#claimed

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

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Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed. ↗

— Katie MacAlister

#semaphore #unclaimed #communication

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

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For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game. ↗

— J. C. Watts

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I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

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Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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