Sentence examples for former claim from inspiring English sources

"I don't think there's support for the commonwealth as it is and there's no support in the United States Congress for statehood either," said Edwin Cortes, 44, a former claim adjuster who was arrested in 1983.

After 1994, as the elected governor of Taiwan province -- the title was a relic of the Nationalists' former claim to be the government of all of China -- Mr. Soong skillfully nurtured an image as caring for the common people.

Contemporary commentators and modern historians alike have condemned the system; the former claim it encouraged the poor in idleness, while the latter stress the opportunity it gave unscrupulous employers and landlords to reduce wages and raise rents respectively, knowing their depredations would be redressed from the public pocket.

Slim Shady, the alter-ego supposedly killed off at the conclusion of Encore, returns to dominate another albumful of homicidal fantasies and allegations of sexual abuse and parental drug addiction - although the former claim in "Insane" may be just a legally-dubious extension of the lyrical conceit that the rapper is/was "fucked in the head".

Mercury was banned in Sweden - according to public pronouncements, at least - for environmental reasons; the BDA's former claim that 3% of the population are sensitive to mercury refers to reactions to all mercury in the environment and does not imply that 3% of people will necessarily react badly to amalgam fillings.

Perdue sells its chicken with a label that says both "humanely raised" and "raised cage free". The former claim seems debatable, especially considering how nearly one million of its birds are being raised each year whether within the company's guidelines or not.

Contrast this with his former claims that privacy is "the vector around which Facebook operates".

Private lawyers in Louisiana have filed similar lawsuits based on the testimony of former claims adjusters.

The following year, Lukas brought an overachieving former claiming horse named Charismatic to that same brink of history.

In 1999, Charismatic was a former claiming horse that used a victory in the Lexington Stakes (which will be run Saturday) to vault to a near Triple Crown sweep.

Democratic-leaning 'blue states' and Republican-leaning 'red states' are both complaining -- the former claiming inadequate funding and the latter resentful of what they consider federal mandates.