Example sentences of "right [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remained silent when the government decided to extend the period of contribution required for a full state pension , thereby calling into question the right to retire at 60 , introduced by the Socialists . |
| 2 | PP : You had every right to retire if you wanted to , but of course we also had the right to try and persuade you not to . |
| 3 | There is no right to retire from a partnership otherwise than by mutual agreement or unilaterally by effecting a dissolution . |
| 4 | Most crucially , it would have the right to issue an Estonian currency , probably named after the kron which served during the 20 years of independence between the wars . |
| 5 | They often came into conflict with the local Transport Committees , formed from the local branches of the main transport unions , who correctly maintained that they alone had the right to issue permits for the movement of essential items which would otherwise have been held up in the dispute . |
| 6 | In November , he was given ‘ emergency powers ’ , which gave him the right to issue legally binding decrees and appoint people to any government post without reference to the Supreme Russian Soviet . |
| 7 | Political freedoms were not abolished and parliament ( the Supreme Soviet ) and president both had the right to issue laws . |
| 8 | The parent has the right to issue convertible redeemable preference shares of its own in substitution for the bonds should it wish to do so . |
| 9 | It would be surprising , Mr. Beloff submitted , if Parliament had given the Bank of England the right to issue notices calling for the immediate production of documents which ipso facto overrode court orders , and constitutionally anomalous to allow an executive order to override a judicial order , since it would deny the court an opportunity to balance competing interests ; the court should be slow to conclude that it was excluded from this arena . |
| 10 | By this I mean that the commands to do or to abstain proceed from persons who no matter whether this is logical or reasonable or justifiable by any objective criterion — are believed to be persons who have the moral right to issue them : so that , correlatively , those to whom the commands are addressed feel a moral duty to obey them . |
| 11 | In the 1989 Budget , the right to issue sterling commercial paper was extended to unlisted governments , overseas companies and certain overseas authorities ; also to banks , building societies and insurance companies . |
| 12 | When a country surrenders its right to issue its own coinage , and does so irrevocably , it loses its sovereignty and thus the basis of its existence as a separate nation state . |
| 13 | The replacement of national currencies with a single European currency would deprive these countries ' respective monetary authorities of the right to issue money and with it the revenues which currently accrue to their governments through monetary creation while they would not be able to offset this loss through the use of other taxes . |
| 14 | Local councils now have the right to issue £10 fixed penalty tickets to people caught dropping litter , and to charge supermarkets for the return of abandoned shopping trolleys , of which 140,000 are said to disappear each year . |
| 15 | Legislation has largely restricted the right to distrain goods found upon the premises but not belonging to the tenant . |
| 16 | and the right to strip the dead of the opposing forces on the battlefield . |
| 17 | Never mind the opinions or the colour or the creed of the marchers , they have no God-given right to disrupt the life of a city . |
| 18 | Women who have no objection to abortion in principle feel that it is entirely within their right to abort babies who have been diagnosed as being mentally handicapped ; certainly at present there are few legal restraints , but there are practical as well as moral problems involved . |
| 19 | Can the right to enforce a contract , with its correlative duty to perform it , be regarded as one of these constitutional guarantees ? |
| 20 | Each of the other fundamental rights reveals an aspect of the value of private autonomy , whereas , in contrast , a right to enforce a contract involves an assertion of the justice of commandeering state power to curtail economic liberty and restrict autonomy . |
| 21 | In a more formal way we can state that fundamental rights which protect individual autonomy comprise immunities against state interference whereas the right to enforce a contract asserts a claim to harness state power to control the actions of another . |
| 22 | Again , therefore , we conclude that the right to enforce a contract can not be derived from the liberal principle of respect for individual autonomy . |
| 23 | Where restrictive covenants and rights of way appear to have lapsed and extensive investigations fail to locate any individual able to enforce or enjoy the benefit from such rights , it is possible to take out indemnity insurance against the remote possibility that anyone emerges with the legal right to enforce the covenant or right of way . |
| 24 | This was because it amounted to a transfer back to X of property in the car ( because Y 's cheque had not been met ) in return for X waiving any right to enforce payment from Y. At the time of the repossession , X was unaware of Y's sale to Z and thus by repossessing the car with Y 's acquiescence , X obtained ownership of it by virtue of section 25(1) of the 1893 Act ( i.e. section 24 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ) . |
| 25 | By s.5(2) : [ w ] here property is subject to a trust , the persons to whom it belongs shall be regarded as including any person having a right to enforce the trust , and an intention to defeat the trust shall be regarded accordingly as an intention to deprive of the property any person having that right . |
| 26 | 9.3 Covenants relating to adjoining Premises Nothing contained in or implied by this Lease shall give the Tenant the benefit of or the right to enforce or to prevent the release or modification of any covenant agreement or condition entered into by any tenant of the Landlord in respect of any property not comprised in this Lease Tenants have very limited rights to enforce covenants against each other . |
| 27 | In Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1931 ) 15 TC 693 , it was held that if the foreign law governing the non-resident trust vested the property in the trustees with the beneficiary taking no interest in the trust property as such but only having the right to enforce the performance of the trust in equity then , contrary to the decision in Archer-Shee v Baker , the taxpayer would not receive income from the actual assets held by the trust but would receive income from a foreign possession . |
| 28 | At first it appeared a good development for the island — the Germans promised to look after poor patients with tuberculosis and , in return , were given many favourable concessions such as duty-free importation of equipment and the right to expropriate land . |
| 29 | Women have to claim their right to be angry , but men have to claim their right to weep and show fear if the balance is to change . |
| 30 | These junior institutions are the preparatory schools of the prisons , not because they train criminals , but because they train youngsters to cope with a regime which denies tenderness , warmth and the right to weep with and for your own pain . |