Sentence examples for practice of claiming from inspiring English sources

A spokesman for Abbott defended the practice of claiming travel expenses for participating in the charity event, referring to Abbott's comments in 2013.

"It was a form of what we used to refer to as 'sewer service.' " (The term refers to the fraudulent practice of claiming to have served legal papers on someone while actually tossing them in the sewer or trash).

"The regulation is killing this industry and the job losses are already being felt". The regulation also bans the practice of claiming a product will result in a quantifiable weight loss, so out will go the promise of losing so many pounds in a week, as will "claims referring to recommendations of individual doctors".

The Juaneño disagree, arguing that their boundary stretches north to the northern drainage divide of the Aliso Creek watershed, which supports the practice of claiming both sides of a stream.

Instead, he's something of a spiritual leader amongst Indonesian terrorists, a man who advocates takfiri the controversial practice of claiming that Muslims who don't share their radical views aren't actual Muslims.

Donald Trump's practice of claiming the Bible by merely waving it might fit in the latter category, or might merit a new category all its own: the Bible as a prop.

But the judge said prosecutors had proved that Mr. Marquette made a regular practice of falsely claiming to have performed inspections "when, in fact, he was nowhere near there".

And this elaborate system of discriminatory laws, policies, and practices diminishes Palestinian hopes of claiming Jerusalem as the capital of their future state by the day.

HONG KONG — Wang Lin, an exponent of the ancient Chinese practice of qigong, claims he has used his powers to cure cancer and has performed other mysterious feats, like conjuring snakes out of thin air.

We found no significant variation across general practices in Scotland in rates of claiming incapacity benefit once we controlled for differences in population characteristics.

There are also mutterings that farmers have got up to all sorts of fast practice to claim more compensation money than they are entitled to.Farmers are outraged, not just that the government released details of the amounts of money being paid to individuals, but also at the thrust of the complaints.