Sentence examples for claim powerful from inspiring English sources

This week is the fourth anniversary of the execution of Troy Davis, a man with an innocence claim powerful enough to garner national attention and persuade the Supreme Court to take the nearly unprecedented step of ordering a federal district court to conduct a hearing to determine whether Troy Davis was factually innocent.

Further, he claims "powerful celebrities within the church, particularly film star Tom Cruise, receive private benefits through the exploitation of low-wage labour and other use of church assets".

At the same time, the claimed powerful support in tackling technical problems of any degree of difficulty conflicts with TRIZ diffusion in industrial settings, which is relatively low according to insights into product development practices.

In the world of high-powered telescopes -- where rival institutes compete to claim "most powerful" specimens -- Paranal's is one of the best.

In a profession where reputation is everything, Mr. Solmssen, 53, can claim a powerful professional pedigree.

That claim was powerful in the '90s, when we were taught that fat is bad.

It's apparently acceptable to blame women's depression on the fact that they're women, but it's not OK to claim a powerful medication formulated from synthetic hormones could be at fault.

But what stole the show was Microsoft's claim that powerful computers running the new operating system can out muscle systems from Sun Microsystems sunw and IBM ibm.

Finally, in line with Geels' claim that powerful incumbents can slow down transition processes in cities [6], the contribution by Viétor et al. [19] shows that large-sized energy companies with the authority to manage and operate energy infrastructures impede the diffusion of promising low carbon energy technology in urban areas.

And of course, identity claims are powerful sources of motivation and "bias".

But neither inflated claims nor powerful names were of any use.