Sentence examples for abandon a right from inspiring English sources

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"Waive" is a word of different origin, meaning to abandon a right or claim.

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In this book, renowned anthropologist Dorothy Hodgson offers a detailed ethnohistorical investigation of why and how Maasai of Tanzania first sought then eventually abandoned a rights recognition strategy premised on being identified as Indigenous within international/United Nations fora as a venue for pursuing their goals.

ALLTHINGSD Rio Tinto Free to Take Over Mongolia Project  |  Rio Tinto, the British-Australian mining giant, can now take over the Oyu Tolgoi mining project in Mongolia, after Ivanhoe Mines, which owns the project, said it would abandon a "poison pill" shareholder rights plan, Reuters reports.

On July 4, the party's representatives in the European Parliament abandoned a far-right legislative alliance for the more mainstream European Conservatives and Reformists group.

He was right to abandon a strategy of outreach to Republicans that was not working.

1.59pm GMT Osborne: I don't think it's right to abandon a credible deficit plan.

Abandoning network neutrality, European Digital Rights and other net-advocacy groups wrote in an open letter to EU officials, means abandoning a core human right: "the freedom to impart and receive information without interference".Industry insiders, network engineers and some economists say this is scaremongering.

Opponents, who describe the practice as a barbaric bloodsport, accused the government of abandoning a commitment to animal rights.

When a society constantly demands that everyone should abandon this right, the society becomes a society without creativity.

Let us be grateful to Henry David Thoreau for seeing the light and doing the right thing: abandoning a career in poetry to become, as Andrea Wulf ("A Man for All Seasons," April 21) notes, "one of America's most influential nature writers".

"No Palestinian leader can abandon the right of return," Muhammad Shtayyeh, a member of the Fatah Central Committee and an adviser to President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, said in a telephone interview.

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