Sentence examples for claim to recognition from inspiring English sources

So John Goodlad of Shetland and Margaret Flaws of the Orkney island of Wyre led the drafting of this declaration: a clear statement of the northern isles' claim to recognition, subsequently endorsed by the signatures of scores of representative islanders.

Every black soldier's portrait was a claim to recognition: to fight for the nation was literally a claim to being seen as a man and a citizen, where slavery had made him — and his family — invisible.

Through his marriage to Anne de Laval, granddaughter of Frederick of Aragon, deposed king of Naples, the family derived its pretension to the kingdom of Naples and the claim to recognition at the French court as foreign princes.

Restrictive naturalisation policies maintain the frame of the immigrant as a foreigner, without a legitimate claim to recognition and equal treatment (Hansen and Weil, 2001).

The International Federation of Football Associations FIFA, from the acronym of the Geneva-based federation's name in French has a claim to global recognition by dint of being the world umbrella for all the regional and national governing bodies, and because it runs the planet's most watched team tournament, the quadrennial World Cup.

They also claim to use visual recognition as well.

After all, it seems to be working for Manchester United and Liverpool, the only English soccer clubs that can reasonably make a claim to worldwide audience and recognition.

After last winning a Brit Award in 1995, the Brit-poppers return to claim recognition for their contribution to music seventeen years later.

Not that comfortable with the leadership role Feedback Form DE student, male.This unease seems to have arisen from their understanding of the teacher role as a claim to expertise rather than a recognition that PAL is founded on more co-operative prinicples.

The FSM applied to the UN for recognition of its claim to an extended continental shelf boundary.

But they were never enough to get the Confederacy what, failing overt intervention, it most wanted from Britain: formal recognition of its claim to independence, diplomatic support, and a protected supply of arms, ships, and loans.