Sentence examples for asserts right from inspiring English sources

Her enthusiasm picking up, she happily asserts, "right now, we have access to clean water and we can keep our little children and homes clean".

He asserted right up to the voting that tax increases were not on the table.

Much is made today of an asserted right of self-expression and of the related right to privacy.

The law did not invite constitutional scrutiny, he said, because it did not regulate commercial activity and because the asserted right of access was not fundamental.

Since rights assertions suggest conclusive reasons, people can be tempted to assert rights when they want to end a discussion instead of continuing it.

Does the consulting contract assert rights to your future IP, and, if so, is it a reasonable assertion?

As citizens we did not assert rights, we supplicated for permission.

On March 8 , 1885 Riel and the Métis passed a 10-point "Revolutionary Bill of Rights," in which the Métis asserted rights of possession to their farms.

It has also asserted rights over file formats and so-called "application programming interfaces" that let different types of software interact.

Rich countries are unilaterally asserting rights of private ownership over human and plant genetic sequences, or basic computer codes, or chemical compounds long in use in herbal medicines.

His firm, called ThinkFire, is a licensing gun for hire, helping clients assert rights to their intellectual property.