statement of claim
claim
verb[ T ]
uk /kleɪm/us
to state that something is true, although you may not be able to prove it:
Union representatives claim that workers were forced to work overtime without pay.
INSURANCE
to officially request that an insurance company pay for costs relating to an accident, damage to property, etc.
to request payment for money you are owed by a government department or company:
claim benefits/tax relief/income supportThe self employed may claim income tax relief as an allowance in their income tax assessment.
LAW
to state that you have a legal right to own something such as a property, business, or title:
If there are no relatives to claim the estate, the deceased's property will be reverted to the state.
 claim damages
LAW
to officially request payment from someone who is responsible for an injury, loss, etc.:
A breach of warranty will give the purchaser the right to claim damages from the vendor.

Examples of claim

claim
For her project to succeed fully, she would need to be able to vindicate both her historical and philosophical claims.
Many students in my class were inspired by these readings to carry on further investigations, finding more data and phonetic support for the phonological claims.
The central claim of this paper is that decision-making cannot be understood purely at the group level.
The cold fusion claims of 1989, in contrast, attracted criticism that spilled over from the purely theoretic domain to the professional one.
The authors claim to be modeling semantic representations in the domain of living things.
In this way, the central claim of their paper - "all mental representations are conscious" - ceases to be vacuous.
There is no theoretical reason for claiming that representations and computation need to be conscious.
We take this as support for our claim that the traditional responseto-stimulus-mapping view should be replaced by an eventrepresentation view.
Their claim that higher levels of unemployment help extreme right parties is valid given their model.
The potential for such liability claims will provide private parties with an added incentive to bring cases.
In both of these situations, social subjects enact authentication by historicizing their identities through claims of linguistic continuity with a valued past.
All that remains is the claim that (a) the resurrection body is the same person as the earthly body.
The claim may be true without the people's good judgment surfacing in their actual choices.
This largely determined the maximum of ten hectares (arable equivalent) and ensured that only symbolic holdings would be given to farm workers lacking ownership claims.
Because they cannot claim real property on their findings, they may attach their names to them as a gesture of symbolic ownership for their work.
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Collocations withclaim

claim

These are words often used in combination with claim.

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bold claim
They stake a boldclaim for a single perceptual system that utilizes global arrays of energy.
competing claim
They can make a formal challenge to the application only if they can show that they have a competingclaim.
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