Sentence examples for sustained claim from inspiring English sources

Among the many European leaders felled by the Continent's debt crisis, Berlusconi will perhaps have the most sustained claim on the spotlight, because of his wealth, extensive media holdings, continuing criminal trials and sheer flamboyant Berlusconi-ness.

And he, too, has a strong, sustained claim to the spotlight.

With few exceptions, contemporary scholarship sustains claims of Frank's innocence.

"Some asylum denials can be attributed, in part, to narrow legal standards and the difficulty of sustaining claims based on the extortion, kidnapping, and homicides by criminal organizations.

Ideal theses invite opposing arguments which you will address later e.g. While it seems that SunChips bags are a perfect marketing tool because they are compostable, in fact research has not yet sustained this claim.

The core of the model lies in two key assumptions, namely the second law –to be discussed in A2 below– and the long-term planning of a couple's relationship –plausibly sustained by claim #2 above.

(The reliability of the confession of Mohammed, who after sustained abuse claimed a role in more than thirty criminal plots, has been widely questioned).

Wang Enmao dutifully did his bit to sustain that claim to his last gasp.

Therefore, the Justice Department failed to "prove fraudulent intent at the time of contract execution; evidence of a subsequent, willful breach cannot sustain the claim".

How would each sustain his claim that his was the "best band in the world" when confronted with a similar boast from a few feet away?

She alleged in 1832 that she had been raped by O'Connell, although Geoghegan says there is no evidence to sustain that claim.