Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end there was long and controversial litigation , which nevertheless failed to establish the rights that Kagan sought . |
| 2 | The Supreme Privy Council , established during the reign of Peter 's widow Catherine I ( 1725–27 ) , sought to establish the right to participation in , and an effective veto over , all major policy decisions . |
| 3 | It was n't that Ice-T never got to meet the highly desirable Coffy , whose destruction of dope dealers took place to the accompaniment of a Roy Ayers score , but rather that he and Hinojosa failed to obtain the rights to a James Brown track from the movie Black Caesar . |
| 4 | Where Thatcherism sought to limit the power of organized labour , the PSOE was closely allied to the socialist segment of the union movement and promised to extend the rights of unions and workers . |
| 5 | who saw themselves as sexual outlaws , rose to defend the rights of people with proscribed sexualities to seek self-determination for their bodies . |
| 6 | Although formally set out only at a later date ( c.1372 ) , they came to include the rights to create notaries , to legitimize bastards , to grant letters conferring the status of bourgeoisie and nobility , to issue pardons and remissions , to license fairs and markets , to permit suitors to be represented at law by proctors , and to legislate for the common weal of the kingdom . |
| 7 | Apart from these various policies of positive discrimination for deprived areas , a series of Acts of Parliament during the 1960s and 1970s sought to strengthen the rights of workers against unfair dismissal , the rights of tenants against unfair eviction , and the rights of immigrants and women against discrimination in the areas of employment , finance , housing , etc . |
| 8 | Under his tutelage , the Indians began to demand the rights over their lands which they had been guaranteed by Brazil 's Constitution . |
| 9 | Too simple a judgment perhaps : it might better be said that , manifested as the Consumers ' Movement , Co-operation had become an alternative presentation of the rights of ownership against the rights of labour , while trade unionism existed to assert the rights of labour against those of ownership . |
| 10 | And this organization , which sought to protect the rights of the newly colonized , provided much of the original intellectual and moral impetus which led ultimately to the formation of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain . |
| 11 | In the Four-Power Treaty , signed by the USA , Britain , Japan and France , each power agreed to recognize the rights of the others in their Pacific island possessions . |
| 12 | It was at this stage that he sought to qualify the right of national self-determination even in the colonies — ‘ to support savages and barbarians ’ , he wrote in Neue Zeit , ‘ who resist the penetration of capitalist civilization would be romantic ’ . |
| 13 | If the restriction had appeared in the Articles , it would have been unlawful , and therefore invalid , if it purported to fetter the rights of the company to increase its capital . |
| 14 | WHEN CHARLES WEBB 'S novel The Graduate was first published in 1963 , Lawrence Turman , a 37-year-old independent producer with a couple of films to his name — The Young Doctors and I Could Go On Singing — read it , liked it and managed to acquire the rights in 1964 for $20,000 from the ingenuous author . |
| 15 | This second group of historians would therefore argue that the Labour Party was emerging before 1900 , and certainly not later than the famous Taff Vale case of 1900 and 1901 — when trade unions appeared to lose the right to strike without facing the threat of financial penalties . |
| 16 | This approach ignores the fact that the taxpayer first had to acquire the right to grant sub-licenses . |
| 17 | Or could a third party claim that it had never indicated dissent and only now wished to exercise the right ? |
| 18 | Apart from the delta , Turkey had to concede the right of merchant ships to pass through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles ( which was crucial from the point of view of Russian trade ) , and to surrender rather more significant territories in the eastern part of her empire ( because Russia was determined to control the eastern shore of the Black Sea and to enlarge her buffer zone around Georgia ) . |
| 19 | In a formal statement on Nov. 8 , they condemned attacks by the Yugoslav National Army on Dubrovnik and other Croatian cities , but they added that recognition for seceding republics " can only be envisaged in the framework of an overall settlement " and that such a settlement had to guarantee the rights of " national or ethnic groups within the individual republics . " |
| 20 | Under Article 36 a third party can claim a right under a treaty provided the parties intended to create the right and the third party assents thereto . |
| 21 | Popes and emperors disputed the city and the citizens attempted to assert the right to rule themselves . |
| 22 | CRL attempted to buy the rights to the film and were refused point-blank . |
| 23 | At Dunstable , where the rebels were townsmen , they tried to restrict freedom of trade to within the borough , whereas the rural Essex rebels had followed precisely the opposite policy , and at Yarmouth the insurgents , drawn from the neighbouring countryside attempted to overthrow the rights of the municipality ( 98 , pp.41 , 108–11 ) . |
| 24 | Others are those who did not adventure themselves on the Crusade , but stayed to maintain the rights of their absent lords in their proper manors and castles , but as the years passed and their lords did not return they have been turned out from their posts of trust . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ If a woman wanted to maintain the right to come back into a job she would have to take part in in-service courses to keep up to date with changes in the working world . ’ |