Example sentences of "[art] rights of " in BNC.

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1 Increased official emphasis on speedy investigation and sentencing in death penalty cases is likely to have further undermined the rights of defendants to a fair trial .
2 A high point in the novel is the altercation and huff with Gavin and his mates which precedes this : about the long holidays teachers get , or do n't get , about the homework they withhold , and about the rights of weans — children — and the rights of parents .
3 A high point in the novel is the altercation and huff with Gavin and his mates which precedes this : about the long holidays teachers get , or do n't get , about the homework they withhold , and about the rights of weans — children — and the rights of parents .
4 In the North , protestant loyalists accuse catholic nationalists of not accepting the rights of the majority in the statelet to govern as it sees fit .
5 With this religious overtone in Northern Ireland , the belief in majority dominance has justified ignoring the rights of the catholic — nationalist minority within the Ulster statelet .
6 The implementation of liberty can stretch to keeping places of recreation closed on Sundays , upholding the rights of preachers to speak in public places even if it causes an affray , and opposing the development of catholic schools because their teachers do not communicate the Bible without priestly mediation .
7 In a letter to the Irish premier in 1947 , while an extensive health bill was going through parliament , the bishops ‘ pointed out that to claim such powers for the public authority , without qualification , is entirely and directly contrary to Catholic teaching on the rights of the family , the Church in education , the rights of the medical profession and voluntary institutions ’ ( Irish Independent , 12 Apr. 1951 , quoted Whyte 1980 : 143 ) .
8 In a letter to the Irish premier in 1947 , while an extensive health bill was going through parliament , the bishops ‘ pointed out that to claim such powers for the public authority , without qualification , is entirely and directly contrary to Catholic teaching on the rights of the family , the Church in education , the rights of the medical profession and voluntary institutions ’ ( Irish Independent , 12 Apr. 1951 , quoted Whyte 1980 : 143 ) .
9 It suggested that second marriages would substantially infringe the rights of inheritance of the members of the first family .
10 They were failing to recognize or were positively discounting the rights of those dissenting from their particular views of public order , and subjecting that dissent to the full coercion of the state .
11 They were no longer debating the rights of man at a Club for Equality and Reform .
12 He reached out for something outside his prison and found The Rights of Man , he concentrated on passages he knew well and summoned them up word for word .
13 Coincidently , the report was published not long after the Government 's announcement of its intention to introduce commonhold legislation ( see Information Circular , August 1991 ) , which is aimed at strengthening the rights of existing leaseholders .
14 Lord Donaldson 's formula for settling the rights of audience controversy was viewed as an adept political move by some delegates .
15 Among the winners : a society of Japanese housewives which distributes environmentally sound products ; an Ethiopian agronomist who has built up a seed bank of plants for use in time of drought , and Survival International , which campaigns for the rights of tribal peoples .
16 The rights of union membership would also be guaranteed .
17 All his adult life , Dignam had been one of the most involved defenders of the rights of actors .
18 Hughie Smith , president of the National Gypsy Council , a body set up to fight for the rights of gypsies , said : ‘ The point is that York does have hundreds of acres of land .
19 The proposed ‘ remedies ’ included : a multi-party political system ; a government answerable to an elected parliament , not to one political party ; use of referenda as a form of direct democracy ; autonomous local governments ; the creation of the office of state president ; an independent judiciary ; an end to censorship ; a supreme auditing office to inspect state finances ; constitutional guarantees to defend the rights of ethnic and religious minorities ; and a welfare state , founded on a market-based economy .
20 The faculty also opposed the move to extend the rights of audience to suitably qualified solicitors , ‘ not to protect a monopoly ’ , but because it felt the administration of justice might suffer .
21 Commenting on the grant , Alex Wright of the Commission said , ‘ We welcome this grant and we hope it will assist Lancashire County Council in opening up the rights of way network by dealing with several major problems and paths that need modifications . ’
22 It is not accidental that the assertion of ‘ the rights of man ’ has been characteristic of revolutionary regimes which aspired to interfere with and overturn the systems of law and society of their neighbours ; and there could be no more striking evidence of the antagonism of Soviet Russia to Trotskyism than that ‘ human rights ’ have to be forced down its throat at Helsinki or Belgrade like spoonfuls of brimstone .
23 If there is no written agreement on the matter , all members of the band share equally in the rights of the name .
24 What was unpredictable about the protest was a devastatingly subversive counter protest by a small group who said they were present ‘ on behalf of the acolytes of Our Lady of Ballinspittle ’ and who said they wanted to ‘ protect the rights of blasphemers and heretics and Nobel prize-winning great novelists ’ .
25 It is now commonplace to say that the Thatcher governments have had to be highly interventionist in order to extend the market , increase the rights of consumers , and reduce producer power .
26 The net outcome of his days in office were that about two hundred of the cases which were brought to his attention were treated with regard for human dignity , but the law affecting the rights of dependants and visitors was not changed ( except for one fairly minor aspect : in 1974 the sexually discriminatory ‘ Husbands Rule ’ was changed to allow women born or settled in Britain to have their foreign husbands here with them ) .
27 It was an aggressive type that had even reached Kingsmarkham , a type that talked pacifism and the rights of man and brotherly love without the energy or courage to do anything that might bring these desirable conditions nearer .
28 A MAJOR victory has been won in the long-running battle to protect the rights of approximately 13 million members of company pension schemes .
29 Others have been ideological in other ways , on behalf of the French Revolution and the Rights of Man , or the power of reactionary princes in the age of Metternich .
30 Moreover , in a clear indication of the growing influence of the European Parliament , Mr Delors assured MEPs yesterday that the commission would bring forward three important measures to improve the rights of Europe 's workers .
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