Sentence examples for claiming recognition from inspiring English sources

In December 1734 Godfrey, with the support of Logan, wrote to the society, claiming recognition as the original inventor, but his claims were not acknowledged.

The principles of Clement and Ignatius became important when the church was faced by people claiming recognition for their special charismatic (spiritual) gifts and especially by Gnostic heretics claiming to possess secret oral traditions whispered by Jesus to his disciples and not contained in publicly accessible records such as the Gospels.

Despite this attempt to claim recognition, the elevator remains an anonymous product of a collaboration between various inventors, many of whom could not have known each other.

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

"While it remained a private thing, asexuality wasn't rendered an 'issue' for asexual individuals and there was no need to find a term and claim recognition for their identity".

Quelled for a time, baronial strife revived at the end of Joan's reign in a conflict between two branches of the Angevin family (those of Durazzo versus those of Provence) that claimed recognition as heirs of the queen.

The implementation of these policies has encouraged many who in the past concealed their ethnic identities, to be willing to openly claim recognition as a minority.

What I find problematic, and a continuation of the same behavior that Uber claims to want to fix, is that Uber and its external design firms, Wolf Olins and MCKL, claim to adopt inclusive principles, yet the voices all of these companies put forward to claim recognition are men.

But regardless of the way subjects reach the conviction that they must claim recognition for new, so far neglected or even worse demeaned aspects of their identity, the following question must be asked: From where do they gain the mental strength to at least temporarily withstand the disrespect or indifference of (at least many of) their surrounding others?

The practice of persons crossing the color line and attempting to claim recognition in another racial group different from the one they were believed to belong to was known as "passing," even when it was based on a person's ancestry.

Perhaps it's a bit like watching the West Indies playing cricket: our representatives on TV claiming rightful recognition for their brilliance.