Sentence examples for asserted their rights from inspiring English sources

Insect phobics would have a problem here, but I liked the way these creatures asserted their rights over their territory.

African Americans who asserted their rights in dealings with white employers, teachers, ministers, and others seeking to assist the former slaves also became targets.

Anxious to keep out the tented rebels, Broadgate and Canary Wharf reached for the injunctions that asserted their rights as private landowners.

Property owners soon asserted their rights and began building again on plots along the lines of the previous medieval street pattern.

Those workers, many of them women and immigrants, like the Los Angeles office cleaners Sam represents, asserted their rights not only to sustenance, but to beauty as well.

In the 1950s and 1960s, black activists pushed for the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act and asserted their rights in the courts in cases like Brown v. Board of Education.

Once circulation figures became all-important, advertisers naturally asserted their right to verify them.

They elected their own leaders and asserted their right to self-determination.

The Palestinians, on the other hand, have repeatedly asserted their right to the whole of Israel.

Two top company officials have already asserted their right not to testify about the matter, according to a recent filing.

If even a small fraction of those defendants asserted their right to a trial, criminal courts would be overwhelmed.