Significantly, he adduces not a jot of counterevidence for his novel claim that only "some Germans" opposed Kristallnacht.

The novel claim of this theory is that conceptually-based cognition is unnecessary for such meaning.

Beginning with his book Lifecode in 2004 Pivar has published novel claims about the evolution of species.

A novel legal claim for a federal lawsuit, perhaps, but if there is one victim in the current upside-down world of American politics, it is the capacity for surprise.

Kenneth W. Starr, the lawyer who argued for the tobacco companies, said today that the class action was "an extremely novel claim, never tested in a court of law."

Mr. Lackey's "novel" claim was "not without foundation," Justice Stevens said.

In the process, plaintiff fails to cite a single case imposing liability based on the novel legal claims she now asserts.

It is more like an arena in which most novel claims are shot down by fellow scientists, making it rash to bet on the longevity of any new claim.

But Judge Lamberth rejected a novel claim made by the Jenco family that had drawn attention to the case.

To me, this was legally, logically, and ethically sound, but it was a novel claim - at least novel to baseball.