Sentence examples for Be rightful from inspiring English sources

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Be rightful

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By right, by law.

  • Who shall pull this sword from the stone is rightful king of England.

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Thomas Jefferson said it best, when he wrote, "All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression". That is our great challenge, as Americans and as Jews.

When the law of dignity through the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution begins to come to the fore, it will be rightful place of American courts to find these practices unconstitutional.

For countless Uber partner drivers around the world, autonomous vehicles may be rightful cause for worry.

But the mere fact that there are people who can claim to be rightful owners is progress of sorts.

It is important that basic statements satisfy explicit conditions of testability or else they could not be rightful part of science.

This is an inference, however, that Heidegger could have reached just as easily by discussing the world of Van Gogh himself (whom Schapiro takes to be rightful owner of the shoes in the painting).

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It's where a whole political party takes, for the first time, it's rightful place in our parliament".

At the City Hall reception, Mr Livingstone told Poles they were "rightful residents of the capital... Polish Londoners, not outsiders.

Soft power is used to establish a Finlandised state of mind in the west: Finlandisation is rightful because peaceful.

These beliefs, obviously opposed, mark our uncertainty about whether we're rightful peers or masters among other entities with brains.

He said the Rirratjingu were rightful landholders and entitled to the royalties, and dismissed the NLC as bureaucracts.

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