Example sentences of "the same rights [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a husband and wife are the adopters they have the same rights as against one another , and as against the adopted child , as if they were the child 's natural father and mother . |
| 2 | By an Act of 1934 an adopted child acquires the same rights as a natural child to benefits under what was then the Workmen 's Compensation Act 1925 ( this Act is now replaced by the Social Security Act 1975 ) . |
| 3 | We will progressively reduce British Gas ' monopoly of the retail gas market , to give small users the same rights as big firms . |
| 4 | I think the Arabs have the same rights as the Jews and I think it is a tragedy of history that a people who are refugees make new refugees . |
| 5 | I think the Arabs have the same rights as the Jews and I think it is a tragedy of history that a people who are refugees make new refugees . |
| 6 | The EC rules give EC companies the same rights as individuals . |
| 7 | A collective agreement ( i.e. with one or more trades unions ) effectively giving the same rights as in one or other of the previous two options to the members of those trades unions ( but not , it would seem , to all employees ) |
| 8 | ‘ These people have the same rights as any private citizen but the demonstrations by Fr. |
| 9 | This group 's main interests are that privatisation should be speeded up and that privatised companies should have the same rights as state-owned rivals . |
| 10 | By the end of the period of imperial expansion , in the middle of the twentieth century , it was widely believed that everyone in the world should be a citizen of an independent and sovereign state and should have the same rights as all the other citizens in the state , but in 1500 very few people would have understood such a notion . |
| 11 | Even if their child stays away from school parents are still urged to seek a refund as the council believes children should have the same rights as other rail users . |
| 12 | Exchange control was introduced in 1930 and has been in force ever since , but subject to the provisions of exchange control it was a basic tenet of pre-communist Hungarian law that foreigners had the same rights as Hungarians in all respects ( but for some professions and performing public functions Hungarian citizenship was necessary ) . |
| 13 | ‘ It is well established that in certain cases a trading corporation may bring a suit in respect of an imputation on its trading reputation , and I see no reason why a non-trading corporation should not have the same rights as respects imputations on the conduct by it of its activities . |
| 14 | There was probably no ( easy ) alternative to the use of temporary workers ; and if they were to be employed , at least such workers should otherwise have the same rights as regular workers . |
| 15 | The opinion comes down on widowers having the same rights as widows , although this would only apply to service from the date of the forthcoming judgment . |
| 16 | May we have an early debate on the Government 's determination to prevent part-timers from having the same rights as people who work full time ? |
| 17 | ‘ We have been progress of the Great Britain Education Bill with a view to ensuring that , as far as possible , parents of children with special educational needs in Northern Ireland enjoy the same rights as those in England and Wales . ’ |
| 18 | I HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS YOU ! |
| 19 | For the purposes of the Code , " securities " excludes loan stock or loan notes unless such stock or notes carry substantially the same rights as any other securities of the offeror in issue or conversion or subscription rights into any such securities or equity share capital of the offeror . |
| 20 | A High Court judge has ruled that they do n't have the same rights as traditional gypsies . |
| 21 | ‘ Our commitment to adopt the Social Charter should remain a priority objective so that employees in our country can achieve the same rights and opportunities as their Community counterparts . ’ |
| 22 | A person who is mentally handicapped is just as much a member of society as anyone else and , like anyone who possesses a disability or impairment , is entitled not only to the same rights and services as society as a whole , but also to special needs and facilities which Britain , as a relatively affluent nation , should be able to provide for the care of disadvantaged people . |
| 23 | As long as work in the home ( 'housework' ) is not formally remunerated , women reach old age without the same rights and entitlements as those in paid employment . |
| 24 | Many professionals find it difficult to accede , in practice , to the values and philosophy of normalisation — that people with learning difficulties should be treated as equal citizens , with the same rights and access to valued social roles as everyone else . |
| 25 | Joyce added that he had been informed at Galway , ‘ where I was stationed ’ , that he possessed the same rights and privileges as if ‘ of natural British birth ’ . |
| 26 | If this is to labour the obvious , it is because the formulation quoted above serves to anticipate the conclusion that a statute should attach to non-owners the same rights and liabilities . |
| 27 | We had the same rights and opportunities as the Americans . |
| 28 | The typical company — one limited by shares — must issue some shares , and the initial presumption of the law is that all shares confer the same rights and impose the same liabilities . |
| 29 | In my own particular section of the clothing and textiles the union fought long and hard to gain the same rights and conditions for temporary workers , and so leading to permanent employment in most cases . |
| 30 | That regardless of background , education , race , sex , occupation or age every single trade unionist is an individual member with the same rights and responsibilities as his or her colleagues . |