8 sentences with 'claims'
Example sentences and phrases with the word claims and other words derived from it.
• « The American historian Howard Raymond claims that the last evidence burned along with the library of Alexandria, a cultural genocide perpetrated - according to him - by the Romans. »
• « It contained, Raymond claims, books and chronicles later quoted by Ptolemy about the location, geographies and cultures of Atlantis, and spoke of it as the third mother race of mankind. Mu would have been the first and Lemuria the second, all vanished civilisations and holders of great powers, advancements and mysteries. »
• « The Carthaginians sued for peace in 241 BCE and agreed to renounce their claims to Sicily and pay a war indemnity. »
• « Instead, this period was important in the longer history of institutional Christianity because many popes at least claimed authority over doctrine and organisation - centuries later, popes would look back to the claims of their predecessors as 'proof' that the papacy had always been in charge. »
• « Spanish nobles came to despise their own kings and asserted their own sovereignty against the claims of the monarchy. »
• « Louis XIV of France had a branch of the royal government devoted entirely to verifying claims of nobility and stripping noble titles from those who did not have adequate proof. »
• « The Scientific Revolution's claims about female anatomy ultimately created a pseudo-scientific (i.e., empirically false but claiming scientific truth) theory of sexual difference that was actually worse in its view of women's capacity than previous ideas. »