I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bold statement/assertion/claim
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In a surprisingly bold statement, the couple said they had no intention of marrying.
a compensation claim
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He was seeking legal advice on a compensation claim.
a liability claim (= a claim that someone is legally responsible )
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A liability claim was made by a consumer injured by the product.
a pay claim British English (= official request for more pay )
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The miners voted for strike action in support of their pay claim.
an insurance claim
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She filed an insurance claim for the missing jewellery.
claim a reward
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He contacted the police, hoping to claim the reward money offered by the bank.
claim compensation (= ask for it because you have a right to it )
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You can claim compensation for unfair dismissal from your job.
claim custody formal (= say that you want to have it )
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Henry has claimed custody of his son.
claim expenses (= officially ask your employer to pay you back money that you have spent while doing your job )
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If you have to stay overnight, you will be able to claim any expenses back.
claim responsibility (for sth) (= say that you are responsible for something bad )
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No group has yet claimed responsibility for the bombings.
claim sth on your insurance (= get an insurance company to pay for something )
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He claimed the money back on his travel insurance.
claim the life of sb (= kill someone – used of a thing )
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The disease claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population.
claimed descent
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The emperor claimed descent from David.
claiming dole
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The number claiming dole went up by 3,500.
deny a claim
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Claims that money had been wasted were denied by the chairman of the committee.
dismiss a claim
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An industrial tribunal dismissed his claim of unfair discrimination.
fraudulent...claim
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a fraudulent insurance claim
pressing...claim
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I was pressing my claim for custody of the child.
process an application/claim/transaction etc
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All university applications are processed through this system.
refute a hypothesis/a claim/an idea etc
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an attempt to refute Darwin’s theories
sb’s/sth’s claim to fame (= reason for being famous )
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One of his main claims to fame is having invented the electric light bulb.
small claims court
submit an application/claim/proposal etc
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All applications must be submitted by Monday.
substantiate...claims
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Katzen offered little evidence to substantiate his claims .
unfounded rumours/claims/allegations etc
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Unfounded rumours began circulating that Ian and Susan were having an affair.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
benefit
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If they are very ill they can claim other benefits , such as attendance allowance.
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As officially married couples, gay men and lesbians will be able to claim pension benefits if a partner dies.
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That is of course a child for the purpose of claiming a benefit .
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If you are claiming supplementary benefit , you automatically qualify.
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Anyone having to pay the full personal Community Charge can claim community charge benefit .
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Conservatives seek to obstruct people who wish to claim backdated benefits .
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They would be able to claim benefit in their own right and for their husbands as their dependants.
company
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The company claims the test is 97 per cent effective.
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The company claims that it will be the first program to integrate E-Mail, scheduling and calendar functions into one package.
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Then he fought with the title company claiming irregularities in his deed and those of his neighbors.
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Both companies claimed that sales had not been as high as they'd hoped.
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The company claims that these protocols can be loaded and accessed simultaneously without interrupting the LANtastic network connection.
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Some 60 companies there claim competence and expertise in the technology, each trying to identify its own market niche.
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The company had claimed that Mrs Ashgrove was replaced because of serious errors in her work.
credit
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We could not claim all the credit for this as our administration was coming to grips with the situation ashore.
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Predictably, the arch-conservative reformers claimed great moral credit for such legislation.
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But, fearing that others would claim the credit for the discovery, they went into print.
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Any minute now President Clinton will try to claim credit .
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Though often misused, it can result in benefits to some sections of the community for which the cadres claim credit .
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In addition, she allegedly claimed an earned income credit of $ 323 on the basis of his fictional dependent.
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There have even been proposals to clear natural forests and replace them with dense plantations of fast-growing trees to claim extra credits .
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Steve Merrill, claim credit for it.
government
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The Government regularly claim that they want value for money.
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On June 8, however, the government claimed to have regained control of the airport complex.
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Successes of the government would always be claimed by all its members, but failures would be left to the Prime Minister.
