Example sentences of "of a right " in BNC.
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| 1 | The business of compulsion is not something theoretical or peripheral ; it is of the essence of a right , because there is no point in declaring a right to what everyone is going to have anyhow . |
| 2 | This business of compulsion is not something theoretical or peripheral ; it is of the essence of a right , because there is no point in declaring a right to what everyone is going to have anyhow . |
| 3 | The society implicit in any statement of a right is not , in the context of the United Nations , a national society . |
| 4 | This is required by law a ) to maintain the private status of the ground , b ) to preserve the Vicar 's freehold rights of ownership ( and those of his successors ) and c ) to prevent the creation of a Right of Way through the grounds . |
| 5 | They have even more of a right to know if they are not being told at home . |
| 6 | In the last few years the courts have contrived in effect to extend the substance of a right of occupation to a mistress who has lived on an originally permanent basis with a man , but who has now lost her partner either through death or as a result of some form of desertion . |
| 7 | The behaviour alleged under – above would amount to a matrimonial offence , while the circumstances covered by amount to the first recognition in England of a right of divorce by mutual consent . |
| 8 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
| 9 | The same may also be said of the existence of a right of appeal . |
| 10 | The development of a right of parents and pupils to see the pupil 's personal school record has not been a specifically education issue but has arisen as part of the wider campaign for access to personal records . |
| 11 | A general shift of attitude by teachers towards openness arose , at least in part , from their arguments in support of a right to see reports and references on the teachers themselves . |
| 12 | This is fundamentally better than depriving the child of a right to live . |
| 13 | There are , therefore , three kinds of consent that do not impose obligations on the agent : first , where his personal situation is not affected by the consent ; second , where his personal situation is favourably affected , for the consent is a condition of his possession of a right or of some other benefit ; third , where his personal situation is adversely affected , but by waiving a right rather than by undertaking an obligation . |
| 14 | The Tribunal and the Commissioner Apart from the administrative safeguards referred to above , the Act introduces a remedy by way of a right of complaint to a quasi-judicial Tribunal . |
| 15 | Clearly , the basis of paternalism — that decisions concerning a particular person 's fate are better made for him than by him , because others wiser than he are more keenly aware of his best interests than he can be — conflicts with the notion of a right to self-determination , whereby a person is deemed entitled to make his own decisions concerning himself , within tolerable limits , free from the interference of others . |
| 16 | If , however , the landlord has absolute discretion to grant consent to the tenant 's exercise of a right , the reimbursement of the landlord 's costs is not part of the consideration for the landlord 's supply under the lease or licence to the tenant . |
| 17 | This new legislation would create , in particular : a right for users of public services to restrain unlawful industrial action ; the provision of a right for union members to obtain more information on their unions ' financial affairs , including union leaders ' salaries ; protection against the use of what are called ‘ check-off ’ arrangements under which subscriptions to the union are deducted from the workers ' pay ; and greater freedom for people to join the union of their choice . |
| 18 | They thought in terms of a right or wrong time , rather than long or short duration . |
| 19 | First , is it not the case that the whole idea of a right is inextricably linked with the liberal ( or , as Dignan calls it , gesellschaft ) model of society ? |
| 20 | On the one hand there is the ‘ will theory ’ , which regards the distinctive feature of a right as lying in the fact that it offers a ‘ legally protected choice ’ ( Hart , 1973 ) , giving the right-holder the power to exact compliance , or not . |
| 21 | Any such claim would therefore have to be framed in terms of the interest theory ; yet , as even the advocates of such an approach admit ( Campbell , 1985 , p. 20 ) this involves open-ended and controversial issues as to which interests deserve protection , and some have argued that it leads to a disintegration of any distinctive or effective notion of a right ( Simmonds , 1985 ) . |
| 22 | STRATEGIES FOR THE REALISATION OF A RIGHT TO EQUAL CONCERN AND RESPECT |
| 23 | He was surely right to caution that the declaration of a right by a court is perhaps best viewed as the beginning of a political process in which power relationships loom large and immediate . |
| 24 | The concepts of a right and a liberty ( as opposed to freedom generally ) probably originated however , in systems of juridical law , and it is in legal systems that they have their most subtle and interesting applications and most thorough and detailed elaborations . |
| 25 | But if talk of a right were insisted upon it would be seen as no more than as a flourish of personification to emphasise that the trustee had legal obligations towards the grave . |
| 26 | We 're not in favour of a right to roam on open country — if you have this it 'll override other rights . |
| 27 | Segalman and Marsland were struck by the fact that the Swiss appear to have ‘ no concept of a right to state support ’ . |
| 28 | The Zemsky sobor , whose role in decision-making had never approached the status of a right , disappeared altogether . |
| 29 | In one case an immigrant who was present in Britain was denied judicial review of a decision not to give him leave to enter the country because of the existence of a right of appeal which could only be exercised if the immigrant left Britain . |
| 30 | In interpreting ns.20A , the House Committee Report stated that : ‘ the codification of a right of action for contemporaneous traders is specifically intended to overturn court cases which have precluded recovery where plaintiffs where the defendant 's violation is premised upon the misappropriation theory . ’ |