The phrase "associations claim" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to statements or assertions made by various organizations or groups regarding a particular issue or topic.
Example: "According to the report, several associations claim that the new policy will have a negative impact on small businesses."
Alternatives: "organizations assert" or "groups state".
Farming associations claim the true number is closer to 3,000.
Housing associations claim that being forced to sell assets under the Tory plan will blunt their incentives to build, too.Not so, say the Tories, who promise to build a new home to replace every one sold.
Taxi associations claim Uber routes its payments through headquarters in the Netherlands to minimise its corporation tax payments in France, the UK and Germany – in a similar manner to Apple and Starbucks, which have found themselves in the firing line for the practice.
Residents at one of the country's biggest housing associations claim they have had to put up with months of problems ranging from broken boilers to leaking roofs – and now they face having their heating forcibly disconnected for five months of the year.
So far, the high-tech trade associations claim legislative victories on taxes, antitrust laws and tariffs, among others.
To justify such practices, professional associations claim variations in qualifications that might occur because of differences in the number of patient contacts or in practical experience.
In whatever states adopted it, the agencies said, the rule could subject tenants' associations, claims adjusters, tax preparers, real estate agents, investment bankers, business planners, hospitals, labor unions and others to penalties.
The followers of these associations claimed that such technicians degraded dentistry, would aid public services in increasingly damaging the job market for dentists and would encourage the formation of false professionals.
The lower courts dismissed the freedom-of-association claim using the same logic that they did for speech: Heffernan didn't exercise his right to free association, they held, because he didn't intend to be identified as part of the Spagnola campaign.
Jurin found a new attorney and tried again, and even got a surprising intermediate win on his "false association" claim.
Slip op. at 14. Let me restate that in plain English: Ginsburg is saying that when your free speech concerns arise in the context of a free association claim, you're only entitled to the lighter speech analysis.
