It seemed to imply that China was staking a claim to an entire international waterway.
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By calling themselves workers, members of the new movement are staking a claim to this common identity.
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Much of Brazil is untitled, with indigenous people staking a claim to land based on ancestral rights, amid competition from agribusiness and wealthy elites.
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A Turkish drill ship has been docked west of Cyprus since early May, effectively staking a claim to an area also claimed by Cyprus.
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The adoption of cryptocurrencies as a global source of funds has a long way to go before staking a claim to the world's economy.
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Like the production as a whole, it somehow reminds you of a generic host of golden-age musicals without ever staking a claim to its own unassailable identity.
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Thornhill refuses to acknowledge that the plot he's staking a claim to is not, as Captain James Cook had declared from the shoreline in 1770, "terra nullius" ("empty land").
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The disagreements got so bad that four different contractors collectively filed legal documents, or liens, charging that the Neumanns owed them money and staking a claim to the value of the townhome.
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But while two of our award winners come from that game it wasn't the only big contest taking place, with both Tottenham and Arsenal staking a claim to interrupt Leicester's unlikely title march.
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The same is proving true in net, where Jaroslav Halak (23 saves) earned his second straight win while possibly staking a claim to a larger percentage of a time share with Thomas Greiss.
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Through the sheer power of perception, noting details in the landscape and the people he saw at a distance, Naipaul was staking a claim to England, where he had come as an outsider.
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But on the artist's latest full-length Open Your Eyes, released August 19, he pushes forward the style's insatiable impulse for innovation, staking a claim to an ambitiously expansive definition of the genre.
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By proudly embracing his left-wing agenda, Mr. Sanders is staking a claim to the liberal-most parts of the Democratic base, while banking on his ability to still build a diverse coalition.
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By staking a claim to the president's legacy, Clinton is hoping to capitalize on the unprecedented turnout of African-American voters in South Carolina, who were energized by the country's first black president in 2008.
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FIFA's lawyers have in recent months balanced the urge to be early in staking a claim to victimhood with the necessity of allowing time to pass to establish distance from a leadership group tied to scandal.
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Even dances with no obvious agenda have seemed like quiet protests, simply by virtue of staking a claim to space, time and the attention, amid so much urgently vying for it, of the people gathered to watch.
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The more casual players who loved the world of Dragon Ball and the competitive players looking to scratch an itch were both staking a claim to the game, and both sides had very different reasons to be excited.
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It's a feminist tableau, defying body-shaming and staking a claim to corporeal pleasure — which makes it a politically powerful statement, and the high point of a program of three short plays in which political messaging is paramount.
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The art for the physical release of Death Grips' double album The Powers That B reminds me of that era, of resourceful youth annoying the world by staking a claim to their corner of it by any means necessary.
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Now Biden is running for president a third time, and the 2020 race features several candidates of color, women, and an openly gay millennial, among others staking a claim to the future his opponents say he is not progressive enough to represent.
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In staking a claim to PDVSA's overseas assets, Conoco joins Canadian gold mining company Crystallex, which has won a $1.4 billion judgement for expropriation of its assets, and holders of PDVSA's 2020 bond, which is backed by a 50% stake in Citgo.
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What currently passes for policy fights among Democrats boils down to the struggle to discover the magic point where compromise and passage become guaranteed, rather than developing the best possible policy and staking a claim to be the party that will resolve America's problems.
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Telenor aims to fight back by staking a claim to a slice of the mobile ad market that is growing fast, especially in emerging and developing markets where a rise in smartphone sales is giving many consumers access to the internet for the first time.
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The Museum of Modern Art is going all in for Latin American geometric abstraction, it seems, while the Detroit Institute of Arts is making work by contemporary African American artists a priority, and the Smithsonian's American Art Museum seems to be staking a claim to the folk art canon.
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The model aligns education providers with students' career outcomes, and one startup is staking a claim to be the leader in the space; Kenzie Academy, a year-long program with a physical campus in Indianapolis — and a student body that's 66 percent online — announced a partnership with Community Investment Management (CIM) earlier this week that provides $100 million in debt to cover the operating costs associated with students who defer payment through ISAs.
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When we ignore threats to heritage in other parts of the world, while obsessing over the ruins of Palmyra; when we call for intervention to save the ruins without once mentioning the human victims of the war; when we focus only on classical (or Christian) ruins at the expense of Islamic shrines and monuments, which form the majority of ISIS's targets; when we insist that Palmyra is global heritage and belongs to all of us; when we lecture Syrians about how to restore (or not) their damaged ancient sites; when we proclaim that the legacy of Palmyra is all around us, in the West, in the form of neoclassical architecture, what are we doing but staking a claim to our inheritance?
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Superficially, the bullying has no sexual content, but is underpinned by the aggressors staking a claim to dominance for their 'type of boy' (See Mac An Ghaill, 1994 and Duncan, 1999).
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Sappell, Joel; Welkos, Robert (June 24, 1990). "The Making of L. Ron Hubbard: Staking a Claim to Blood Brotherhood." Los Angeles Times, p. A38:5 According to Scientology biographies, during a journey to Washington, D.C. in 1923 Hubbard learned of Freudian psychology from Commander Joseph "Snake" Thompson, a U.S. Navy psychoanalyst and medic.
