Sentence examples similar to Less rightful from inspiring English sources

Without wishing to denigrate Rooney's total in any way, much less deny him his rightful place at the top of the English goalscoring ranks, this was a record that was long overdue an overhaul.

My family discriminated against me and denied me my rightful property rights.

On Peters's projection, by contrast, areas of equal size on the globe are also equally sized on the map so poorer, less powerful nations could be restored to their rightful proportions.

In a less jaded era, its creators would have been the rightful heirs of Oscar Wilde or Lenny Bruce — taking frequent risks to fillet the culture's sacred cows.

This is nothing less than a restoration of the filibuster to its rightful place in the Senate.

Of the estimated eight million hectares of land that have been illegally acquired — largely at the hands of Colombian paramilitaries and security forces — less than 30,000 hectares have been returned to their rightful owner.

The Cornhuskers' performance last night did less to convince the nation that Nebraska was in its rightful place than to underline Miami's dominance.

But whether the filmmakers want to intimate that this is the rightful follow-up to the rebooted Bond is less interesting than this type of longitudinal thinking the movies inspire.

I think they're trying to make sure that they are a major player and participant in online classifieds so that they still have their rightful place, even if it's going to be less profitable for them.

For that reason the exhibition is less a visual history of the California College of the Arts than an assertion of its rightful historical place alongside its more academic cousins.

To say the situation has been handled less than justly is an understatement; add to this the inconvenient truth that the rightful owners of all of the land in question in a broader historical sense are undoubtedly Native American in the first place, and the unfairness comes into sharp focus.