Bandic claims his experience as Zagreb mayor in the past 10 years shows that he knows what it takes to be president.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

You may not like me," he says to the jury, " "but I am good for you and furthermore he claims in this what can only be described as sort of quasi-religious language that he has no choice in the matter.

他对陪审团说：，“你们可能不喜欢我，但我对你们有益,此外他的以下主张,仅能说是,某种类似宗教的语言,因为宣称在这件事情上他别无选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So historians can and in fact have many times taken issue with a lot of Weber's historical claims. But he's invaluable, as the critic John Guillory has argued, for our purposes in the understanding of Milton and of a lot of the cultural business of the seventeenth century in general.

所以历史学家可以，事实上已经对韦伯的历史学断言,持反对意见，但就像评论家约翰古月里说的，对我们来说，在对弥尔顿以及很多,17世纪文化方面的事的了解上,他的意见是非常宝贵的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A blogger for the Huffington Post, Sedaei claims that writing served as a sort of white powder for him, which he could then throw over the invisible man and discover his shape.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15