Example sentences of "the right to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we are asking for is a basic human right as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – – the right to participate in society , the right to a future for our children , for our community , the right to a decent job , a real job . |
| 2 | Now we 'll see what the government does in response to er all their friends who are going bankrupt in the Lloyds er cos er that , in that scandal , on the one hand you 've got the government trying to save its neck with its forty four MPs who 've had their , had their hand in the till at the same that they 're doing that , they wo n't actually meet the just demands of people who 've worked all their lives to actually have some sort of security in the future , and that 's the ol er sort of double standards they 're gon na try and er and use to get off the hook on that one because they owe people in this country a decent , we should have the right to a decent pension and security , employment and er with this , this campaign , we should be , we should be concentrating on as a major issue for this union in the forthcoming year . |
| 3 | Of course safeguards are necessary for the environment , for local residents , for local communities and for the right to a decent quality of life , so I warmly welcome the transport and works Bill , which will defend the safeguards but speed up the decision process . |
| 4 | All marriages came under civil jurisdiction and all , including Roman Catholics , had the right to a civil divorce . |
| 5 | The National Council for Women 's ‘ Charter for Women 's Health ’ launched in September calls for the right to knowledge , participation in health-care decisions , opportunity for choice , provision for quality care , accessible health care & the right to a healthy lifestyle ( All issues that the NCT has been working towards for a long time ) . |
| 6 | They had not only forfeited the right to a political vote . |
| 7 | So could I therefore ask the minister to , on another matter , to ensure that later in his remarks would he agree to the proposal that the right to a postal vote should be highly publicised in this country , perhaps by putting the R P F nine A form in the newspapers well before the closing date of May the twentieth . |
| 8 | Women were therefore forced either to go on strike or to occupy factories in order to gain the right to a collective contract and recognition of their union . |
| 9 | In the negotiations after the eviction , the women won the right to a collective contract and the reinstatement of 90 workers who had been dismissed . |
| 10 | It found that the small South Island-based tribe had an exclusive right to fish virtually all of the South Island coastline , as well as the right to a reasonable share of the country 's 200-mile deep-water fishing zone . |
| 11 | Most of these possibilities exclude animals but where they do not ( we might , for example , feel it appropriate to praise the sheepdog by saying that it has earned the right to a good meal ) the attribution is clearly analogical since it is based upon such a slim comparison with human capacity . |
| 12 | Tell yourself , ‘ The very fact that I am alive gives me the right to a new beginning . ’ |
| 13 | The workshop began with a discussion about whether everyone had the right to a paid job . |
| 14 | Attention is exclusively on the right to a fair hearing . |
| 15 | In essence , B's claim can be characterised as asserting that he has been denied the right to a fair criminal trial . |
| 16 | Landlords are continuing to issue occupiers of their property with " licence agreements " ; only a very small proportion will appreciate that they are not bound by the agreement they have signed , and realise that they have the right to a fair rent and security of tenure . |
| 17 | The right to a safe environment is ever more insistently presented today as a right that must be included in an updated Charter of Human Rights . ’ |
| 18 | We must never again allow , now that we 're all too painfully aware of the consequences any company to cheat and swindle any working man or woman after a lifetime 's toil from the right to a happy and dignified and financially secure retirement . |
| 19 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 20 | The State Council and the Council of Ministers , acting upon a recommendation made by the central committee of the ruling Bulgarian Communist party ( BCP ) on Dec. 29 , had published on the same day a joint resolution " condemning all actions which curtail the right to a free choice of name , to freedom of religion , and also the right of everyone — while formally recognizing and using the Bulgarian language as the official language — to speak other languages in their day-to-day communication and to observe their customs " . |
| 21 | The ERA gives every young citizen the right to a basic curriculum which includes the National Curriculum . |
| 22 | He made it clear that he was prepared to use the power of the government to its fullest extent to provide what he regarded as everyone 's right — " the right to a comfortable living " . |
| 23 | THE owners of the pornography satellite channel , Red Hot Television , yesterday won the right to a High Court review of the Government 's plan to outlaw the sale of decoders for the films being beamed into Britain from Denmark . |
| 24 | The right to a valid notice to quit , in writing , served at least four weeks before it is due to expire , and which must also contain certain prescribed information about tenant 's rights . |
| 25 | The part-time worker has the right to a monthly salary proportionally equivalent to that of a corresponding full-time employee . |
| 26 | The point here is that given the institutional and political realities of the formulation and implementation of nuclear policy , it would be difficult to characterise any rights to which the peace movement may wish to lay claim ( for example , the right to a nuclear-free world ) as legally protected ‘ choices ’ , especially given the insistence by some governments that nuclear policy is not a ‘ justiciable ’ issue ( Weiss , Chapter 11 ; but see Offczors and Ruete , Chapter 13 ; Hickman , Chapter 12 , all in this volume ) . |
| 27 | As the earlier quotation from Patrons are people implies , a young person enters the library as an individual , independent person with the right to a full , professional level of service . |
| 28 | Representatives ask for a full written decision as a matter of course , whereas unrepresented parties are less likely to exercise the right to a full written decision . |
| 29 | If the court can spell out an implied agreement that all parties recognised that the continuing partners would be entitled to carry on the practice after the departure of an outgoing partner , the right to a full dissolution will not be available , but the outgoing partner will have the benefit of s43 of the Act and the continuing partners will , after all necessary accounts and inquiries have been taken , be obliged to pay him the value of his interest in the firm — see Sobell v Boston [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 1587 . |
| 30 | Kuusinen quoted to them the obligations imposed by the Whitsun Conference decision : We propose that the following questions be raised for discussion in all the organisations of the ILP. ( l ) What concrete mass actions on the basis of the united front of the C.P.G.B. and the ILP can and must be carried out in the near future with the aim of a successful struggle for a 10% wage increase , against the Means Test , and other similar partial demands advanced by the C.P.G.B. and the ILP ? ( 2 ) Is it desirable for the ILP to join the Communist International as a Party sympathising with Communism with the right to a consultative vote … ? |