Sentence examples for pressing claim from inspiring English sources

In the latter case, the dire nature of the refugee's circumstances are thought to give her a pressing claim which trumps whatever presumptive right a state generally has to reject hopeful immigrants.

Though Watterson's suit highlights the privacy concerns raised by employer health screenings, her more pressing claim in the suit is that CVS should compensate her for the cost of the health screening as well as the gas she used to travel to the doctor and the free time she spent getting tested.

Redefine Sacrifice: Sacrifice is defined as "the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim".

Five of the 12 Federal Home Loan Banks, industry-owned co-operatives that lend to mortgage banks, are also pressing claims against the big securitisers.

Addressing the problem through subsidies for the working poor is harder in an era of austerity, when there are many other pressing claims on national coffers.

They will approach that occasion more encouraged, and with some of those previously on the fringes of the squad pressing claims for a starting place against Manchester United.

In its own courts and in lawsuits abroad, Japan is increasingly under siege -- in many cases by aged victims pressing claims for damages.

While pressing claims that he, already, knew how to be presidential, Mr Trump conceded the race for the Republican nomination was far from over after emerging victorious in South Carolina.

He said that the fund would not preclude individuals or states from pressing claims in court, and that it would remain separate from BP's liability for the damages to the environment.

Two years ago a court slapped down Birmingham City Council for refusing support to an undocumented mother and child "by reference to the even more pressing claims of others on the budget".

Now, with Washington reportedly looking for ways to reduce its financial commitments here, Marshallese are pressing new claims, ranging from a suit against the American tobacco industry to pressing claims that past damage awards did not take into account loss of land use.