Sentence examples for persistent claim from inspiring English sources

Spain's persistent claim to the territory, which it ceded to British sovereignty under a 1713 treaty, has been a thorn in the side of otherwise warm relations.

In the matter of Prof. Jan T. Gross, it would be commendable for this "moral provocateur" to correct his persistent claim that 1600 (one thousand six hundred) persons were massacred in Jedwabne.

The cross-party group of MPs refutes the health secretary's persistent claim the government will have given the NHS in England an extra £8.4bn by 2020-21 compared with 2015-16.

But let's not forget the persistent claim that Saddam was allied with Al Qaeda, which allowed the hawks to pretend that the Iraq war had something to do with fighting terrorism.

I'm well aware of the persistent claim on the part of many experts that incarceration has led, at least in part, perhaps by as much as a quarter, to a reduction in crime.

Inman says that repeatedly asking the same question in the hope of getting a different answer is "wearing a bit thin", as is politicians' persistent claim that people want to buy their own home.

But there are persistent claims that it remains commonplace.

Many of his scoops, however, have been criticised as ethically questionable, engendering persistent claims of entrapment.

They are still relatively high in Finland, but have significantly decreased, despite persistent claims to the contrary.

After persistent claims of corruption and mismanagement, the ethics committee removed Blatter from his post in 2015.

But officials had to cover their backs because of persistent claims of UFO sightings and questions from the public.