Sentence examples for has claimed over from inspiring English sources

He has claimed over the years to be a direct descendant of Vlad the Impaler.

The escalation of violence between January and February alone has claimed over 650 lives.

Turkey has supported the rebels fighting against Assad's regime forces in what has become a civil war which has claimed over 60,000 lives, according to the UN.

The above-inflation pay increases that Cosatu has claimed over the past five years have swelled government expenditure and crowded out spending on worthier causes.

The allegation comes amid an upsurge in violence that has claimed over 120 lives in the country.The UN envoy to Afghanistan warned that the Taliban still posed a threat to the country's security.

The United States says the Kurdish group, sometimes called the P.K.K., has engaged in widespread terrorist activities, including bombings and kidnappings, and "has waged a violent insurgency that has claimed over 22,000 lives".

Within an hour, the DeGeneres tweet had claimed over a million retweets.

But his opponents have claimed over the last few years that he has secretly accumulated over $40bn while in office and is therefore actually Russia's richest man.

The Russian government has blamed terrorists from the country's Muslim south for a series of bomb blasts in Moscow and other cities which have claimed over 300 lives.

This is hardly insightful: it does not help explain why a war estimated to have claimed over 5m lives drags on in Congo.Yet "Stringer" is still worth reading.

Apart from looming economic disaster, lack of any real reform and recurrent bloody clashes with protesters that have claimed over 100 lives in recent months, the generals are increasingly perceived as unable to provide stability and security.