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It is they who have appointed a new caretaker president and a Government which they claim are interim measures.
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He arrived at his supreme court office despite government claims that he had already been replaced by a Mugabe supporter.
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For a Government that claims to have offered choice for the last 13 years, their stance on this issue is odd.
group
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No group claimed responsibility for the explosions.
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An avowed contrarian, Carr, like Groucho Marx, seems to be suspicious of any group that would claim him.
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Several groups claim to exert their influence, but insist that it is no more than that.
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A Kashmiri separatist group claimed responsibility for the blast.
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The hostile bid has infuriated board members of the Dowty group , who claim that their company is being underpriced.
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Sightings of space aliens persist, with several organized groups claiming to have seen them, or even to have been abducted.
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No warnings were received, and no groups have claimed responsibility.
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Authorities said no group has claimed responsibility.
life
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Smoking claims thousands of lives every year and treatment for the effects of the habit costs the taxpayer millions of pounds annually.
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Cancer claimed the lives of her parents and hit 14 of 17 people in her immediate family.
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Its independence campaign has claimed nearly 800 lives since 1968.
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In 1949, a quake centered near Olympia claimed eight lives .
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Already the inferno has claimed two lives and gutted several homes.
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One of those bombings claimed the life of Sacramento timber executive Gilbert Murray.
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The combined force of the UVF/UFF has claimed six lives in Belfast compared to 11 last year.
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Jack and Rita began to search for a business of their own that could help them claim a life of their own.
report
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Some of the more sensational reports claimed that Misrati had used his attractive young daughter to gain access to information.
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But in a second report he claimed to have spied Cibola, though from a distance, of course.
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His resignation comes after a report claimed it was cumbersome and spent too much on administration.
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Another report claims Stevens broke his hand trying to hit him back.
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The report claimed that the railways would then make a small profit.
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Critics of the group's report will claim the differences between landowners and conservationists were irreconcilable from the start.
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Unofficial reports claimed that up to eight people were killed.
support
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Retirement benefits are not enough to live on, so nearly 2 million pensioners have to claim income support .
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Hamas claims the support of about 15 percent of the population.
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The organisation claims the support of prominent industrialists and of former members of the security forces.
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He is fighting for a second term and claims the support of other key nations in defiance of the Clinton administration.
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This will mean that a person working 16 hours a week or more will not be able to claim income support .
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The mugged man even had to ask them to call the police, claimed the Victim Support group.
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If the man does not leap in, the Adlerian can again claim support for his theory.
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If Mr Ali makes it here, his family could claim support worth £1,300 a month.
victory
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The women are claiming a victory .
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And the Lakers, 4-1 since he joined them, have claimed victories in 11 of 13 to reach 28-19 overall.
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This one ended with both sides claiming victory .
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Where it had claimed a victory , the same crew of specialists dissected the results and fed them into the machinery.
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Singh claimed victory over Harrington at the third extra.
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Hamas leaders had said in recent interviews that they would claim victory if turnout was lower than 50 percent.
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It may yet be that he still claims victory .
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Not second, where he could claim a victory in the cockeyed estimations of winners and losers in presidential primary politics.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
no-claims bonus
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Shouldn't we, therefore, be entitled to a no-claims bonus ?
prior claim
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Ace had a prior claim on the Doctor's affections.
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Bondholders, on the other hand, have a prior claim on the firm.
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You have a prior claim on him.
take/claim/seize the moral high ground
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Some corporations have seized the moral high ground.
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Television is therefore seen to be taking the moral high ground, the side of the punter against the forces of evil.
wage claim
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In the summer of 1953 the union carried out strikes and go-slows in support of a wage claim, but were locked out.
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Many, therefore, blamed Callaghan for the explosion in union wage claims that followed in the early seventies.
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Meanwhile, trade unions became more active in their wage claims, and a vicious price-wage-price spiral developed.
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Mr Scargill urged the miners to prepare for battle: they must stand firm over their wage claim.
