Sentence examples for an equal claim on from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Stoppard's Housman makes an equal claim on us.

The largest lesson I learned in Midland still guides me as governor of Texas: Everyone, from immigrant to entrepreneur, has an equal claim on this country's promise.

If a case could be made for using English as the new lingua franca, the time for that seems to have passed because the Chinese can perhaps make an equal claim on behalf of their language.

Today, with so many seats in the ninety-dollar range, City Opera can no longer be called a bargain, and the Met, with its wider range of ticket prices and its introduction of high-tech subtitles, has an equal claim on the populist franchise.

Instead, it is expected to involve bureaucratic warfare against an organization with an equal claim to being on the right side of the law.

On the other hand, he claims that it "involves an equal claim to all the means of happiness," which implies much less, namely that everyone rightfully deserves equal opportunities to make themselves happy.

Dominus, though owned by a Bordeaux legend, can make an equal claim to Napa history.

So why not, we came to think, create a system that included all types of teaching for all types of intelligence, and indeed for the not-so-bright who, after all, had equal claim on a decent self-respecting place in society.

It became obvious that she and Rascal Flatts had equal claims on the room.

They each had equal claims on this, the last currency of the farm.

Many just seem to have a proper 'work-life balance': happy where they are, with their families having equal claims on them.