Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] rights " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story is of a civil rights leader who was born 25 years ago and it 's a day in his life . |
| 2 | ‘ My dear officers , ’ said a rather breathless but still well modulated voice , ‘ of what am I accused that you should treat me like the nucleus of a civil rights demonstration ? |
| 3 | the development of a civil rights movement as an intrinsic but distinct element in the social and political opposition to the regime ; |
| 4 | The passage by the House of representatives of a civil rights bill by 381 votes to 38 on Nov. 7 , following Senate approval by 93 votes to 5 on Oct. 30 , brought to an end a two-year battle for enactment which had included Bush 's 1990 veto of a previous bill and months of inconclusive efforts in mid-1991 by Democratic and moderate Republican senators to work out a compromise with the administration [ see p. 38381 ] . |
| 5 | ICI reversed a 10p loss to close 6p better at 1,082p as fears eased of a massive rights issue to coincide with today 's results and expected demerger plans . |
| 6 | a ) Help with clearing land mines ; b ) Targeting rural poverty ; c ) Helping the Cambodian government to make the best use of aid and d ) The UK should use its influence in the United Nations to ensure the fullest support for the move to peace and democracy in Cambodia , and specifically should call for the establishment of a Human Rights Rapporteur for Cambodia reporting directly to the United Nations Security Council . |
| 7 | This was the first time that a member of the military had been tried and found guilty of a human rights violation in 11 years of civil war marked by accusations of government-sanctioned torture , kidnapping and murder . |
| 8 | On March 3 the government had announced the creation of a human rights department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to examine and promote human rights in Iraq and abroad . |
| 9 | In a press statement issued afterwards , NICRA said that the events in Dungannon had proved the need for a civil rights body in Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | L M Ericsson Telephone AB filed with the US Securities & Exchange Commission for a transferable rights issue to buy up to $293.5m of convertible subordinated debentures due June 30 2000 . |
| 11 | Beginning in the 50s , we became active in a pre-civil rights movement and were later known as a civil rights school . |
| 12 | Marshall had been appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967 after a successful career as a civil rights lawyer , legal director of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People ( NAACP ) and an Appeals Court judge . |
| 13 | I recognise that dealing effectively and sensitively with rape as a human rights violation requires careful treatment and consideration . |
| 14 | Family planning Salvadorean fashion has become so notorious as to be classified as a human rights issue . |
| 15 | Possibly it has its origins in the ‘ white noise ’ techniques which the Brits , ever the innovators , pioneered in Northern Ireland in the 1970s ( it has always seemed unjust that what was deplored then as a human rights abuse was later marketed under the brand name of acid house ) . |
| 16 | These documents demonstrate a commitment to developing broadly based , open political agitation , but they contain little about a civil rights strategy in the north ; such a strategy could be deduced from the analysis which they contain , but the documents give no indication that it had been proposed in any detail . |
| 17 | CAIRD GROUP , the waste disposal company headed by former stockbroker Peter Linacre , is raising £34.5m through a two-for-one rights issue of convertible preference shares . |
| 18 | Page 19 Waste rights : Caird , the waste disposal group , is raising £34.5m through a two-for-one rights issue . |
| 19 | It asked that members of the Republican Movement be permitted to take part in a civil rights march to Dungannon from Coalisland … |
| 20 | Beginning in the 50s , we became active in a pre-civil rights movement and were later known as a civil rights school . |
| 21 | Kingfisher is calling on shareholders for as much as £313 million in a two-part rights issue to part finance the deal . |
| 22 | The suggestion that Thomas 's race was a consideration in his nomination was highly embarrassing for Bush as it coincided with the president 's unrelenting opposition to a civil rights bill passed by Congress which he had pledged to veto on the grounds that it supported minority quotas . |
| 23 | Although sympathetic to a progressive rights theory , Dignan attempts to avoid this problem by examining in some breadth and detail the validity of the assumptions made by Dworkin concerning modern liberal political systems , and argues that Dworkin 's assumptions may help provide the peace movement with a legal theory . |
| 24 | She 's been asked to sit on a human rights commission and now she 's full of stories of gruesome tortures in Turkish prisons , of Russian poets locked up in psychiatric wards . ’ |
| 25 | FIGHTS break out at a Black Rights demonstration in Euston , London . |
| 26 | It follows a campaign by a civil rights activist called John Bugg . |
| 27 | Yesterday , the Soviet Union blamed Britain for the cancellation of a visit by a human rights delegation , saying British officials insisted on sending Mr Michael Bourdeaux of Keston College — someone they knew would not be given a Soviet visa . |
| 28 | At the weekend , he climbed into a twin-engined , four-passenger Cessna-310 provided by a human rights group … and headed back to the homeland he had abandoned . |
| 29 | Compensation claims amounting to US$400,000,000 for property destroyed and looted during the invasion [ see p. 37706 ] were outstanding against the US government ; estimates of the number of civilians killed during the fighting varied from the official US figure of 220 civilian dead [ see p. 37181 ] through that of 320 ( with 3,000 wounded ) given by a human rights group , Physicians for Human Rights , to one as high as 4,000 dead . |
| 30 | There follows an attempted conspiracy by ‘ I-narrators ’ in the aim of increasing their prominence and defining their specific needs , a revolt by several characters against their authors ( most notably Oedipa Maas from The Crying of Lot 49 who declaims her views as a feminist despite Pynchon 's ‘ macho ’ stance ) , and finally , a protest by a gay rights group against the under-representation of homosexuality in literature . |