Sentence examples for intellectual claims from inspiring English sources

"It brings the country together, and federalism, whatever its intellectual claims, doesn't speak to that".

In interviews, neither Jonze nor Kaufman make any intellectual claims for Being John Malkovich or cite any particular influences.

Because he broke no new artistic ground and staked no intellectual claims, he has only a minor place in American theatre history.

Though in its way it's as simpleminded as the usual romantic young poet's denunciations of war or commerce, it has a vague, floating, lyric sense of dread which goes beyond the simpler effects of horror movies that don't make intellectual claims.

Although he has written extensively about the singularity as a scientific concept, he is humble about laying intellectual claim to it.

All too often, blacks are called upon to substantiate an intellectual claim with a personal one — as if that would make people stop being racist, narrow-minded, or boring, or persuade them to support affirmative action.

The Argentinian, who scored in the 1986 World Cup final and has a respected reputation as a football intellectual, claimed that Mourinho and Benítez mistrust talent because of their own failure to make it as players and said their approach is bad news for the game.

When some of the C.I.A.'s activities were exposed in the late 1960's, many artists and intellectuals claimed ignorance.

Ancient and Renaissance Christian intellectuals claimed all that was beautiful and humane in pre-Christian Greek and Roman pagan literature was really Christian, inasmuch as the truly brilliant and the genuinely civilized must represent the true religion.

Wordscraper is designed to get around any of the intellectual property claims Hasbro has made against Scrabulous, especially the trademark infringement claims.

Oracle would also make binding guarantees to companies and individuals using MySQL that Oracle would not pursue intellectual property claims.