Sentence examples for asserting a right from inspiring English sources

Respondents could thus claim the funds only by asserting a right growing out of the scheme found fraudulent.

The husband has violated the prime rule of mating behavior by asserting a right over his wife physically.

Another way to look at it, perhaps, is that she benefited by asserting a right that presumably applies to the rich as well as the poor.

Nor do the police score high with civil libertarians for asserting a right to question arrested protesters about their politics, albeit anonymously.

But where the defendant undertakes to limit the plaintiff's recovery by treating the contract price as a limitation upon such recovery, he is asserting a right under the very contract which he himself has discharged.

Many of them shared the view that the prison should be closed, but had criticized the Bush administration for frequently issuing signing statements asserting a right to bypass laws.

Plaintiff also asserts a right to injunctive relief based upon state law.

Intel asserted a right to share information about its chips with whomever it pleased.

However, his quest to assert a right not to be executed at all was unsuccessful.

It asserted a right to be treated fairly in moral terms.

Mr. Putin has aggressively asserted a right to privacy, and his office declined to comment for this article.