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The union will engage in negotiations with the employers in an attempt to persuade them that the wage claim is justified.
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There was also concern that a renewed upturn in inflation could inflame wage claims in the forthcoming pay round.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Because the accident had not been her fault, Barbara was able to claim damages.
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Congress intends to make welfare harder to claim .
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Doctors claim to have discovered a cure for the disease.
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Kashmir is claimed by both India and Pakistan.
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Lost items can be claimed between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
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Martin claimed that he was with friends at the time of his wife's murder.
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No one has yet claimed responsibility for planting the bomb.
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She claimed she was fired from her job for being pregnant.
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She claims to be a descendent of Charles Dickens.
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The 12-year-old civil war had claimed 1.5 million lives.
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The two companies are claiming $500 million each in damages from the government.
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Thousands of people who should get welfare payments never even bother to claim them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years!
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Euro Disney claims that one of its tour operators has sold 70 percent of its first three months of Euro Disney allocations.
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He claimed he was inside for not paying his poll tax.
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He carried a heavy lad one day, claiming to be weighted by the problems of the world.
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Not even the most unreconstructed Keynesian would ever claim that the General Theory was an easy read.
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She claimed to be doing it only for Jeeta, but there was real, wilful contrariness in it, I suspected.
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The prosecution had claimed that the furniture factory boss resolved to kill his second wife Helen when she walked out on him.
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Yardley was proud that he was one of the few bowlers who could claim to have dismissed Bradman three times in Tests.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
extravagant
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To these ends, the most extravagant claims were made.
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The extravagant claims made were more significant for what they anticipated than for what could then be accomplished.
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The Secretary of State made more extravagant claims for the Bill than its content would justify.
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Naturally there is a lot of grandstanding and extravagant claims .
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But all these rather extravagant claims have had to be made via the old-fashioned printed page.
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Postwar politics made extravagant claims for its own power, and unsurprisingly failed to deliver.
false
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Many asked for more clearly presented and detailed information with less false claims .
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This was long before Eastern Airlines fired him for moral turpitude and for making false claims about a medical background.
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He had also threatened to make false claims of homosexual advances.
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Insurance companies started hiring him to find stolen goods and investigate false claims .
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Why does not the Prime Minister address those issues of life and death instead of parading false claims about his Government?
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Editors also object to overblown or false claims .
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Clients often make false claims of cold-calling; sometimes so they might avoid paying for the shares they bought.
small
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This is described as the de minimis and serves as confirmation that the vendor will not be troubled by small claims .
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Few lawsuits concerning teachers, however, will qualify for small claims court.
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The County Court is particularly useful in that it operates a small claims procedure.
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The best you could expect under your statutory rights would be a small compensation claim .
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It was certainly used as an argument in support of the establishment of special courts with simplified procedure to deal with small claims .
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And they took their case to the small claims court.
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As a last resort they can take late-payers to the small claims court.
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The Civil Justice Review recommended that the small claims limit be increased to £1,000.
■ NOUN
bonus
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With two exceptions all have obtained no claim bonus rebates.
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A much smaller increase in premium where you loose your no claims bonus following an accident than with most other insurers.
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If this is the only payment we make, it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus.
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Although you can protect your 60% no claim bonus your premium may increase if you make claims or you receive motoring convictions.
compensation
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But a judge dismissed her compensation claim .
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I can't file a worker's compensation claim for him as he doesn't have landed-immigrant status yet.
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After retiring from the Chiefs in 1995, he filed a workers' compensation claim for injuries dating back to 1979.
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The best you could expect under your statutory rights would be a small compensation claim .
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Dear Help Wanted: I may be receiving a lump sum of money to settle a workers' compensation claim .
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Voice over Ray's now waiting for the outcome of his compensation claim .
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Absenteeism and workers' compensation claims have fallen sharply.
form
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Although social workers may supply patients with a claim form for state benefits, they rarely assist or follow through the claims.
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In fact, some people would not sign the claim form , which contained a general release of Harvester.
