The opposition had claimed victory hours earlier on the basis of its own vote count.

China's effort to limit families to one child is not working as well as Beijing had earlier claimed.

Despite the hunger he had claimed earlier, Bert barely touched his food.

Forcing his mind away from his wife, whom breast cancer had claimed two years earlier, Buchanan headed toward the parking lot on the comer.

US officials had claimed earlier that the factory was being used to produce biological weapons.

Kennedy had earlier claimed he would order an attack on such sites if fired upon, but he decided to not act unless another attack was made.

Very clearly, no matter what he had claimed earlier, he was not "just" the scout for the traders, he was their real leader.

Gould had earlier claimed to Grant that raising the price of gold would actually help farmers.

In 1998, Ramos hesitantly admitted that, contrary to what his government earlier claimed, the economic fundamentals of the country may actually be unsound.

Unfortunately, this name had also been claimed earlier, for a genus of ferns first collected in Nepal.