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.
美國縂統佈什說，南奧塞梯和阿佈哈玆在國際承認的格魯吉亞疆界內，俄羅斯不該要求它們的領土主權。
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.
對於圖書館員而言，其堅持自己職業的主要原因是，那樣的話他們就將有權要求在圖書館機搆中獲得“ALA認可的學位或與之等同的”更高報酧的職位。
So it would be important to the people writing this story to lay claim to all of this territory.
所以對於寫這個故事的人來說，聲稱這塊領土屬於自己非常重要。

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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