Sentence examples for affirmed a right from inspiring English sources

Municipal officials have since affirmed a right of the marchers to celebrate as they choose.

Her reports were read closely by government agencies, judicial officials and the news media, and her research influenced a 1979 landmark ruling that affirmed a right to shelter in New York City.

After years of trying to affirm a right to counsel through state legislatures and courts, activists have turned to big cities, with an emphasis on housing.

Even the Supreme Court, which in 2008 strongly affirmed a broad right to bear arms, at the same time endorsed prohibitions on gun ownership "by felons and the mentally ill".

The court first affirmed a constitutional right to executive privilege in U.S. v. Nixon.

She also said that she would continue to support funding for Planned Parenthood, adding that the courts have affirmed a legal right to an abortion and she stands by that.

While scholars like Saul Cornell have acknowledged that Jefferson affirmed an individual right to keep arms for private purposes, he never described disorganized or spontaneous insurrection as a right.

Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision, affirmed a woman's right to an abortion until the third trimester, and the court later held that the right existed until fetal viability — typically at 23 or 24 weeks of pregnancy.

This was the year before the United States Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, a case originating in Texas, affirmed a woman's right to have an abortion until the fetus was viable.

Many advocates see access to abortion as a fundamental component of women's healthcare, but the decision to end a pregnancy remains a highly stigmatized one and misconceptions abound as to who seeks an abortion and why – even 42 years after the Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade affirmed a woman's right to choose.

Clarification: Language in this story has been amended to include more details about the Supreme Court cases that affirmed a woman's right to an abortion.