Example sentences of "his own right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exploiting Boniface 's injudicious move , Edward sought to rekindle popular support for his Scottish campaign by a debate in parliament on his and the papal claims , in the course of which he employed no little historical research to justify his own rights , to refute the pope 's , and to persuade the public of all this . |
| 2 | We , we always , we were lucky we ha knew a man named he lived on and he was a butcher in his rights , his own rights you know , just like and , and but er , me dad 's brother or somebody knew him and , and he used to come and do it for us like , you know . |
| 3 | Leslie was himself a painter , and thus comments in his own right on his friend 's art , as here on a painting of Hampstead Heath : |
| 4 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 5 | What that also shows is that Ile De Nisky is a very useful performer in his own right and he should take today 's Foundation Stakes in his stride before having another crack at Nashwan in Newmarket 's Champion Stakes later this month . |
| 6 | Apart from his family riches , Midani is a wealthy man in his own right , with interests in property and leisure developments in the United Kingdom and Spain . |
| 7 | Paragraph 5 of the rule was directed not only at enforcement of a judgment in favour of a claimant who had obtained judgment in his favour but also at preventing , by means of the principle of res judicata , relitigation of the same case by a person who was properly represented by a claimant against whom judgment had been given dismissing the claim , whether that person tried to pursue his claim against a named defendant sued in his own right only , or against a named defendant sued both personally and as a representative of a class , or against a member of that class . |
| 8 | You have to sympathise , because all he wants to do is establish himself in his own right , in his own style and ultimately be recognised for that . |
| 9 | He became , in short , a story in his own right , the man who was said to have used his great power as Downing Street 's anonymous twice-daily briefer to belittle ministers whom Mrs Thatcher intended to dispose of . |
| 10 | He was always available to the press for an instant comment and was a politician in his own right . |
| 11 | Like so many Permanent Secretaries , Ken was a substantial politician in his own right and knew every byway of Whitehall , in particular how to process decisions through the government machine . |
| 12 | This was how I valued other people , too — how I valued Dana , as someone who did not need to be improved but allowed to flourish in his own right , with all the confusions and contradictions of which he was capable . |
| 13 | DROPPED by Labour for his extremist views , Nellist , 39 , stands a good chance of embarrassing the party by securing re-election in his own right . |
| 14 | Mr Major said he was immensely proud to have been elected Prime Minister in his own right . |
| 15 | Carloman , however had been born after Pepin had been crowned king in his own right and so considered that he held a superior claim to kingship . |
| 16 | He was by now running the family 's 700-acre holding in his own right , and farming right up to the power station boundary . |
| 17 | One of the reasons for Tip 's success as a caddie is that he was a very successful golfer in his own right ; he was a true three-handicapper because he earned his three on some of the world 's most formidable links . |
| 18 | He is a talent honed through years of playing at clubs , in the past sharing the bill with all-time greats such as Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee , Alexis Korner and Rory Gallagher , but emerging in his own right . |
| 19 | He was obviously going to be a Sheik in his own right , and it would seem that he knew it . |
| 20 | Like his illustrious predecessor , Bob was a powerful raider in his own right — he finished his first season as second-highest Palace scorer to the great Albert Dawes — and he was a supplier of plentiful openings to his colleagues . |
| 21 | In 1724 , David Muir , Chamberlain to the Earl of Eglinton and a merchant in his own right , presented the Society with a silver arrow as the winner 's trophy for the papingo shoot and proceeded to win it himself in the first year . |
| 22 | The financial needs of the family , the demands of a career and the needs of a father in his own right directly affect his availability to his children and have an indirect effect through the support he can offer his partner . |
| 23 | With time and proper encouragement he will become a man in his own right , determining his own direction , and relatively unaffected by trying to secure the approval and attention of his parents . |
| 24 | It was the first place he had come to in his own right , with something to give . |
| 25 | You did n't have to go through him to get to someone who counted : he counted in his own right . |
| 26 | An artist in his own right , he painted pictures onto canvas , and these were then sewn . |
| 27 | An ingenious inventor in his own right , Hermes was an alchemist by trade . |
| 28 | Now he rules at Downing Street in his own right . |
| 29 | FIRST Phil Tufnell was John Emburey 's pupil , then his county rival before emerging as a Test star in his own right during his older colleague 's Test ban for joining the rebel tour to South Africa . |
| 30 | How could a Prime Minister who gave voice to such sentiments be regarded as a political figure in his own right ? |