The Council of Fifty had a theoretical claim to succession, but it was a secret organization.

Marxist urban politics is now much more coy about all-embracing grand, theoretical claims.

That post-modernism should seem worn out is, of course, no small irony, since its major theoretical claim was that modernism had become threadbare.

Secondly, it names the levels of analysis from which theoretical claims are made.

Further, even the theoretical claims of the court to jurisdiction over citizens of nonmember states under any circumstances is deeply offensive.

Although not a full-fledged theory in its own right, it sets out various theoretical claims based on the current literature in a range of research domains.

The theoretical claims of such rational reconstructions have the status of general theories of human competencies and behavior.

Many of his theoretical claims have since fallen out of favor.

Mr. Phillips's avoidance of the big picture stems from an aversion to sweeping theoretical claims.

This means that the doctrine of privity of contract does not apply, and P2 in the example would have a theoretical claim against B.