Sentence examples for definite claim from inspiring English sources

It is still going strong some 212 years and four owners later, giving it a definite claim to being the oldest restaurant in London.

Its earlier influence upon foreign policy developed into a definite claim to conduct all negotiations with a foreign power, although the formal declaration of war and ratification of treaties were referred to the people.

The Cancer Committee had adopted the five-year surgical "cure" as the gold standard of successful treatment; hence, no definite claim could be made about the value of the therapy.

Based on the pilot test results, claims representing possible injuries were considered injury-related only if they represented care for an adolescent who also had a definite injury claim within a two-day period, and if the possible claim could be considered to represent care for the same injury as the definite claim.

Thus astrology, for example, fails to be a scientific theory because it cannot be falsified: although astrology seems to make predictions, these statements about the future are so vague, so general and abstract, that they cannot be tied down to definite claims about observations to be made at a definite time and place.

With its discussion of, and focus on, the obscure and the known, the poem has possible political ramifications, but it does not make any definite claims on politics to be more universal in its approach to life and death.

According to these guidelines, (definite) claims of therapeutic efficacy cannot be made on the basis of non-randomised trials unless the disease is so rare or prognosis so poor that controlled randomisation is practically impossible.

ROBERT LEOPOLD Livingston, N.J., Aug. 27, 2006 Another facet of interest is the difference between what Americans say and what they do, and especially how definite Americans claim they are.

In his essay Berthollet also challenged the idea that compounds unite in definite proportions, claiming instead that they could combine in variable proportions between certain limits, depending on physical circumstances.

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I have loved the preface to the "Lyrical Ballads" since my twenties, because I felt it was such a definite and brave claiming of poetry for a much wider section of life and experience than it could have been.