The phrase "advanced a claim" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of putting forward or asserting a particular argument or position, often in a legal or formal context.
Example: "The lawyer advanced a claim that the evidence was inadmissible in court."
Alternatives: "asserted a claim" or "put forth a claim."
Although before he became king of Portugal he had advanced a claim to the Castilian throne (1354), he later helped Castile against Aragon (1358 and 1360).
There's a lot to consider here, but the important thing is that one of these papers has advanced a claim that's going to turn out to be wrong, and the consequences for people who cover politics and botch a story are -- ha ha, just kidding, there are none, don't be insane.
"I find myself in an odd position," he said, "because I'm ethically bound not to advance a claim I think is false".
Periodically in the past the cry has gone up, "Ballet Theater has become a real company at last!" Few would advance a claim so bold just now.
It limits the power of Congress in areas like speech, assembly and religion regardless of who might advance a claim -- citizen or not, "person" or not.
Math professors may sound as though they are simply advancing a claim about how, for college math, students need a mechanical skill that, while important for advanced calculations, has nothing to do with thinking for oneself.
Last year Mr. Schoeps advanced a similar legal claim to another Picasso painting, "Portrait of Ángel Fernández de Soto" (1903), which the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation sought to sell in an auction at Christie's in November 2006.
Some economists have advanced an even stronger claim — that there is no link, at least in developed countries, between absolute spending and well-being.
In Syria and Iraq, according to the president, America is "stopping ISIL's advance"—a questionable claim.
Some blogs advanced a related logical fallacy by claiming that this shows 'an increase in uncertainty.' However, if uncertainty over the cause of global warming were increasing, we would expect to see the percentage of papers rejecting or minimizing human-caused global warming increasing.
And in his written answers to the Judiciary Committee two years ago, he expressed some skepticism about the argument that strings attached to federal funding could amount to undue coercion on the states, referring to the "heavy burden one advancing such a claim would bear").
