Sentence examples for be rightful from inspiring English sources

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be rightful

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By right, by law.

  • Who shall pull this sword from the stone is rightful king of England.

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For countless Uber partner drivers around the world, autonomous vehicles may be rightful cause for worry.

But the mere fact that there are people who can claim to be rightful owners is progress of sorts.

It is important that basic statements satisfy explicit conditions of testability or else they could not be rightful part of science.

This is an inference, however, that Heidegger could have reached just as easily by discussing the world of Van Gogh himself (whom Schapiro takes to be rightful owner of the shoes in the painting).

That is why Jefferson says in his First Inaugural Address that for the will of the majority to be reasonable, it must be rightful ([I1]: 493).[24] Jefferson's attempts at defining "republic" and his nine moral principles "proper for all conditions of society" suggest that republicanism is a political philosophy.

Mitchell Berman has argued that when a coercer threatens to do something, the rightness or wrongness of the use of such a threat to coerce depends on whether it would be rightful or wrongful for that agent to carry through with that threat (Berman 2002).

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It's where a whole political party takes, for the first time, it's rightful place in our parliament".

At the City Hall reception, Mr Livingstone told Poles they were "rightful residents of the capital... Polish Londoners, not outsiders.

Soft power is used to establish a Finlandised state of mind in the west: Finlandisation is rightful because peaceful.

These beliefs, obviously opposed, mark our uncertainty about whether we're rightful peers or masters among other entities with brains.

He said the Rirratjingu were rightful landholders and entitled to the royalties, and dismissed the NLC as bureaucracts.

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