Sentence examples similar to a righteous claim from inspiring English sources

The Brazilian contention is a little like the righteous claim of a new office‐holder to his turn robbing the public till.

Incidentally, the righteous claim of boosting democracy was already undermined by ANEL leader Panos Kammenos, who said that the Greferendum would be withdrawn if the creditors would accept their counteroffer.

The League of Righteous claimed on its Web site that the man was an American officer and said his abduction came in response to the United States military's arrest of its members.

"[P]ainting is 'impure'," he argued, tired of righteous claims otherwise.

A splinter group of the Shiite Mahdi Army called Asa'ib al-Haq, or the League of the Righteous, claimed responsibility for the kidnappings.

O'Rourke dismisses our self-righteous claim to have effected a revolution during the 60s.

The fight over Viacom is digging in for years of litigation as each side holds on to its own self-righteous claim to the poorly performing media company.

The tempering influence of the doves allows the hawks to claim a righteous cause when going to war.

Star casts itself as a righteous truth-teller which never claimed cigarettes are safe, but is now doing its utmost to make them so.

When asked, of course, the vast majority of Americans claim to be a righteous bunch: 89 percent said it was unacceptable to cheat on their income taxes, according to the I.R.S. Oversight Board's 2008 Taxpayer Attitude Survey.

SOPA sponsors claim to be fighting a righteous war against online piracy, an issue that must indeed be addressed.