Sentence examples for maintaining a claim from inspiring English sources

But maintaining a claim without trying to enforce it is common practice, like the Queen of England calling herself Defender of the Faith.

It has been a way for women to enter the public sphere and work outside the home in greater numbers than ever before while maintaining a claim on conservative ideals of chastity and piety.

The sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago had long been a point of disagreement between Britain, which administered the territory, and Mauritius, which maintained a claim to it.

Spain has maintained a claim to it, but residents voted in 1967 to remain British and rejected sharing sovereignty with Spain in 2002.

The only way New Yorkers can possibly survive not being at the absolute epicenter of the universe for a week is to maintain a claim on the homies who are there.

Education Ministry documents say that Argentina inherited the islands when it won independence from Spain in 1816, while Falklanders say Britain has maintained a claim on the islands since the English sea captain John Davis charted them in 1592.

To maintain a claim, the owner must work 1,500 man-hours per five years and pay an annual fee of 6,000 Norwegian krone.

The Byzantine emperors maintained a claim over the territory, but none of the new kings in the west dared to elevate himself to the position of emperor of the west, Byzantine control of most of the Western Empire could not be sustained; the reconquest of the Italian peninsula and Mediterranean periphery by Justinian (r. 527 565) was the sole, and temporary, exception.

The TAC maintains a claims management database that contains case-level data for every claim received by the organisation since its inception in 1987.

Iraq, whose port Umm Qaṣr is located nearby on the Al-Zubayr Channel, has maintained a longstanding claim to Būbiyān.

As is often the case with industrial museums, the Automobile Museum is also an effort to maintain a diminishing claim to a shrinking industry.