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claim

英 [kleɪm] 美[klem]

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vi. 提出要求
vt. 要求；声称；需要；认领
n. 要求；声称；索赔；断言；值得

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Emailing the neuroscientist and memory researcher Jim McGaugh one day, she claimed that she could recall every day of her life since the age of 12.

The team at Frontpoint addresses the issue in a blog on its site, citing their own jam protection software and claiming that there aren't any documented cases of successful jam attack since the company began offering wireless security sensors in the 1980s.

Or maybe the reward of a half-sized portion could be a half-sized dessert to be claimed only on a future date.

Even if they could, SimpliSafe claims that its system is always evolving, and that it varies slightly from system to system, which means there wouldn't be a universal magic formula for cracking it.

By contrast, a Danish tax on foods high in fats was abandoned a year after its introduction, amid claims that consumers were avoiding it by crossing the border to Germany to satisfy their desire for cheaper, fattier fare.

But perhaps Plutarch is suggesting something slightly different, something a bit closer to Marcus Cicero's claim that one should criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

it is claimed to be unintentional.

But as reliance on the Web grows, there are signs that the question is getting more serious attention: Last month, a study published in CNS Spectrums claimed to be the first large-scale look at excessive Internet use.

They hoped to challenge the claim that he never slept.

Several of the employees in the computer department, for example, claim to be developing vision problems from having to stare at a video display terminal for about 7 hours a day.

A recent study said that 40% of American teens claim to have been in a car when the driver used a cell phone in a way that put people in danger.

But perhaps Plutarch is suggesting something slightly different, something a bit closer to Marcus Cicero's claim that one should "criticize by creation, not by finding fault."

I've had the idea for some time that Jack Green's been busy stirring things up in connection with the latest wage claim.

New York's Attorney General's office launched an investigation in the fall into whether or not Verizon, Cablevision and time Warner are delivering broadband that's as fast as the providers claim it is.

Some scientists claim that people should consume the right kind of food at breakfast.

The results reveal that while Swedes were the tallest people in the world in 1914, Dutch men have risen from 12th place to claim top spot with an average height of 182.5cm.

There have been concerns around the sugar content of cereal and the food industry's involvement in pro-breakfast research—and even one claim from an academic that breakfast is "dangerous".

When your child throws her spoon on the floor for the sixth time as you try to feed her, and you say, "That's enough! I will not pick up your spoon again!" The child will immediately test your claim.

Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

The commission's revised Green Guides warn marketers against using labels that make broad claims, like eco-friendly.

So what you need to know is that there's no evidence whatsoever to back these claims.

So the evidence contradicts the claim that we're mainly suffering from structural unemployment.

Marketers must qualify their claims on the product packaging and limit them to a specific benefit, such as how much of the product is recycled.

Manufacturers of products that claim to be environmentally friendly will face tighter rules on how they are advertised to consumers under changes proposed by the Federal Trade Commission.

It's kind of a Wild West, anybody can claim themselves to be green.

In the last five years or so, there has been an explosion of green claims and environmental claims.

David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product claims.

Companies have also taken it upon themselves to contest each other's green claims.

And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling our economy and our society.

The other thing is that a lot of these supplements aren’t necessarily what they claim to be, and you really have to be wary when you take any of them.

He spoke out against the idea of white and black as distinct groups, claiming that these distinctions ignored the scope of human diversity.

Most notoriously,Oprah's validation of jenny McCarthy's claim that vaccines cause autism(自闭症)has no doubt contributed to much harm through the foolish avoidance of vaccines.

They are also hoping the court's ruling will rein in patent law, which is increasingly being used to claim new life forms as private property.

University officials claim that they dole out iPhones and iPods so as to facilitate students' learning outside of class.

Thecompany claims its motives are essentially public-spirited.

Google claims its plan for the world's biggest online library is to serve the interest of the general public

Supporters of home education claim that it is less expensive and far more efficient than mass public education.

We seek it out in others and are proud to claim it in ourselves, perhaps even more than good looks or intelligence

We can perhaps claim compensation from the steel suppliers for failure to deliver on time.

Claim compensation from the steel suppliers

You claim you are traveling on a scholarship from Delhi University.

"I’ve seen very expensive protein supplements that claim to be high quality but they might not really be beneficial for the average healthy adult," she says.

The other thing is that a lot of these supplements aren't necessarily what they claim to be, and you really have to be wary when you take any of them.

It's about time they had to be registered and insured, so when they do hit a pedestrian or a vehicle, or cause an accident, at least they can be treated and there might be an opportunity to claim.

Tube bosses claim that capacity was limited because so few people wanted to walk up—meaning only one side was used at all times.

But some observers are skeptical, “There is a kind of false precision being hawked by people claiming they are doing ancestry testing,” says Trey Duster, a New York University sociologist.

The Bilski case involves a claimed patent on a method for hedging risk in the energy market.

Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.

Sometimes years are required for truly novel discovery claims to be accepted and appreciated.

Similar to newly staked mining claims, they are full of potential.

Once a discovery claim becomes public, the discoverer receives intellectual credit.

Now the company is suddenly claiming that the 2002 agreement is invalid because of the 2006 legislation, and that only the federal government has regulatory power over nuclear issues.

Not surprisingly, newly published discovery claims and credible discoveries that appear to be important and convincing will always be open to challenge and potential modification or refutation by future researchers.

In the end, credibility “happens” to a discovery claim - a process that corresponds to what philosopher Annette Baier has described as the commons of the mind.

Consequently, discovery claims should be thought of as protoscience.

But, unlike with mining claims, the community takes control of what happens next.

But it takes collective scrutiny and acceptance to transform a discovery claim into a mature discovery.

As a discovery claim works it through the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual’s discovery claim into the community’s credible discovery.

Another urge or need that these gardens appear to respond to, or to arise from is so intrinsic that we are barely ever conscious of its abiding claims on us.

In effect, the White House claimed that it could invalidate any otherwise legitimate state law that it disagrees with.

Every Justice rightly rejected this remarkable claim.

“Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on,” he claimed.

Symbolic of national unity as they claim to be, their very history—and sometimes the way they behave today – embodies outdated and indefensible privileges and inequalities.

As a discovery claim works its way through the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual's discovery claim into the community's credible discove

In the end, credibility "happens" to a discovery claim - a process that corresponds to what philosopher Annette Baier has described as the commons of the mind.

Next time you state your position, formulate an argument for what you claim and honestly ask yourself whether your argument is any good.

This practice was justified by the claim that women were needed at home, and it kept juries unrepresentative of women through the 1960s.

You may proudly claim to only have frozen peas in the freezer-that's not good enough.