The claim extends above all to Kirkuk, the center of northern Iraq's oil production.
Some claim extending marriage to same sex couples weakens the concept, but the reverse is true.
Instead, the Court explicitly acknowledged the policy goal of promoting innovation, holding that the plaintiff's ownership claim extended only to the opportunity to acquire the rights to the Chocolate device.
It said geological features dictated that China's claim extended to the edge of the continental shelf off the Chinese coast, about 124 miles from Japan's Okinawa island.
The Pinto family's claim extends across an area designated as a nature reserve, which Simas refers to as "the lung of the Zona Sul," Rio's ritzy southern section.
On some Chinese maps, China's territorial claims extend south nearly to the coast of Indonesia — a source of aggravation to top Obama administration officials.
The Chinese claims extend well into the continental shelves of Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, Taiwan and Indonesia, which has ticked off each of those countries; but they've been unable to act collectively on the issue, and China has been effective at manoeuvring them into dealing bilaterally rather than as a group.
The strongest claims extend Ibn Ezra's influence even to the realm of legal theory, asserting that the fourteen principles enunciated by Maimonides at the beginning of his Book of Commandments were inspired and to a degree modeled upon the principles set down by Ibn Ezra in Yesod Mora.
Still, the increasing number of people claiming extended unemployment insurance indicates hiring has not picked up.
Here in the greater Seattle area, a fifth of those claiming extended unemployment benefits are 55 and older.
