Sentence examples for maintained its claim from inspiring English sources

No: when the Kingdom of Naples lost the island, it maintained its claim to be the Kingdom of Sicily.

It has the territory it really wants and has maintained its claim to Arunachal Pradesh only as a bargaining chip.

Al-Shabaab maintained its claim of responsibility after the speech.

Ruthenians tried to establish a provisional government in Transcarpathia; Donetsk province expressed a desire to join the Russian Federation; and Romania maintained its claim to parts of Bessarabia and the Chernovtsy (Romanian: Cernauti) region.

Those states soon ceded their territorial holdings to the central government (with the exception of Connecticut, which maintained its claim to the Western Reserve along the southern shore of Lake Erie in what is northeastern Ohio), and, by the time the American Revolution ended in 1783, specific measures were needed to guide the settlement and division of the Northwest Territory.

In 1387 Peter I Muşat recognized Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland as his suzerain, but Hungary also maintained its claim of suzerainty over the principality.

Argentina still, sadly, maintains its claim to the islands 30 or more years after the original invasion and the war and we have to respond to that".

China maintains its claim on Macau through a concept known as "one country, two systems," a bifurcation that, in "The Last Time I Saw Macao," is embodied by Candy (as a transsexual but also as a Jane Russell impersonator) and echoed by other doublings, like that of the tag-team voice-over and fact-fiction form.

Britain reasserted its rule in 1833, although Argentina maintains its claim to the islands.

The Church maintains its claim of political neutrality, but the Tabernacle's decision to perform can hardly be considered apolitical when it's already caused the resignation of one choir member, Jan Chamberlin, who compared Trump to Hitler.

Each state maintains its claims, but is committed to not exercising them.