Sentence examples for assert the claim from inspiring English sources

The dissenters would have barred the Oneida's claim under the equitable doctrine of laches, noting: [In 1795, the Oneidas] made no attempt to assert the claim, and their successors in interest waited 175 years before bringing suit to avoid a 1795 conveyance that the Tribe freely made, for a valuable consideration.

And it is interesting to note that one of the major obstacles to any lawsuit claiming violation of the Emoluments Clause, the ability of a private plaintiff to convince the court that it has "standing" to assert the claim, vanishes in an impeachment proceeding.

As the South has always done, they asserted the claim of states' rights at just the point when the shoe started to pinch, and not a moment before.

Without actual ouster, he said, the law allows a co-owner to assert a claim of adverse possession if the person asserting the claim has been in continuous, exclusive possession for 20 years or more.

Not only does successful completion of the protocol mean that the IdP is asserting the claim regarding the user, but it also proves that the user knows the claim value, providing an additional layer of user authentication.

He was quick to re-assert the claim to the French throne he inherited from Edward III, continuing what was later called the Hundred Years' War.

The ambassador said the company would be "successful in asserting the claims over the properties in question for the benefit of the Irish state".

The new orthodoxy asserted the claims of imagination and feeling against reason and of individual desire against social and moral convention.

But I can assert the hedged claim 'You are tall or of average height'.

His son and successor, Henry V of England, aware that Charles VI of France's mental illness had caused instability in France, invaded to assert the Plantagenet claims and won a near total victory over the French at the Battle of Agincourt.

To assert this claim, the effective mass treatment was applied [22].