Example sentences of "of the rights of " in BNC.
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| 1 | All his adult life , Dignam had been one of the most involved defenders of the rights of actors . |
| 2 | The difficult issue is how far this movement should be taken : changes which make it easier to convict men of sexual assault on women , or parents of the sexual abuse of children , can not be welcomed unless one has a clear conception of the rights of defendants as well as the rights of victims . |
| 3 | Meanwhile in 1558 he wrote the Appellation to the Nobility and Estates of Scotland , a work which , taken in conjunction with his Letter addressed to the Commonalty of Scotland , shows how far his mind was moving towards a positive theory of the rights of resistance in God 's cause . |
| 4 | Godwin was a widower : his first wife had been Mary Wollstonecraft , author of that seminal feminist work , A Vindication of the Rights of Women . |
| 5 | While he is not a charismatic figure , his supporters say he would prove a worthy defender of the rights of backbenchers against increasing government power . |
| 6 | There has been little understanding or recognition of the rights of teachers as employees let alone as adults with needs , expectations and aspirations . |
| 7 | We will work for a clear definition of the rights of the European citizen , and insist that these are common to all Community nationals . |
| 8 | It is an interesting question what the French will do with Article 3 of the ‘ Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen ’ if a treaty of European Union were ever adopted : ‘ The principle of all sovereignty resides necessarily in the Nation . |
| 9 | Another aspect of the rights of the pupil in relation to his record is his right to have the record disclosed where it will be to his benefit and to prevent disclosure elsewhere . |
| 10 | There is the added complication here that , following financial delegation , the governors of the school have many of the rights of an employer previously resting with the Local Authority . |
| 11 | ‘ Kenneth Gurney , MP , a backbencher with no governmental or party axe to grind , but a keen awareness of the rights of the man in the street , here to ask questions on behalf of the watching millions … . ’ |
| 12 | On the one hand , the doctrine of the rights of man raised high hopes of universal freedom . |
| 13 | However , despite all the emergencies , in the first instance , the Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia ( of 18 November 1917 ) boldly committed the new Bolshevik Government to support the national self-determination of Russia 's peoples ‘ even to the point of separation and the formation of an independent State ’ . |
| 14 | Champions of the rights of developing nations welcomed AGC 's offer with the caveat that the patent system still favours the rights of richer nations and penalises poor nations . |
| 15 | NICRA denounced these measures as a violation of the rights of freedom of speech , assembly and association and was represented at protest rallies over the Republican Clubs ban and the banning of the 1968 Easter Rising commemoration in Armagh . |
| 16 | The ‘ law of the constitution ’ was ‘ not the source but the consequence of the rights of individuals , as defined and enforced by the courts ’ . |
| 17 | It takes its cue from other kinds of liberation , and rests the call for Animal Liberation on the recognition of the rights of nonhuman animals , including in particular their right not to be treated as mere means to human ends . |
| 18 | Further speculation ascribes its basic design to Thomas Paine , author of The Rights of Man ( see also Sunderland ) . |
| 19 | Peter gives all new members of staff a document which tells them what their duties are and reminds them of the rights of the residents . |
| 20 | The landed interests , who still dominated the House of Commons as well as the House of Lords , were outraged : ‘ a more distinct and determined invasion of the rights of property could not have been devised ’ . |
| 21 | This can be assumed , quite fairly , to be the beginning of the acknowledgement of the rights of ownership , generally agreed to be a good thing when protected from definable abuse . |
| 22 | But the notion that it is one of the rights of man to spend a fortnight , or a month , at Margate , or on the riviera , or in Santander , or Florida ; and that it is wrong and immoral and damaging to health to prevent it — this is modern . |
| 23 | Their plans under this law included : the introduction of protective custody without trial ; the introduction of a law to protect the NSDAP from libel , slander or defamation — which effectively meant that all criticism of the Party ran the risk of legal action ; and the curtailment of the rights of newspapers , editors and journalists . |
| 24 | It appeared to some that somehow the police had been left to solve or to break the strike by impeding the exercise of the rights of persuasion and protest aimed at bringing out the miners who were still at work . |
| 25 | Proposals made thus far in this respect include protection at work for pregnant women or those who have already given birth ; pro rata equation of the rights of ‘ a-typical ’ ( part-time seasonal and temporary ) workers with those of full-time workers ; working hours ; establishment of European works councils [ see pp. 45 — 6 ] ; proof of employment contract ; and minimum safety and health requirements at temporary or mobile work sites , such as construction sites and safety signs in the workplace . |
| 26 | Lugard 's sense of the rights of conquest was pronounced , and his belief in Indirect Rule implied no weakening of it . |
| 27 | any of the rights of the shares to receive payments ( whether in respect of dividends , in respect of redemption or otherwise ) are for a limited amount which is not calculated by reference to the company 's assets or profits or the dividends on any class of equity share . |
| 28 | A brief summary of the rights of each class of shares should be given . |
| 29 | People who glibly hold that the United Kingdom judiciary is a guardian of the rights of the citizen should ponder over these figures . |
| 30 | Enforcement , such as it was , consisted largely of the rights of borrowers ( or , in practice much more often , lenders ) to sue in the courts ; and the rights of borrowers , if sued , to claim that the law had been breached by lenders . |