Sentence examples for a right to invoke from inspiring English sources

The high court used Jacobean case law – "the King by his proclamation or other ways cannot change any part of the common law, or statute law, or the customs of the realm" – to spike the government case that ministers have a right to invoke article 50 under the royal prerogative.

If your contract provides for resolving all contractual disputes by entering into binding arbitration, you have a right to invoke that privilege once you and your lawyer decide that the other party is refusing to negotiate a simple resolution to your contract dispute.

"Even were I not bound by [that case]," Jaffe writes, "the issue of a chimpanzee's right to invoke the writ of habeas corpus is best decided, if not by the Legislature, then by the Court of Appeals, given its role in setting state policy".

It is not right to invoke a domestic law, as Great Britain has done, to argue that it may have the right to enter the Ecuadorean embassy.

The Russian president said his state-owned supplier, Gazprom, had the right to invoke a clause in its contract and demand pre-payment if Ukraine did not clear its arrears.

Interestingly, none are to be appointed by the White House, and President Obama has already issued a signing statement reserving the right to invoke executive privilege in cases where materials or testimony from the executive branch are requested under subpoena.

By day's end, the Bush campaign had issued a statement from Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, supporting Mr. Bush's right to invoke the attacks.

But until then, he has every right to invoke the legal protections available to everyone else.

The Justice Department was right to invoke the Voting Rights Act and block South Carolina's new law requiring voters to present photo identification.

The court is right to invoke the separation of powers, and to defend its ability to govern itself without interference from the legislative branch.

The only people who would seem to have the right to invoke God at the moment are the Haitians themselves, who beseech his help amidst dreadful pain.