Example sentences of "[vb past] the right to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Bill of Rights excluded the right to self-determination , the right to have elected executive and legislative councils , and the right of foreigners to fight deportation [ see below ] . |
| 2 | At the official unification festivities in Hamburg Rita Süssmuth , the President of the Bundestag ( lower house of parliament ) , defended the right to asylum which she said Germans should appreciate as fundamentally important because of their experience under the Nazis . |
| 3 | In August 1991 a US district judge had ruled that the statute violated the right to abortion guaranteed by Roe v. Wade . |
| 4 | Protection of citizens under the law included the right to defence counsel and legal aid , and to the principle of habeas corpus in the case of illegal imprisonment or detention . |
| 5 | The Catholic Church had enormous secular ( as well as spiritual ) power , since it possessed the right to income from vast expanses of land . |
| 6 | The latter gave the right to self-government and self-taxation to all living within the town walls or boundary , leaving the surrounding rural area under the control of the aristocracy . |
| 7 | Legislators who supported the right to abortion immediately took steps to negate the effects of the Rust v. Sullivan ruling . |
| 8 | The evidence of history , not to mention the physical evidence of those land deeds , suggested a subject of legitimate journalistic inquiry : who legally as well as morally had the right to ownership of the property ? |
| 9 | It was not just the veto which caused a crisis of confidence : every member had the right to blackball an applicant . |
| 10 | All Armenians living abroad had the right to citizenship . |
| 11 | Mr Shevardnadze told members of the European Parliament that while the German people had the right to self-determination there would have to be ‘ political , legal and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states and to peace in Europe ’ . |
| 12 | In Bailiffs of Dunwich v. Sterry , the plaintiffs had the right to wrecks at Dunwich and the defendant took a cask of whisky from a wreck before the plaintiffs could get it . |
| 13 | In UN parlance the former classification entailed the right to self-determination , while the latter generally did not . |