claim-jumper

Definitions

Examples

• Defenders of the status quo claim the old rules protect consumers.

• How the hell does somebody show up at a David Duke organized event in 2002 and claim ignorance?

• The claim is one of a series of allegations made in a controversial documentary that the BBC has now pulled.

• They were called La Red Avispa (The Wasp Network) and claim to have successfully foiled a number of threats against the island.

• The FBI and the President may claim that the Hermit Kingdom is to blame for the most high-profile network breach in forever.

• The purchasers found that this claim was not well founded, and sought to recover their money.

• I claim that it contains many errors of fact, and the Higher Criticism supports the claim; as we shall see.

• He took mental inventory of his possessions and what he could lay claim to, and he happened to think about his wife's homestead.

• Having thus enrolled himself as one of the Agency Indians, he had a claim on this the Agency doctor.

• Who was he, indeed, that he should claim the right to thwart another's happiness, hinder another's best self-realisation?