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Otherwise you should contact your local council and ask for a claim form for community charge benefit.
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Claims should be made by completing the claim form at the back of leaflet NI205.
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An application for the allowance should be made on the mortgage allowance claim form .
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During the winter months, look out for announcements on Cold Weather Payments and a claim form in your local paper.
insurance
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They recommended a glazier, a brush and an insurance claim .
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It also frees the company from any substantial future insurance claims .
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Guppy and Marsh, having lodged their bogus insurance claim , flew back to New York on Concorde.
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Managers of unclaimed property often have experience in insurance claims analysis and records management.
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Measures being taken include increasing the amount a property owner must pay towards an insurance claim .
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The package will cover areas not covered by insurance claims and will be directed mainly at the fish farming industry.
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Unemployment insurance claims have been rising rapidly.
■ VERB
back
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And there are 150 members of the Royal Commonwealth Pool's own judo club to back up that claim .
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No evidence was offered to back up the claim .
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And, even relations such as these may not be enough to back up counterfactual claims like the one Poulantzas offers.
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Any prophet could say that, but the Mormons had guns to back their claims on the Promised Land.
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None of these writers produced research evidence to back up their claims , basing them exclusively on clinical practice and theoretical projections.
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But Weisberg said there was insufficient evidence to back that claim in the Menendez case.
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It will be hard for him to back up those claims now that they have been contemptuously dismissed by Dintilhac.
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All that is material to this case is what substantial evidence Frank has to back up his claim about Militant infiltration.
based
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Gundovald's bid for the throne was based on his claim to Merovingian blood.
bring
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Either Alice or Bert could bring such a claim if they suffered damage.
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They are also denied the statutory right to bring their dependants or claim supplementary benefits.
deny
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Le Carre repeatedly denied the claim .
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Gerald Kingsland, now in New Zealand, denies the claims .
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The couple - a man and a woman - deny the claim .
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In this way beliefs and values are denied their claim to be real knowledge.
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Those who persevere are nearly always told that the teacher has denied their claims .
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He denies the claim from opponents that foxhunting is a barbaric sport.
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The Navy has denied his claims .
dismiss
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But a judge dismissed her compensation claim .
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She said it would be premature to dismiss the racketeering claim or rule out damages.
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But it could also be used to dismiss the claims , even of empiricists, that they knew how nature works.
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He dismissed as unreasonable her claim that she should have enough to buy her own farm.
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We can not dismiss claims about, say, alternative medicine or acupuncture a priori.
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Is that a reason to dismiss them or their claims ?
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At first instance the trial judge dismissed the claim .
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Nolan J. dismissed the claim but the Court of Appeal, by a majority, reversed his decision.
dispute
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Lothian and Borders Police admitted liability but disputed her claim for £75,000 damages.
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But department administrators dispute those claims , saying the system is on its way to becoming the finest in the nation.
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To dispute the priority claims of others.
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Vaca disputes that claim but acknowledges that despondency over years of abuse had affected his ministry.
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Architects and surveyors will have to be called to give evidence in support of, or to dispute , such claims .
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The California Department of Insurance has 372 disputed claims on its books.
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He disputed the claim that the funding in any way promoted Inkatha.
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The husband disputes the claim , on the ground that there was no consideration for his promise.
file
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No fee is payable on filing a claim .
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Before her death in June 1985, Gentile filed a claim against the town alleging the ticketing was harassment.
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Critics say professional athletes have been abusing the generous California system by filing claims from out of state.
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The tenant filed a claim against the landlord to recover his losses.
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In 1990, 17 employees filed claims with the watchdog agency.
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There is no comparable question for the death of Nicole Simpson because the Brown family chose not to file a wrongful-death claim .
lay
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Fairfax tells me that he is a suitor, eager to lay claim to a girl who is now only eleven.
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These difficulties are due to the conflicts that arise between both institutions that lay claim to democratic legitimacy.
