The dialogue must take those respective claims to ultimate truth as givens, and go on from there.

Had either party taken the trouble to analyze objectively the work of the other, the respective claims would have dissolved and crumbled.

But, as the territory was also claimed by Pennsylvania, both colonies began pushing for action to improve their respective claims.

Would you care to explain the basis of the respective claims?

However, neither country was prepared to yield their respective claims over the territory.

The settlers from Connecticut and New York jostled over their respective claims.

The border was not fixed, but varied according to the ability of competing nobles in the frontier region to manifest their respective claims.

Jefferson proposed that the existing states surrender their respective claims to the region in order for its development to take place under national authority.

In Christchurch both men lodged their respective claims of around 8,000 hectares.

When oral argument occurs, each side has twenty-five minutes to state its respective claims and five minutes for rebuttal.