Example sentences of "the [det] rights " in BNC.
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| 1 | The net result of a system which mixed young and old , debtors and criminals , men and women , first offenders and old lags indiscriminately was , inevitably , that prisoners were exploited , brutalized and deprived of even the few rights that the law allowed them . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the housing benefit has removed one of the few rights of protest left to the poor tenant in terrible housing conditions — arrears . |
| 3 | Unhappily now we are older it has all disappeared , and we must fight again just to retain the few rights we still have , such as state pensions and what is left of the health service . |
| 4 | Residents of these homes should have the same rights to choice of general practitioner and to NHS care as any other person . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | We will progressively reduce British Gas ' monopoly of the retail gas market , to give small users the same rights as big firms . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There is no special law allowing A , B , and C to meet together in the open air or elsewhere for a lawful purpose , but the right of A to go where he pleases so that he does not commit a trespass , and to say what he likes to B so that his talk is not libellous or seditious , the right of B to do the like , and the existence of the same rights of C , D , E , and F and so on ad infinitum , lead to the consequence that A , B , C , D and a thousand or ten thousand other persons , may ( as a general rule ) meet together in any place where otherwise they each have a right to be for a lawful purpose and in a lawful manner . |
| 13 | Another important implication of behavioural rights such as these , is that if you believe in your own rights then , to be consistent , you must also believe that other people enjoy the same rights . |
| 14 | The EC rules give EC companies the same rights as individuals . |
| 15 | 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 ) |
| 16 | It is essential that Londoners have the same rights of access to acute health care as their provincial counterparts . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ These people have the same rights as any private citizen but the demonstrations by Fr. |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This is the point where a number of difficult areas converge : society 's ambivalence about sexuality and people with learning difficulties ; a tradition of segregation ; a lingering concern about eugenics ; a shameful history of ( enforced ) sterilisation ; a proper concern about vulnerable children ; and their right to due protection from neglect and abuse — set against an increasing recognition that people with learning difficulties should enjoy the same rights to an ordinary life in our society as anyone else , including the rights to be parents . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Transport secretary , John MacGregor , agreed with Mr Sproat 's view that ‘ all persons — pensioners , pensioners ’ dependents , current employees or former employees of BR — who currently enjoy concessionary travel with BR should in the future enjoy the same rights of concessionary travel on all public railway services in the UK , whether they are run by residual BR or by any new private sector company ’ . |
| 25 | Local authorities are also facing an increasing number of fines and compensation orders placed on them by magistrates when children in their care cause damage in the community , even though they can not exercise the same rights of control as parents . |
| 26 | This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | Subject to the same rights of objection , ‘ any person interested in a judicial proceeding ’ may effect service directly through the judicial officers , officials or other competent persons of the State of destination . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |