prior claims

This is the territory of other creatures with prior claims, and campers must accommodate them.

Dayyán did attain His presence and, in so doing, renounced all prior claims to leadership.

This is despite measures that were taken to prevent events like this from happening as prior claims for mining are still valid.

- appealing to a man to respect the prior claims on her body of another is hardly the thought-pattern of a feminist.

The prospectus devotes a lot of space to listing classes of people and investors with prior claims to the casino's cash flow.

People and small businesses with experience-based health insurance policies have their premiums (and their very insurability) based on prior claims.

The company originally intended to place about 50,000 acres under cultivation, but it had difficulty securing sufficient water because earlier ditches held irrigation rights based on prior claims.

His prior claims of successful spiritual warfare in Kiambu, Kenya involving an alleged witch known as "Mama Jane" also came under specific scrutiny.

Would prohibit employers from inquiring into a job applicant's prior claims for workers' compensation benefits, or from discriminating against employees who have filed for such benefits.

Seeking Compensation The Australian position throughout the dispute has been that a new phosphate contract reached with Nauru just before independence implicitly removed all prior claims.

Further independent analysis of were unable to confirm prior claims of magnetic particles and microspherules, concluding that there was no evidence for a Younger Dryas impact event.

Though there were no allegations that Koch obtained any financial benefit from the corruption, the wave of scandals undermined Koch's prior claims that he would run a patronage-free city government.

I wish to show him the princess's gift and remind him of her prior claims, remind him that the will of God is more binding than the will of kings.

These prior claims are controversial and the first paper to claim the discovery of Josephson's effect, and to make the requisite experimental checks, was that of Anderson and Rowell.

It would prohibit insurance companies from canceling coverage or excluding members of small groups because of existing health problems or prior claims, and try to eliminate gaps in coverage for workers changing jobs.

Despite prior claims, he was not her boyfriend, and the only date they went on ended violently, leaving Johnny with severe head trauma and making her into a recluse for the next few weeks.

The NAACP Image Awards have been the subject of controversy due to prior claims that certain nominees were undeserving of NAACP attention.

Daley took credit for building four major expressways focused on the Loop, and city-owned O'Hare Airport (which became the world's busiest airport, displacing Midway Airport's prior claims).

These notes refer to a beneficiary who is absolutely entitled to trust income, as it arises, subject to any prior claims by the trustees for expenses or other outgoings properly payable out of income.

Dublin was besieged by the victorious Máel Sechnaill, who forced it to surrender slaves and valuables, as well as give up all its prior claims to Uí Néill held territory.

The most contentious issue is certain to be the desire of New York City to get an increase in state school aid and at least a down payment on nearly $1 billion in prior claims for education aid.

Bankruptcy courts in the United States have the power and authority to subordinate prior claims on the assets of a bankrupt debtor to the claims of junior claimants based on principles of equity.

German economists claimed for him the title of "Father of Statistics"; but English writers disputed this, asserting that it ignored the prior claims of William Petty and other earlier writers on the subject.

The validity of the record claim has been disputed due to prior claims and, apparent in Reichert's flight data, a downward trend in total energy and airspeed during the 19.3 second interval claimed as a sustained flight.

People lower down the hierarchy can only make claims if the deceased did not have relatives who rank above them; and a distinction is made between full and half-blood relatives, the former having prior claims (Cretney, 1984, pp. 698-700).