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With his victory in Florida officially certified, Bush announced new moves to lay claim to the White House.
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This was the Viking, and he had laid claim to all that was truly his.
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Yet who else can lay claim to winning four gold medals at four successive Olympic Games?
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Only the very reckless or very good at fighting would lay a claim to be Top Cat himself.
make
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We can not pay if farmers do not make the claims .
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J &038; J never said it had made illegal marketing claims .
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I could make large mystical claims for democracy.
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It would be absurd to make high claims for the international morality of the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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How are individuals to know which ones are legitimate and which ones are shams making fake claims ?
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When women do try to make such claims , this sets up predictable antagonisms between brothers and sisters.
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The football team is making a claim on her.
press
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Contact your tax office and press your claim .
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It has no pressing economic claim on my conscience.
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New bodies emerged to represent and press the claims of the more assertive national minorities.
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With Jamie Pollock suspended for one match, Proctor could press his claims for a recall to the squad.
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Almost certainly some suitors must have continued to press their claims through courtiers and household servants.
pursue
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The Court of Appeal concluded that he ordinarily worked outside Great Britain and was therefore unable to pursue an unfair dismissal claim .
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These include pursuing a claim for policy excess, car hire charges and loss of the use of one's vehicle.
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Where that does not resolve any difficulty, the client may pursue his claims with the Solicitors' Complaints Bureau.
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Overall, it may be difficult to discover whether there is enough evidence to pursue a claim .
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We will pursue a claim against those responsible for your accident.
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It seems we may be able to pursue a negligence claim in respect of the fire.
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However, it also has its own panel to whom it recommends people wishing to pursue a medical negligence claim .
reject
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Lord Cullen rejected the Timex claim , however.
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The Court only examined and rejected a claim based on religious beliefs of immunity from an unquestioned general rule.
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Once again, in their view, the world would have rejected their country's claim to international respect.
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The rejected claims could be resubmitted for further review by the carrier.
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FitzGerald flatly rejects this claim , but on this point her argument strikes me as thin.
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Gandhi rejects outright claims made concerning the superior or inferior status of religions.
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The Appeal Court also rejected the prosecution's claim that the mutineers had tried to mount a coupd'etat.
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But equally it rejects the Soviet claim that the revolutionaries were spokesmen for the masses.
settle
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In 1998 the federal government settled 220 claims involving priests and nuns who had been convicted of criminal abuse.
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It had set aside $ 24 million to settle claims by former managers that it had failed to pay required overtime.
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If the courts were to try to settle each claim on a case-by-case basis, it could take for ever.
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He approached the conference sponsors with a proposition: He would settle his claim without a suit for twenty-six thousand dollars.
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In all, London Underground has settled 60 out of 80 claims arising out of the disaster, to the tune of £2m.
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But they face the sale of most of the rest of their property in order to settle creditors' claims .
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Strenuous efforts were made last weekend to settle the outstanding claim of the town of Seveso itself.
stake
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Oxford blew their chance to stake a claim in the promotion race.
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In the last six months, two fledgling dirt-shirt companies have staked claims to this earthy enterprise.
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Those undertaking the drainage were quick to stake their claim to the best bits of land.
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Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory.
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Shastri died in 1966, and Indira Gandhi staked her claim .
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Other fish may have already staked their claim to other hiding places in your aquarium.
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It is another chance for Beagrie to stake a claim in his helter - skelter Goodison career.
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And Dad and Mum staked the claim so they have Galactic rights.
substantiate
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To substantiate claims of priority, etc. 8.
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He asked Wong to require the organization to substantiate its claim .
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Thus, a certain historical myopia is required to substantiate territorial claims .
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But these are no greater than are required to substantiate a claim to professional status.
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Though the standard of evidence we demand to substantiate extraordinary claims is high, it is not impossibly high.
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Three main reasons can be put forward to substantiate this claim .
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Regarding recruitment of staff, there is little factual evidence available to substantiate the claim either way.
