Sentence examples for asserted the right of from inspiring English sources

Wolf asserted the right of the protesters to use the sidewalk.

While some of his servants were fashionable anticlericals, most were regalists; that is, they asserted the right of the crown to control over the church in civil matters.

Roth answered his critics in an essay, "Writing About Jews," that asserted the right of a novelist to explore transgression, which is to say, human nature.

Further gestures to appease the Sunnis came in the final communiqué, which asserted the right of "all peoples" to resist occupation, and called for a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops.

He was also struck by one of the briefs filed in Rasul v. Bush, the federal lawsuit that asserted the right of the Guantánamo prisoners to contest their detention in the court.

He had the constitution amended to embody the newly proclaimed Brezhnev Doctrine, which asserted the right of the Soviet Union to intervene militarily if it perceived socialism anywhere to be under threat, and in 1971 he repudiated the Prague Spring declaring that "in 1968 socialism was in danger in Czechoslovakia, and the armed intervention helped to save it".

Like other members of the Whig Party, he asserted the rights of Congress against the iron will of President Andrew Jackson, for whom compromise was a violation of his duty to the People.

In early November, Germany — which, in part to combat the legacy of the Third Reich, has deliberately asserted the rights of marginalized groups — became the first country in Europe to allow a third gender designation: X, for indeterminate or intersex.

In 1809 a Mr. Crunden, of Brighton, then the favourite resort of elegant depravity, asserted the rights of the natural man and pranced naked down the beach and into the water.

He strenuously rejected the doctrine of nullification, advanced by Calhoun and other South Carolinians, which asserted the rights of states to declare federal laws null and void within their borders.

This law also asserted the rights of adults to divorce, which embraced the free-choice marriage, and helped transfer power from the older to the younger generations.