The phrase "claim of control" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about a situation where someone is asserting their power or authority over something. For example, "Jack's claim of control over the project created an uncomfortable atmosphere."
For more than two years now China has been buzzing the islands by air and sea to challenge Japan's claim of control, and last November included them in an "Air Defence Identification Zone".
This analysis reviews the engineering emphasis in different countries on technical problem solving and outlines four contemporary challenges to the corollary claim of control over technological innovation.
Its geographic extent, however, is always subject to interpretation since its claim of "control" is a function of the degree to which it can secure the road network.
The new arrangement with Australia will restore a substantial American footprint near the South China Sea, a major commercial route — including for American exports — that has been roiled by China's disputed claims of control.
Tensions over the conflicting claims of control came to a head on Saturday when General Hiftar's convoy, on its way to the international airport, was attacked as he sped through a checkpoint run by fighters from the western mountain town of Zintan, according to rebel leaders and an army spokesman.
It's not by chance that the system of borders that we have today emerges as cartography advances the ability of people to depict the world at a very large scale, because then it becomes possible to draw lines on maps and to then use those lines to make claims of control over territory.
The conference, proposed by Portugal in pursuance of its special claim to control of the Congo estuary, was necessitated by the jealousy and suspicion with which the great European powers viewed one another's attempts at colonial expansion in Africa.
A cheaper solution in which British submarines sailed from French or American bases has practical difficulties (and would make the claim of independent control perhaps conclusively unsustainable).
In a letter to the newspaper, the Anti-Defamation League called the Tatum editorial "insidious, and an anti-Semitic canard employed by anti-Semites, racists and conspiracy theorists through the centuries to bolster their absurd claim of Jewish control".
Jocelin gave up any claim to control of the abbey, and the abbey gave the bishopric a number of estates.
