Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] the rights " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the rights of fathers is what is being investigated in the narrative now . |
| 2 | Colonel Goreng was moving away from the details of the operation to talk about the Western concept of ‘ human rights ’ , to mock it , to say what a ridiculous shibboleth it was when it stopped you defending the rights of those who were n't criminals , when Mrs Goreng knocked on the door . |
| 3 | So , you have the rights you sought . |
| 4 | ‘ Freedom ’ , said Oliver Wendell Holmes , ‘ is freedom for the thought we hate ’ , since if we deny the rights of the odious , we may also threaten the rights of the unpopular , which in time may become the wisdom of posterity . |
| 5 | Elizabeth Holt , a Fleming director , said : ‘ Given the share register we regarded the rights as more of a placing . ’ |
| 6 | We want the rights of way network to be improved and modernised by consensus , with more bridleways , more links between rights of way to make circular walks , and links which may also be used to take people out of sensitive areas for forestry and farming . |
| 7 | ‘ We uphold the rights of free nations . ’ |
| 8 | This is clearly seen if we compare the rights which legatees obtained . |
| 9 | They shared the rights and the obligations imposed by the terms of their occupation . |
| 10 | They assert the rights of those who use bus services to some form of protection and a place to go if their interests are not properly safeguarded . |
| 11 | but assuming the deal goes ahead , how will it affect the rights of the policyholders , who at present own the company ? |
| 12 | if you remember the question that the founding fathers faced was how do you create a government which is strong enough to endure and to defend the nation and defend the country yet a government which is not so strong that it erodes the rights of individuals within it , this is the , the essence of the , the problem of government as , as the founding fathers saw it . |
| 13 | Similarly , he has the rights and obligations of a buyer as against the person from whom he purchases his raw materials . |
| 14 | It infringes the rights of the individual . |
| 15 | that it was not bound by the resolution of the House to the effect that the matter was privileged , for it affected the rights of subjects outside the House ; |
| 16 | Although the father came by the bicycle innocently , if he assumes the rights of an owner by selling it , for instance , he will steal it . |
| 17 | For example , if the accused obtains ownership through deception but the owner retains possession or control , he will commit theft when he assumes the rights of the owner . |
| 18 | The Hodgson case shows how individual journalists who are aware of the Convention can use it to enhance the rights of the media generally . |
| 19 | Occasionally this requires recognizing that the consent and the circumstances surrounding it create the rights it purported to create . |
| 20 | It established the rights of members as members , not as principals to the transactions of the Organisation . |
| 21 | He upheld the rights of students imprisoned by SAVAK , of intellectuals and the poor . |
| 22 | After trading for some months , he has been approached by a company which says it owns the rights to the trade name Pizza Parlour and that he must desist from using it . |
| 23 | In place of this he asserts the rights of members of society to exercise supervision , as trustees of the property of the people , over economic and enterprise management , and to judge management performance . |
| 24 | There is the irony : that , just when British Empirical Socialism had come to terms with the idea of a mixed economy , when it had accepted that for the indefinite future a public sector and a private sector would co-exist , when the tangle of objections which the Webbs had seen to the development of a privately-owned industrial co-operative sector had been so far cleared away as to open the path to a natural growth of industrial democracy by a means which , because it reconciled the rights and interests of labour with those of ownership , would have been sustainable , the Labour Government ignored or overlooked the opportunity . |
| 25 | It restricted the rights of LEAs to refuse to provide primary , secondary or further education for pupils or students not belonging to their area , and their powers to recover the costs of providing it . |
| 26 | Meanwhile the owner the person who lived a small terraced property , whose garden backs onto the fields tried to get the hounds several dozen hounds off these two dogs who were being savaged to death and he had a heart attack in the process , Chairman and was hospitalized for several weeks That Chairman is the effect of the hunt on one of my constituents whose job it is for me to defend the rights that I was elected here to defend the rights of my constituents , not to be harassed in this manner . |