Sentence examples for asserts the rights from inspiring English sources

"Here in Bali, social movements, trade unions and campaign groups have supported the efforts of developing countries to get a deal which moves the agenda away from a pro-corporate charter and towards something that asserts the rights and needs of the majority of the world's population," he said.

What's more, Camp Bow Wow asserts the rights to any invention its workers come up with during their employment.

A Chinese dissident who asserts the right to free political activity is both right and wrong.

Among other wartime privileges the United States claims, it asserts the right to detain people indefinitely until the end of "hostilities".

In plain English, this means the US asserts the right to roam the world committing crimes with impunity.

Yet, his book opens with a manifesto that asserts the right to "resist the paradigm" and "escape the data stream".

Down with all this political correctness, he says – as he asserts the right of white actors to play Othello.

Instead, the US baldly asserts the right to detain him indefinitely under supposed "law of war" detention.

This asserts the right of human beings in ways that are now entrenched in the theory and (most of the time) the practice of liberal democracy.

Today's decision does not pretend that it is and yet still asserts the right to impose it against the will of the people's representatives in Congress.

He argues for "food sovereignty", the idea, coined by members of La Via Campesina in 1996, that asserts the right of people to define their own food systems.