Example sentences of "a [adj] rights [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shareholders are offered a one-for-three rights issue at 110p to raise £152million , but Corporate Partners will take up any shares not subscribed to . |
| 2 | Avesco Plc yesterday announced plans to demerge its VideoLogic Ltd multimedia subsidiary , which has joint venture agreements with IBM Corp : it says that Videologic 's turnover for the year that ends today will be not less than £10.4m , which is an increase of 44% over last year : Avesco also plans to raise £12.1m net of expenses in a one-for-three rights issue at 63 pence ; the news put 12 pence on the share price , which reached 97p . |
| 3 | THE advertising and marketing services group , Gold Greenlees Trott , is calling on shareholders for £14.7 million in a one-for-three rights issue aimed at providing elbow-room for more acquisitions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Kingfisher is calling on shareholders for as much as £313 million in a two-part rights issue to part finance the deal . |
| 6 | The deal is being financed by a one-for-seven rights issue to raise £5m . |
| 7 | Kingfisher is raising £155 million from the first call of 225p a share on a one-for-seven rights issue , with another 225p payable at the company 's discretion . |
| 8 | It was the Dublin Wolfe Tone Society which suggested a civil rights campaign . |
| 9 | Beginning in the 50s , we became active in a pre-civil rights movement and were later known as a civil rights school . |
| 10 | It follows a campaign by a civil rights activist called John Bugg . |
| 11 | A civil rights campaigner dressed as a wrestler in a cape ? |
| 12 | On Nov. 6 , 1989 , after 17 years of debate , Massachusetts became the second state to pass a civil rights law for homosexuals . |
| 13 | A civil rights bill went before Congress ; it was still under debate when Kennedy was assassinated that November . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In an effort to retrieve the lost ground the Democratic majority within Congress approved a civil rights bill in 1990 which was vetoed by Bush [ see p. 37769 ] . |
| 16 | Danforth 's failure to construct a compromise , however , fuelled Democrat charges that the President was interested not in achieving a civil rights bill based upon consensus , but in creating a potent campaign issue — the concept of quotas — for the 1992 elections . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | When he did he usually denied that the complaints were justified — even when a civil rights officer ( myself ) was physically thrown out of Hastings Street [ RUC ] Station ! |
| 19 | In something of an afterthought the Irish News of 15 August 1966 recorded that ‘ a discussion took place on the desirability of holding a convention on civil rights for the purpose of drawing up a civil rights chart ’ . |
| 20 | the development of a civil rights movement as an intrinsic but distinct element in the social and political opposition to the regime ; |
| 21 | It was agreed that another meeting should be called to launch a civil rights body and this took place on 29 January 1967 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 24 | The story is of a civil rights leader who was born 25 years ago and it 's a day in his life . |
| 25 | Police yesterday disarmed a parcel bomb at a black human rights office in Florida , the latest in a rash of mail bombings in the South that have killed a judge and a civil rights lawyer . |
| 26 | On May 9 Albie Sachs , a civil rights lawyer and member of the ANC legal and constitutional affairs committee ( who returned to South Africa on May 4 after 24 years in exile — see also p. 36073 ) , revealed that he had helped to draw up a 1985 code of conduct outlawing torture , but acknowledged that detention camps still existed . |
| 27 | Gitobu Imanyara , a civil rights lawyer and editor of the Nairobi Law Monthly , was charged with sedition on March 5 , and was refused bail . |
| 28 | Gitobu Imanyara , a civil rights lawyer and editor of the Nairobi Law Monthly , who had been arrested and charged with sedition on March 5 over an article alleging tribal favouritism [ see pp. 38088-89 ] , was again refused bail by the High Court on May 9 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |