Sentence examples for claiming somewhat from inspiring English sources

Debate revolved around an Aussie style points system, with the remain side claiming, somewhat implausibly, it would increase migration.

Tarzan goes wild in Westminster It briefly seemed a curious decision by BBC producers when what appeared to be an elderly tramp arrived on screen claiming, somewhat dubiously, to know David Cameron personally.

Klose's Lazio team-mate Sergio Floccari showed no such qualms four months later, claiming, somewhat implausibly, to be unaware that he had handballed before scoring his team's opening goal against Atalanta.

But no sooner has this punitive party broken up and the hosts retired than the titular heroine turns up, accompanied by a black companion and claiming, somewhat spuriously, to be Jo's mother.

Now they are attacking the Iran NIE claiming, somewhat bizarrely, that the information it is based on is unreliable and that the analysis is suspect.

"Yes, 100%, it is connecting India and everybody is proud" he claims, somewhat unconvincingly.

Ataka's demand for a referendum would defuse the issue, he claimed, somewhat bafflingly.

He claimed, somewhat erroneously, that he had always opposed the Iraq war.

A worthy rival of Lazarus, Castro claimed (somewhat apocryphally) to have survived 600 assassination attempts.

(Asbury Park, New Jersey is named after him; Herbert Asbury claimed, somewhat tenuously, both Francis Asbury and Cotton Mather as ancestors).

The Qianlong emperor claimed, somewhat optimistically, that his dynasty's majestic virtue had penetrated every country under heaven.