Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] rights [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I HAVE just received the photocopies of personal interventions , including yours , to the authority of Zaire , from the President of Human Rights in Zaire . |
| 2 | Tsvolas on Jan. 17 was sentenced to 2@1/2 years in prison and loss of civil rights for three years , for breach of trust in connection with the debt write-off for Kalkanis . |
| 3 | Again there will be no loss of existing rights of audience ; solicitors will be recognized as having competence to be advocates in the lower courts . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His discussions with the Pope led to Charles ' confirmation of papal rights over the Exarchate of Ravenna , from Ferrara and Commachio in the north , to Osimo in the south . |
| 6 | Study of civil rights in Russia before 1917 |
| 7 | The American Civil Liberties Union called this action " the worst single wholesale violation of civil rights of American citizens in our history . " |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The massive violation of human rights around the world — some 90 countries are believed to practice torture — means that escape and exile is the only hope for many survivors of that oppression . |
| 10 | The action , taken against the wishes of the Bush administration , followed reports of violation of human rights in Zaïre and the questioning of how Mobutu 's personal fortune had been accumulated . |
| 11 | It " expressed anxiety over the violation of human rights in Kashmir " . |
| 12 | For example , in circumstances where there may be legitimate public concern about the violation of human rights by the new regime , or the manner in which it achieved power , it has not sufficed to say that the announcement of ‘ recognition ’ is simply a neutral formality . |
| 13 | Elsewhere in this issue , Isabel Wolff reports on the inspiring life of Rigoberta Menchu , a indefatigable defender of human rights of indigenous people in Central America ; Ian Williams describes his experience in Somalia while working there as a nurse during the worst of the 1992 famine ; and we publish an extract from The Princess , an anonymous account of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia . |
| 14 | In his case for a Palestinian state Mark Heller explains why , even with the recognition of Palestinian rights to self-determination , the right of return is wholly unacceptable to Israel : ‘ The return of the Palestinians … is impossible … because their introduction into Israel would derange the basic character of Israeli society and thus negate one of the primary purposes of Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza . ’ |
| 15 | In a report on Feb. 20 the investigator from the UN Human Rights Commission , Max van der Stoel , called for long-term monitoring of human rights in Iraq by a UN team . |
| 16 | The speeches by and in support of the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West raised important questions of principle that govern three important matters : first , the need for open justice ; secondly , the provision of proper opportunities for the defence in criminal proceedings to deploy the case on which the defence relies ; and thirdly , the issue on which we focused most , the effect of the existence of those rights on third parties who necessarily can play no part in the proceedings and who consequently have no immediate opportunity to defend themselves or their reputations . |
| 17 | The granting of an individual right of petition to the European Commission and Court of Human Rights permitted individuals complaining of breach of the protection of civil rights in the Convention to go to these institutions if they failed to obtain redress through the UK courts . |
| 18 | The Court of Appeal held that because the principle of effective protection only required that national courts should provide remedies for the protection of European rights which were as effective as the remedies available for the protection of similar rights in English law ; and since a plaintiff can recover damages against governmental bodies in English law only if a breach of private law can be shown ; and since the challenged action would not be actionable in tort in English law ; it followed that the principle of effective protection did not require that damages be available to the plaintiff as a remedy . |
| 19 | Shamir attacked Syria for attempting to present itself as " a model of liberty and the protection of human rights including those of Jews " while in fact harbouring many terrorist organizations . |
| 20 | Jesse Jackson was the first and only candidate for the Democratic nomination to assert that there must be a single standard for the measurement and protection of human rights throughout the world ; no country — not France nor Israel not Nigeria not South Korea nor Iran nor South Africa — should be exempted from the requirements of that single standard . |
| 21 | Areas including social security and protection of social rights of the workers and protection of workers when their contract has been terminated , are left to be decided by a unanimous vote . |
| 22 | Over a century later , in Britain 's American colonies , what began as a defence of traditional rights against the attempts by the British Crown to impose new taxation , became an affirmation of universal and secular liberty — the rights of man . |
| 23 | Should the text be as described , I shall be unable to reconcile the Church 's utter opposition to the killing of the unborn child and euthanasia which are in essence a defence of human rights for those weakest and least-able-to-speak members of humankind . |
| 24 | Sergei Kovalyov , biophysicist and co-founder with Sakharov of the Initiative Group for the Defence of Human Rights in the Soviet Union , was sentenced in 1974 to seven years in a labour camp followed by three years of internal exile . |
| 25 | Utilitarianism substituted pleasure and pain for the attribution of natural rights in citizens and , through the felicific calculus , sought to place morals and politics on an empirical foundation . |
| 26 | One development worth calling to your attention , though , comes from South Africa : Vorster 's decision to give a measure of home-ownership rights to the ‘ urban African ’ . |
| 27 | First , the winning of civil rights during and after the eighteenth century : in a number of important cases the courts developed the doctrine that the individual was free to do anything which was not made unlawful by a specific law ; and the corollary of this approach was that the state could not interfere with the civil and political liberties of its citizens ( in those days ‘ subjects ’ ) unless the government could persuade Parliament to pass legislation authorising the interference . |
| 28 | In October last year the Muslim Judicial Council received a letter from Mandela calling it ‘ one of South Africa 's most powerful organizations committed to the winning of human rights for all our peoples ’ . |
| 29 | Treaty , assumes new obligations which conflict with rights held under an earlier agreement ipso facto agrees to forgo the exercise of such rights to the extent necessary for the performance of its new obligations ( cf. summary at p. 1 , para. 2 ) . |
| 30 | Westbourne Galleries Ltd , subjected the exercise of legal rights to equitable considerations , in conditions comparable to those of Coleman v Myers . |