lay claim to

基本解释

U.S. President George Bush says South Ossetia and Abkhazia are part of Georgia's international recognized borders and Russia must not lay claim to the territories.
美国总统布什说，南奥塞梯和阿布哈兹在国际承认的格鲁吉亚疆界内，俄罗斯不该要求它们的领土主权。
The main motivation for librarians to assert their professional status is so that they can lay claim to higher-paid “ALA Accredited Degree or Equivalent” positions in library institutions.
对于图书馆员而言，其坚持自己职业的主要原因是，那样的话他们就将有权要求在图书馆机构中获得“ALA认可的学位或与之等同的”更高报酬的职位。
So it would be important to the people writing this story to lay claim to all of this territory.
所以对于写这个故事的人来说，声称这块领土属于自己非常重要。

Bruce Springsteen did the honors: "This was a band that not only wanted to lay claim to this world, but had their eyes on the next one,too.
SUD and other critics claim France Telecom used extremely coercive methods to lay off 22,000 workers between 2006 and 2008.

One of the Strata speakers who can genuinely lay claim to the title made the case.
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But which of the heavyweights can truly lay claim to the speed crown?
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