Example sentences of "a [adj] rights [noun] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | This set up a Civil Rights Commission empowered to assist blacks to exercise their right to vote . |
| 32 | Labour will set up a Human Rights Division in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , and require all Britain 's diplomatic posts abroad to appoint an officer to monitor human rights . |
| 33 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |
| 34 | WACC-AR should set up , and where necessary support , networks that will facilitate the exchange of information and experience between Christian communicators on the continent on human rights and evolving a human rights culture in Africa : |
| 35 | Family planning Salvadorean fashion has become so notorious as to be classified as a human rights issue . |
| 36 | PRAGUE ( Reuter ) — Czechoslovak authorities have released a human rights activist , Miroslav Kusy , who was held on charges of subversion . |
| 37 | It was reported on March 22 that Kim Dae Jung , the PPD leader , had announced a merger with a dissident group led by Mrs Lee Woo Jung , a human rights activist , |
| 38 | On March 13 it was announced that a human rights unit had been created within in the Foreign , Justice and Interior Ministries " with responsibility for following up international organizations ' activities in the sphere of human rights " ; this followed a report released by Amnesty International on March 3 , which had alleged the routine use of torture . |
| 39 | The producers worked closely with an AI researcher and concentrated on the work of Bruce Harris , a human rights worker in Guatemala . |
| 40 | Candido Grzybowski is a human rights worker with the Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Analysis in Rio . |
| 41 | COPREFA later retracted this statement , recognized she was a human rights worker and decided she had been caught in the cross-fire when she died . |
| 42 | 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 ) . |
| 43 | We have now set up a Human Rights Committee , properly structured and managed , with a defined budget . |
| 44 | The issue had already had a major impact during the election campaign , when Wolfgang Schnur , a human rights lawyer in Rostock and the leader of Democratic Awakening , resigned his post on March 14 after admitting that he had worked for the Stasi . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | I recognise that dealing effectively and sensitively with rape as a human rights violation requires careful treatment and consideration . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Amnesty called on the government ( which had recently set up a human rights task force and an inquiry into alleged atrocities ) to admit the extent of abuses in the past , including its own role , in order to clear the atmosphere for a fresh approach on human rights observance . |
| 49 | In January 1990 a Human Rights League was set up , basing itself on the League for Human Rights established in 1922 and banned by the Nazis in 1933 . |
| 50 | 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 . ’ |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | A human rights tribunal should be established to investigate " mass and flagrant " human rights violations and victims of so-called " ethnic cleansing " should have the right to return under international supervision . |
| 54 | Three leading opposition figures were prevented from leaving Kenya in the first week of July to attend a human rights conference in London . |
| 55 | Delegates including Western human rights activists and diplomats attended a human rights conference in Tehran on Sept. 9-12 , which was described by some commentators as an indication of the Iranian government 's desire to end its international isolation . |
| 56 | A HUMAN RIGHTS DISASTER |
| 57 | The human rights organization Africa Watch published a report on March 18 which described Sudan as " a human rights disaster " . |
| 58 | Similarly , the idea that a human rights concert should be held in the very stadium in Santiago where Allende 's officers rounded up thousands of Chileans in 1973 , prior to committing gross violations , stretches the powers of credulity . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | A human rights report published by the US State Department in late January 1991 criticized the Chinese government 's record , and estimated that 1,000 people had been sentenced to prison or re-education since the Tiananmen Square crackdown . |