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Lord Derby married Alice Spencer, but was without male issue. He died under mysterious circumstances and some have claimed that he was poisoned in order to prevent him from staking a claim to the throne of England through his maternal grandmother. On his death the baronies of Stanley, Strange and Mohun fell into abeyance between his three daughters. James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.
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Rugby World Cup winner Will Greenwood is another who has benefited from the doctor's treatment after 8 months with a groin problem. Weeks later he was staking a claim to a recall to the England team. Even international sportsmen as far away as Australia have sought treatment from Müller-Wohlfahrt – Australian rules footballers Ben Reid, Max Rooke and Mark Coughlan were treated for chronic soft tissue injuries. Likewise he has also treated professional cyclists including Stephen Roche.
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A post office was established on April 4, 1889.Shirk, George H. (1966). Oklahoma Place Names, p. 94. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. In 1889 some fifty thousand potential settlers gathered at the edges of the Unassigned Lands in hopes of staking a claim to a plot. At noon on April 22, 1889, cannons resounded at a 2-million acre (8,100 km) section of Indian Territory, launching president Benjamin Harrison's "Hoss Race" or Land Run of 1889.
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Faith threatened to scuttle Perelman's attempt to take MacAndrews & Forbes private in 1983 by staking a claim to a third of it due to a bank loan in her name. She further declared that Perelman defrauded the owners of the First Sterling Corporation (i.e. her) by buying thousands of dollars of gifts for the florist with the company's money, and made a very public spectacle of the divorce. Perelman responded by hiring Roy Cohn and flatly denying all of the allegations.
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In 1836, George spotted lands in Iowa which reminded him of his boyhood home in Virginia, staking a claim to what he dubbed "Virginia Grove" in Louisa County. George planted crops there in 1836 and 1837, and wintered with his family back in Montgomery County, Indiana. While raising his crops in 1838, George sent for his wife and family to come to Iowa. Rebecca hired 10 men to help her move her family of 10 children, including Ambrose, from Indiana to Iowa.
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The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move: :1. c4 A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular and, according to various databases, anywhere from one of the two most successful to the fourth most successful of White's twenty possible first moves. White begins the fight for the by staking a claim to the d5-square from the wing, in hypermodern style. Although many lines of the English have a distinct character, the opening is often used as a transpositional device in much the same way as 1.
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Mu tracked her down and married her. Upon returning to Baekje, the princess discovered that her new husband's yam field was full of gold whose value he had been unaware of. The Silla princess's discovery of gold in her husband's yam fields closely parallels Gameunjang- agi's discovery of the same, and the princess's expulsion for sexual impropriety has been compared to the goddess's expulsion for staking a claim to sexual power through her linea nigra. A major difference is that the woman is the protagonist of the Samgong bon-puri, whereas the man is the hero of the Samguk yusa legend.
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Nottinghamshire's claim to Robin Hood's heritage is disputed, with Yorkists staking a claim to the outlaw. In demonstrating Yorkshire's Robin Hood heritage, the historian J. C. Holt drew attention to the fact that although Sherwood Forest is mentioned in Robin Hood and the Monk, there is little information about the topography of the region, and thus suggested that Robin Hood was drawn to Nottinghamshire through his interactions with the city's sheriff.Holt, Robin Hood pp. 90–91. Moreover, the linguist Lister Matheson has observed that the language of the Gest of Robyn Hode is written in a definite northern dialect, probably that of Yorkshire.
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The military implications of a German state having access to a permanent pool of trained pilots and air industry expertise were uppermost in the minds of politicians. However, geo-political priorities moved on, and in 1953 Lufthansa was founded, a West German airline with its primary hub reassuringly located next door to a massive US airbase south of Frankfurt am Main. In 1955 the East German government responded, staking a claim to the "Lufthansa" brand by creating Deutsche Lufthansa. Since the Lufthansa name had already been registered by the West German airline, the East German entity faced a succession of lawsuits and was, in the meantime, not able to register as a member of the International Air Transport Association.
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Russia is also a leading producer and exporter of minerals and gold. Russia is the largest diamond-producing nation in the world, estimated to produce over 33 million carats in 2013, or 25% of global output valued at over $3.4 billion, with state-owned ALROSA accounting for approximately 95% of all Russian production."Ranking Of The World's Diamond Mines By Estimated 2013 Production", Kitco, 20 August 2013. Expecting the area to become more accessible as climate change melts Arctic ice, and believing the area contains large reserves of untapped oil and natural gas, Russian explorers on 2 August 2007 in submersibles planted the Russian flag on the Arctic seabed, staking a claim to energy sources right up to the North Pole.
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At the start of the 1921 season Arthur Singe made the switch to rugby league. There had been mention in the press that he was unlucky to miss out on selection for the New Zealand team to tour Australia. While there were murmurings that he was unhappy himself with being overlooked and that he was disappointed to only be in the reserves for the North Island v South Island match where players were staking a claim to make the New Zealand team. In an 18 April edition of the Auckland Star about the Marist Old Boys rugby league clubs prospects for the season they noted that there was "a certain amount of secretive whispering, which all lends to give the impression that one or two well-known rugby men are going to join up".
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