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How to use the word claiming in a Sentence? Page #6

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This is why we determined to take precautionary interim steps while this investigation is still ongoing. ISIL is out there now, active in a lot of different areas, and so while this investigation is pending -- and cause we have this group claiming responsibility -- we believe it's significant to do these things on an interim basis and to tell the public that we've done this, we want the public to know that our aviation security officials are very much focused on this.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Obviously, anyone who can engage in an affair for months and at the same time carry on by still claiming to be 'with firm reliance on divine providence,' there are a lot of people who think she could be capable of anything.

Steve McNeal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Impoverished Greece is in crisis. We are a poor people, but we have retained our values and humanity, and we aren't claiming a single euro to do our duty to people who are dying in our back yard.

Alexis Tsipras

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If Russia is really serious about claiming to contribute to the stabilization of Syria, then that can't succeed if thousands more people are forced to flee by military offensives.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Claiming the name of being a Celtic nation and speaking Celtic languages is very much a statement of difference. It enables.

Julia Farley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Fla Scientists're not claiming that Fla Scientists found... evidence of liquid water. Fla Scientists found hydrated salts.

Lujendra Ojha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Doubling down on a regime that gases its people, that barrel bombs its people, that tortures people who it arrests simply for protesting and for claiming their rights -- that's just not going to work.

Samantha Power

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's been some crazy stuff going around, you're always going to get a fringe element, on both the left and right. There's some guy in Canada claiming to be the Pope.

Greg Erlandson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The accords( Minsk agreements) are full of ambiguities, baited hooks and traps. They give each side multiple pretexts for claiming violation by the other. They do not provide a firm basis for a settlement, he( Poroshenko) knows that if he accepts Russia's terms, the country will not. People have sacrificed too much. They will see it as a betrayal. Ukrainian President President Petro Poroshenko will put Ukrainian President President Petro Poroshenko legitimacy at risk if Ukrainian President President Petro Poroshenko bows to all this pressure, and Ukrainian President President Petro Poroshenko knows it.

James Sherr

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's reasonable to criticize what Actress Sharon Stone is doing as capitulating to the patriarchy because Actress Sharon Stone's making a clear and implicit statement that the way for Actress Sharon Stone to get Actress Sharon Stone career back is to pose nude. But we all bargain with the patriarchy. At least Actress Sharon Stone's being straightforward about how Actress Sharon Stone's claiming to get Actress Sharon Stone career back and I don't think there's anything particularly new or unique or interesting about what doing, if anything, I appreciate Actress Sharon Stone honesty about it.

Lisa Wade

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Where was Secretary of State Clinton in all of this? Like the president himself, she had opposed the surge, then joined in claiming credit for its success, then stood by as that hard-won victory by American and allied forces was thrown away.

Jeb Bush

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Anti-abortion extremists are willing to do anything to stop women from accessing the reproductive health care they are seeking, extremists have broken laws, harassed our doctors and patients, produced hack videos, and now are claiming to have committed a gross invasion of privacy -- one that, if true, could potentially put our staff members at risk.

Dawn Laguens

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We've seen the claims around attempts to access our systems. We take security very seriously and are investigating, it's unsurprising that those opposed to safe and legal abortion are participating in this campaign of harassment against us and our patients, and claiming to stoop to this new low.

Dawn Laguens

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's unsurprising that those opposed to safe and legal abortion are participating in this campaign of harassment against us and our patients, and claiming to stoop to this new low.

Dawn Laguens

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The risk is growing that a miscalculation on the part of either China or any of the other rival claimants could escalate into a situation nobody wants – this is something that is of greatest concern to all sides, including the U.S. and Chinese leadership, the conflict in the South China Sea is nothing new. The Chinese have been claiming more or less the entirety of the South China Sea since as far back as the 1950s.

Timothy Heath

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Governments in the region are playing human ping-pong, pushing boats back out to sea while claiming to crackdown on human trafficking, all governments have a responsibility to protect survivors of trafficking and asylum seekers. No government can credibly claim to be combating trafficking while simultaneously creating a ready pool of desperate and insecure people at sea.

Matthew Smith of Fortify Rights

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You do have some of the Taliban breaking off and claiming allegiance toward ISIS.

John Campbell

Found on CNN
9 years ago

She's really claiming that she can be in the rough and tumble at the highest level, so she can’t break down too easily.

Mark Schickman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

She's really claiming that she can be in the rough and tumble at the highest level, so she can't break down too easily.

Mark Schickman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think the criticism is understandable -- the terrorists themselves are claiming to be doing this in the name of Islam, and the White House is having to walk this very fine line, it basically risks scorn because people are going to take away from this -- some people -- that the White House is bending over too far backwards and not addressing the problem head on.

Bobby Ghosh

Found on CNN
9 years ago

You do have some of the Taliban breaking off and claiming allegiance toward ISIS. Part of that is happening in different parts of Afghanistan, we have seen some of the recruiting. We have seen some night letters. We have seen some talk of it at some of the universities. It is a concern to President Ghani, therefore, a concern to me.

Army Gen. John Campbell

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The Border Patrol operates as a rogue agency, claiming extra-constitutional powers that extend far from any border, and operating with no effective oversight.

Adrienna Wong

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Ever since the Charlie Hebdo attacks ‘avenged’ the prophet, there has been a growing trend to justify terrorist acts, such as this murder, by claiming it was an act of vengeance, just this week in Sinai, Egypt, ISIS released a video titled, ‘We Swear We Will Revenge.’.

Veryan Khan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Given that our editorial guidelines that reference pigs and pork have been in place for as long as I can remember, little did I imagine that they would attract international headlines claiming that Oxford University Press had banned sausages, to clarify, OUP does not have a blanket ban on pork products in its titles, and we do still publish books about pigs.

Jane Harley

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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