Normally, the group openly claims responsibility for its crimes.
He also openly claims the authority to decide how people reproduce.
No longer could he claim openly to be an atheist.
A Christian by religion, he is a cynical man who openly claims that his revolutionary ideas do not extend to women.
While he was living in Gerar, Abraham openly claimed that Sarah was his sister.
Scio Marses believed that the matter should be opened to the Assembly, or at least the part of it that they could openly claim.
Perhaps he would have openly claimed the throne right after he killed Goliath.
Edson openly claimed, though rather tongue-in-cheek, that he wrote for the money.
One judge openly claimed that he "would not tolerate a homosexual".