Sentence examples for priority claims from inspiring English sources

It was their function to adjudicate the priority claims concerning natural selection as the mechanism for evolution, which had been advanced simultaneously by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.

In fact, UK taxpayers are expected to recoup all of the £4.3bn owed, though the recoveries will come from priority claims against the estate of Landsbanki.

This continues the trend of slicing and dicing the company, giving priority claims to select creditors before the company ever thinks about filing for bankruptcy, and sometimes even when bankruptcy is already looming.

On Monday, LBI, the group managing Landsbanki's estate, said in a statement it had reimbursed all of the "priority" claims, meaning those of the British government and the funds that acquired LBI's debt to the Dutch central bank.

In the early nineteen-hundreds, people in other river states, where settlement was still thin, worried that California was growing so quickly that its farmers and municipal water systems would establish priority claims to virtually all the water in the river — even though the Colorado doesn't actually flow through California but forms its border with Arizona.

In the early nineteen-hundreds, people in other river states, where settlement was still thin, worried that California was growing so quickly that its farmers and municipal water systems would establish priority claims to virtually all the water in the river even though the Colorado doesn't actually flow through California but forms its border with Arizona.

One firm, in attempting to prove their priority claim, sent us two swatches and and a letter from Mrs. Roosevelt.

When Kelly heard of Bessemer's patents, he filed a priority claim and in 1857 received a U.S. patent superseding Bessemer's patents.

First, it means nothing in isolation a company might have a lot of cash but if it also has a lot of debt, the company's bondholders have the priority claim on the greenbacks.

Still, if this priority claim and the features shared by all Dasein really are supposed to be ahistorical, universal conditions (applicable everywhere throughout history), we are seemingly owed an account of just how such conditions are even possible, given Dasein's essential historicality.

It has a legal priority claim on government revenue and must eventually be paid.