Sentence examples for a statement of rights from inspiring English sources

The rights and responsibilities of Facebook and the People that use it should be described in a Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, which should not be inconsistent with these Principles.

During the drafting in 1947 of the Universal Declaration, the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association warned of the danger that the Declaration would be "a statement of rights conceived only in terms of the values prevalent in Western Europe and America".

The final declaration was a statement of human rights as well as an acknowledgment of the need for environmental protection.

Nonetheless the IfG says the rules of the pre-election game should be made transparent, and include a statement of the rights of access of parties.

I abhor the current posing behind British nationalism, with ever present union flags (often incorrectly flown), but I am attracted by the prospect of a written constitution, a statement of individual rights and the opportunity to vote for a parliament with a mandate to deliver social justice.

According to historian David Armitage, the Declaration of Independence did prove to be internationally influential, but not as a statement of human rights.

Labour's solution in 1993, proposed in the National Policy Forum document A New Agenda for Democracy, was to incorporate the ECHR into UK law as a "mature statement of rights" which the UK was already signed up to "that has been interpreted and applied over many years".

"It can be a pledge of commitment to the country; it can be a statement of what the rights and responsibilities of citizens are," he said.

Drafted in 1950 by the newly established Council of Europe, the convention is a statement of basic human rights intended to ensure that the horrors of the Holocaust and the second world war could never return.

—Posting proposed Facebook Principles and a proposed Facebook Statement of Rights & Responsibilities, opening “town hall” groups on the site.

Ockham took this as a statement of a natural right belonging to each "free" community, i.e. one not already under government, to establish its own law and its own government.[96] This right exists by natural law in the third sense (§6.1 above), i.e. "on supposition", namely on the supposition that the community needs law and government.