Sentence examples for claim the right from inspiring English sources

So I claim the right to touch, – Easily accepted.

They cannot claim the right to privacy that an employee of a secular organisation would expect.

In politics, voters and the media claim the right to know everything.

Worse, they claim the right to declare takfir, or apostasy among Muslims.

No leader may claim the right to collect debts or gain thrones by going to war.

They still claim the right to sit ex officio in the House of Lords.

Muholi uses her work to claim the right to call herself a "black lesbian".

Kentucky distillers claim the right kind of water is essential for quality bourbon.

Not we claim this or that right, but we claim the "right to have rights".

Negotiations are freestyle, and no party can claim the right to be the first mover.

In these circumstances it's difficult to assert strong leadership and claim the right to be defending the national interest.