Sentence examples for claim of states from inspiring English sources
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.
The plaintiff challenged Zezulka's claim of state [440 Mich .433] governmental immunity on two grounds.
Consequently, penalties imposed for violating the regulations add nothing to respondents' claim of state action.
Dr Ri's claim of state infanticide does not seem far-fetched.
(Of course, any attempt to prove spying would likely be met by a flimsy claim of state secrecy).
For Annan, as Weiss has noted, "Human rights transcended narrow claims of state sovereignty".
He also said that the government could not evade accountability with absurdly broad claims of state secrets.
His administration then used wildly broad claims of state secrets to thwart any accountability for this immoral practice.
Francis and Wainwright held applicable to a civil proceeding an inapplicable Rule of Criminal Procedure in order to defeat substantial claims of state prisoners.
His lawyers have tried to shut down court cases filed by victims of those policies, with the same extravagant claims of state secrets and executive power that Mr. Bush made.
