Example sentences of "[pos pn] right to [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I 'm just exercising my right to Freedom of Expression . ’ |
| 2 | I am childless ; but the Jews are my children and I love them as a parent should , which is to say that I do n't love them for their qualities ( remarkable as these seem to me to be , naturally ) , and only wish them to exist , and to flourish , and to have their right to life and love . |
| 3 | As women around the world celebrated International Women 's Week , Tibetan women were reliving the anniversary of the 1959 Uprising , when thousands of unarmed Tibetan women defended their right to life and freedom with sticks and stones on the streets of Lhasa . |
| 4 | This pattern dated originally from the Middle Ages when the towns were able to purchase their right to self-government by paying an impecunious Crown for a charter . |
| 5 | Tell the President that you have not forgotten about Wang Xizhe and other Pro-Democracy Movement activists who are still jail for the peaceful exercise of their right to freedom of expression . |
| 6 | The newspaper and its journalists applied to the European Court , claiming that the ban was an infringement of their right to freedom of expression . |
| 7 | At all times you should respect their right to confidentiality . ’ |
| 8 | Surprisingly more than half the girls — even though they were aware of their right to confidentiality — would be to embarrassed to talk to a doctor about sex or contraception . |
| 9 | No one loses their right to tax relief on borrowings up to £30,000 for these purposes . |
| 10 | It is important to note that in 1912–14 the protestant — loyalist group saw their right to violence as prior to that of the official state . |
| 11 | Yet in today 's Britain many groups of individuals are systematically discriminated against by a society which fails to recognise their right to equality of opportunity . |
| 12 | Crimean Tatars had been drifting back to their former homeland since 1987 , and a June 1988 central government ruling confirmed their right to residency [ see p. 36036 ] . |
| 13 | This places the people in a dilemma ; while they reject the Compact of Free Association , the Trusteeship Agreement with respect to Palau remains in force , depriving them of their right to self-determination . |
| 14 | Developing nations argued that the motion on protection of rainforests abused their right to self-determination [ see ED 49-50 ] and the convention on biodiversity was seen by some as a ruse to gain control of their resources . |
| 15 | In every symbolic aspect , the professional solidarity of the teachers in asserting their right to discipline nubile girls was a jarring , discordant event which made plain that other authorities would increasingly interfere in the privacy of the family . |
| 16 | In the rise to power of individuals in the closing decades of the Roman Republic many magistrates advertised their right to office by reminding the populace of the virtues of their ancestors through portraits reproduced on the coins they were authorised to mint . |
| 17 | Rave kids should be throwing petrol bombs at the Houses Of Parliament over the way their right to party has been thrown in the proverbial dumper , but they are n't . |
| 18 | But a nation now so proud of its right to freedom of speech could not exempt British institutions from criticism . |
| 19 | As is well known , the Sunday Times case then went on to the European Court of Human Rights which held that the injunction violated Article 10 of the Convention and its right to freedom of expression . |
| 20 | In its case , although just viable , opinions over its right to life are fiercely contested . |
| 21 | In a reference to the ANC 's suspension of the armed struggle in August , Mandela said that this was done to further the peace process but that the movement had nevertheless not forfeited its right to self-defence . |
| 22 | In his summing up Lord Griffiths said that if a family had lost its right to priority treatment through intentional homelessness , the parents could not achieve the same result ‘ through the back door ’ by applying in the name of a dependent child . |
| 23 | The state court said the state 's ‘ unqualified interest in life ’ should prevail over their assertion that her right to privacy gave her the right to die gracefully . |
| 24 | Her right to maintenance was not lost by desertion . |
| 25 | The first was that on 11 March 1945 , two days after the Japanese coup , the Emperor Bao Dai proclaimed ‘ That from today the protectorate treaty with France is abrogated and that the country reassumes its rights to independence ’ . |
| 26 | The US airline Pan American , which had filed in January for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US insolvency code [ see p. 37953 ] , saw its prospects improve with an acceptance by the United Kingdom government ( confirmed on March 11 ) that it could in effect sell its rights to routes into London 's Heathrow airport to United Airlines for $290,000,000 ; United began its Heathrow services on April 5 . |
| 27 | Between three and five hundred people are believed to be in detention solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression , association or assembly or their right to leave the country . |
| 28 | The value of redundancy payments increases with a worker 's length of service and any break deprives workers of their rights to payments . |
| 29 | Those who have no or only an inadequate contributions record , and those who have exhausted their rights to Unemployment Benefit , can make a claim for means-tested Supplementary Benefit . |
| 30 | However , those who have exhausted their rights to Unemployment Benefit , in other words who have been unemployed for longer than one year , have to work for at least 13 weeks . |