given school (because of higher test scores, a sibling at the school or whatever other criteria the school prioritizes), even if those students happened to rank the school lower on their list of preferences.

Avicenna explains the superiority of a highest type of efficient cause as follows: Where something is such that, whenever it exists, it produces the existence of something else by virtue of its own essence, and where its effect exists after absolute nonexistence and is permanent, then that thing has a higher claim to causality than other things.

Preferred stockholders have a higher claim on assets and earnings than owners of common stock (for example, they receive their dividends first), but they don't have voting rights.

Did General Accident really expect you to believe that people born on the 23rd have a higher claims rate than those born a day earlier?

Lewis supplies a long description of each woman and - with the detail of the painting and the idiosyncratic spelling of its title - stakes a high claim to authoritative knowledge and artistic mastery.

Sometimes patients have a high claim to physicians care.

Bonds have the merit of providing steady income, at rates that are now very high; they tend to be less volatile than stocks; and they have a higher legal claim on a company's assets.