Claim
Since then, Bolivia retains the policy of state territorial claim of a sovereign outlet to the Pacific Ocean. As part of this policy, the national coat of arms shows 10 stars, 9 of the current departments, plus the Bolivian coast.
The internal communications of the armed forces carried the slogan in the footnotes: "The sea is our right. To recover it is a must."
Also in Santa Cruz, for choosing beauty contests, as well as Miss Santa Cruz, Miss Litoral.
Read more about this topic: Litoral Department
Famous quotes containing the word claim:
“I couldn’t claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.”
—Kathleen Raine (b. 1908)
“O God, oh! of thine only worthy blood,
And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,
And drown in it my sins’ black memory.
That thou remember them, some claim as debt;
I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do not scorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)