The phrase "a weaker claim" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the strength or validity of an argument or assertion, indicating that it is less convincing or supported than another claim.
Example: "While both arguments have merit, the second one presents a weaker claim that lacks sufficient evidence."
Alternatives: "a less convincing assertion" or "a less robust argument."
Third, Justice Frankfurter's views were dissenting views, and the dispute before us, when compared to Coleman, presents a much stronger claim, not a weaker claim, for constitutional justiciability.
In general this is not quite true, but a weaker claim holds.
This is a weaker claim than the neo-classical coherence theory would make.
A weaker claim is that while he is not always dreaming, he cannot rule out, at any given moment, that he is now dreaming (the Now Dreaming Doubt; for a fuller discussion of both versions, see Newman 2010).
A weaker claim, that a system started in any state would go arbitrarily close to each other microscopic state is also false, and even if true would not do the job needed.
Rather than holding that testimony transmits warrant or justification or knowledge, a weaker claim is that it yields to the hearer only some (pro tanto) epistemic reason to believe the speaker's assertion (Pritchard 2004; Graham 2006a).
It makes what you could call a weak claim on its source-text.
However, a company that wants to send out threatening letters, knowing that it has a weak claim, would find it fairly easy to satisfy the good faith requirement of the statute.
The Deal Professor argues that Cerberus has a weak claim because it attributes the adverse change to a decline in the economy, rather than a specific change at Innkeepers.
(This seems a weak claim: one of her legal team's most shocking omissions was its failure to mention at trial that he had served a long prison sentence for rape).
Dr. Dana Sachs, an associate professor of dermatology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, wrote in an e-mail after looking at Algenist's dossier that "the claims on cell regeneration and elastin synthesis are based on in vitro models, which is hard to extrapolate to in vivo, and again no statistical significance is presented, so this is a weak claim".
