The fight over who can lay claim to a place is an old one.

I could lay claim to a lot of things in my life up until that point.

At least United can no longer lay claim to that record.

However, many other places in the county lay claim to the story.

Over the years two women laid claim to being his wife.

It is the sort of play in which the set can lay claim to being the star.

Soon the mark would be gone, but she knew she'd still feel every place where he'd laid claim to her.

Did she really think that university could lay claim to such a world as this?

What was she, that he could lay claim to her like this?

Her heart knew that whatever she wanted to believe, he had already laid claim, moved in, and taken over.

The Magyars (Hungarians) in particular lay claim to Hunnic heritage.

My balance was damaged by that sound, because I no longer dared lay claim to any particular hope or promise.

Which, the purser wondered, did this outlander lay claim to, the swordsman or the girl?

No particular religion can ever embody the perfection of Religion or lay claim to a monopoly of Truth.

Congress struck back, coming close to ending the Medicaid entitlement, by which states lay automatic claim to extra federal money when Medicaid rolls rise.

As with all empirical judgements, it is, consequently, unable to announce objective necessity or lay claim to a priori validity.

They've got three ships- they could send one or even two after us, while the remaining one or two lay claim to the Dancing Star.

Instead, the rapporteur complains that people "wrongfully lay claim" to the right of asylum in Europe.

The best lay claim to a neighborhood, an ethnic group or a moment.

Additionally, if such a prisoner were brought ashore, and any Roman lay claim to him, he was to be released.