Sentence examples for assert the rights from inspiring English sources

Is Mr Brown prepared to assert the rights of nation states to control capital flows?

Carpenter had done this, a front-page Times story reported, to assert the rights of delegates.

It would assert the rights of women, boldly and brashly, but without turning its own conviction into a false identity or ethic.

Bolivia also hosted the World people's climate summit where 45,000 people from 120 countries met in April to assert the "rights of Mother Nature".

Another way of putting this is that those who assert the rights of animals are in effect asserting – first and foremost – a right to life for all animals.

Kony believes he is the spokesman of God but also tries to assert the rights of his Acholi people in Uganda, particularly after the overthrow of the Acholi president.

Non-Jews rarely assert the right to head Jewish groups.

If the Boy Scouts were required to admit leaders who advocated a position contrary to its own, then men could assert the right to lead the Girl Scouts, gentiles could assert the right to head Jewish groups and heterosexuals could assert the right to lead gay groups.

And using language taken from the statute, he said that "the union does not assert the right to strike".

In these and other areas, we assert the right and need to make civil but acute criticisms.

"We similarly assert the right of Palestinians to have a sovereign, independent and viable state within secure and recognized borders".