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Bell, however, offers no direct evidence to substantiate the claim that there has been a shift in demand to services.
support
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But we must not support the innateness claim with the wrong arguments.
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This will help you support your claims , create continuity within the document, and use interesting language and ideas.
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It was supported in this claim by the Trustee of Lord Northampton's Settlement, who is co-defendant.
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A letter from Fremont to Senator Benton supports this claim .
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Or are public subsidies being given to support unspecified claims about cultural maintenance, diversity, and development?
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There is no evidence to support this claim .
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Some patterns in the survey evidence seem to support this claim .
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Cameron did not satisfy the state law requirements to support a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bring charges/a lawsuit/a court case/a prosecution/a claim (against sb)
lay claim to (doing) sth
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Dole himself did not expect to lay claim to the title of presumptive nominee until after the March 26 primary in California.
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I'd guess it also can lay claim to the oldest leader of a still-functioning organisation today.
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Initially these had been one hundred and seventy-five men and twenty-five horses laying claim to an empire of fourteen million.
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They seem to lay claim to being purely of the mind's eye, a manifestation of pure objectivity.
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This latter idea could lay claim to a basis in ideas of collegiality - but only of a limited nature.
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With his victory in Florida officially certified, Bush announced new moves to lay claim to the White House.
no-claims bonus
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Shouldn't we, therefore, be entitled to a no-claims bonus ?
prior claim
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Ace had a prior claim on the Doctor's affections.
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Bondholders, on the other hand, have a prior claim on the firm.
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You have a prior claim on him.
stake (out) a claim
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Both countries have staked a claim to the islands.
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Griffey has already staked a claim to this year's Most Valuable Player award.
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He may have staked a claim for a regular place, particularly if Steven Gerrard is not fit.
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In the last six months, two fledgling dirt-shirt companies have staked claims to this earthy enterprise.
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It is another chance for Beagrie to stake a claim in his helter - skelter Goodison career.
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It was in her desperate kisses, the way she clutched at him, her hands roving possessively, staking out claims.
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Others will have already staked a claim with tripods and telescopes.
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Oxford blew their chance to stake a claim in the promotion race.
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We staked claim to the two-man tents set on a steep slope in the rain forest.
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Weedy horrors Weeds are opportunists, quick to stake a claim for any vacant patch of ground they find.
take/claim/seize the moral high ground
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Some corporations have seized the moral high ground.
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Television is therefore seen to be taking the moral high ground, the side of the punter against the forces of evil.
wage claim
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In the summer of 1953 the union carried out strikes and go-slows in support of a wage claim, but were locked out.
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Many, therefore, blamed Callaghan for the explosion in union wage claims that followed in the early seventies.
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Meanwhile, trade unions became more active in their wage claims, and a vicious price-wage-price spiral developed.
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Mr Scargill urged the miners to prepare for battle: they must stand firm over their wage claim.
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The union will engage in negotiations with the employers in an attempt to persuade them that the wage claim is justified.
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There was also concern that a renewed upturn in inflation could inflame wage claims in the forthcoming pay round.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After the fire we made a claim to our insurance company.
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Don't believe all of the health claims that are printed on food labels.
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His claim to the house was finally recognized by the court.
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No one can dispute the Mohawks' claim to this land.
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The local people's claims for compensation from the chemical factory have so far been ignored.
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They've paid out $30,000 in worker's compensation claims.
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They have a mining claim on the Salmon River.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ask for this claim to be investigated, and find out whether anyone has been found responsible and brought to justice.
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Have your policy or claim number ready as a reference.
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Maisha and Tiger meet us outside baggage claim , and Maisha is looking terrific as usual.
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One of his more excessive claims was that the abrupt ending of a relationship could be more damaging than bereavement.
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The friar suddenly realised that Cranston's claim that Allingham was murdered was really a piece of pure guesswork on his part.
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There is no proof of these claims.
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There were no tourism survey results available to support claims that very late hours were needed, he added.
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These claims are now examined by considering the position of each sector in turn.