Bagrat's son, George I, however, inherited a longstanding claim to David's succession.

Their accounts refuted the white Government's longstanding claim that Mr. Biko had died accidentally.

Neighboring Bulgaria has longstanding claims on part of Macedonia.

After agreeing to go there, his family then decided that considering the region's longstanding disputed claim with Syria, it was not safe either.

I was to vanish from all their lives before any longstanding claims of affection could be made.

While there were longstanding claims that the photographs were hoaxes, Crawley undertook "a scientific and analytical approach" to analyzing the images starting in the 1970s.

However, as was noted in the Travel section of Aug. 2, Canada and the United States both have longstanding claims on the island.

Taiwan's Nationalists have given up their longstanding claim to represent all 1.2 billion Chinese on the mainland.

Both do have longstanding territorial claims, though they lack the means to exercise them.

Macedonia has longstanding territorial claims on it from Bulgaria and Greece.