Sentence examples for earnest claim from inspiring English sources

Individuals run hard in primaries, detailing their policy stands – although critics mocked Richard Nixon's flamboyantly earnest claim in 1968 that he had issued 167 position papers: they suggested he make it an even 170 by addressing the Vietnam War, the cities, and Civil Rights.

High-speed Web connections are, in other words, what begin to make credible Microsoft's earnest claim that it faces fierce competition.

As this battle plays out, there will be earnest claims about the good things that redevelopment has produced in cities like San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Emeryville.

Character detail is replaced by screamingly cliched pop-culture signifiers (Nic reads a Bukowski poem in earnest, claiming the writer saved his life "more than a few times"); the exposition is numbingly blunt (Dave discovers Nic's sketchbook, filled with creepy doodles that read "I can never give them up").

The things Earnest claimed to have done to Kati didn't match up with the medical examiner's report on what caused the child's death.

It attacked Jang as "worse than a dog" and accused him of working in earnest to claim power after Kim Jong-il's death two years ago.

When are we in America going to wake up and actually begin to live in earnest our claimed beliefs and the dreams given to us by our forefathers?

How many times have you rolled your eyes when an earnest founder claims their business goal is to 'democratize' this or that industry?

An earnest patriot, he claimed that Swedish was man's original language.

The exhibition's name invokes the Eastern exoticism of Scheherazade, but the show is in earnest about its claims.

Through all his changes, he has remained a Balzacian social chronicler and an earnest patriot, looking to claim the heart of his country.