Example sentences of "rights [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own father , Charles the Cheesemonger , was neither a cardmaker nor a pauper , and we can hardly suppose that any loss of common rights through enclosures had had any direct impact upon his family as it had upon so many others . |
| 2 | Carter , who was visiting China in a private capacity , also raised the subject of human rights during talks with Li Peng and Jiang Zemin . |
| 3 | Among the best early examples of how hero and heroine should dance pas de deux are those in Giselle and La Sylphide where both have equal rights as dancers . |
| 4 | In short Locke wants to drive a wedge between our rights as private individuals and our rights as members of a civil society . |
| 5 | Deprived of our rights as parents to make a rational decision because we did n't get the facts . |
| 6 | who wanted to live together , and wanted to have a child , but they wanted to know whether they would have equal rights as parents |
| 7 | The foundation of a company 's power is its control over property , and the claim of the members to be entitled to exercise that power or to delegate it to representatives rests on their rights as owners . |
| 8 | Towards the end of the 1870s they did gradually become more outspoken in pressing the case for tariff protection and against any legislation which would interfere with their rights as employers . |
| 9 | Giving government corruption and the violation of human rights as reasons for his decision , Njoroge said that he had also left the ruling Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) and was joining the opposition Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) . |
| 10 | In many countries the stated role of the state archive is to record the history of the state , and to give members of the public access to information necessary for them to undertake their responsibilities , duties and rights as citizens . |
| 11 | Neither the last Capetians nor Philip VI wished to deprive the English kings of their French fief , but they intended to maintain their rights as overlords and in particular to hear appeals from the duchy in their own court . |
| 12 | We failed to offer proposals that could have been equally appealing but more constructive — such as more control over lifetime contributions to pension funds , greater stakes in enterprises through measures like employee share plans , more extensive rights as employees . |
| 13 | Even of cases which do come to court , a very great many are not concerned with crimes at all but rather with people 's rights as employees , consumers , householders and members of local communities . |
| 14 | Erm modern theorists of human rights just start from the position that human rights are of course self evidently inherent in each individual , I 'm thinking for example of erm Nosette In the tradition of , of natural , in the natural law tradition which Locke erm erm shares erm there is a basic position which runs throughout them all and that includes incidentally even Hobbes to the effect that erm we do n't just have rights as individuals , we have rights for a very particular reason . |
| 15 | The Court of Session action is being raised by the lord provost of Edinburgh , Norman Irons , and the Sheriff-Principal of Lothian and Borders , Gordon Nicholson , in an attempt to reassert their rights as co-trustees of the Torrie Collection . |
| 16 | the ownership of any selling or marketing rights for services or computer software that result from the provision of the system for OUP . |
| 17 | Similarly , the buyer will wish to know whether there are rights for services to pass over neighbouring land . |
| 18 | It is this lack in the Rules of Lautro of any such rights for persons affected which forms the general basis of the applicant 's complaint in these proceedings . |
| 19 | New rights for parents |
| 20 | And , just as with academic freedom for academic staff , we can distinguish negative and positive rights for students . |
| 21 | The question is whether something approaching a Bill of Rights for students would not be worthwhile , spelling out the academic freedoms which all students have the right to expect . |
| 22 | The main issues outstanding were : ( i ) the reorganization of the national finances and the respective allocations to Flanders and Wallonia ; ( ii ) voting rights for French-speakers living in the Flemish suburbs around Brussels ; ( iii ) the reorganization of agricultural support mechanisms along regional lines ; and ( iv ) the allocation of seats to the European Parliament . |
| 23 | MORE RIGHTS FOR EX-PATIENTS , MORE DUTIES FOR STAFF |
| 24 | Is he not still missing the real point if he really wants to do something radical to promote opportunities for people at work , and create rights for citizens at work to ownership and participation in decision-making at the place of work ? |
| 25 | Human rights for writers : . |
| 26 | Most of all , he was a campaigner for human rights for writers all over the world . |
| 27 | We will introduce rights for customers of all financial institutions , ensuring they are fully informed when changes are made which do or might affect them . |
| 28 | Thus , while all three publishers will be publishing different novelisation titles based on the series , the publication rights for annuals and calendars ( which are more akin to merchandise than books ) went to BBC Enterprises . |
| 29 | No extra rights for shareholders |
| 30 | But the bill sets out a tight framework which will limit the judges ' scope for blocking extra advocacy rights for solicitors . |