Sentence examples for conferred rights from inspiring English sources
Voters also rejected an antiabortion amendment to the Colorado Constitution that would have conferred rights "to every human being from the beginning of the biological development".
In France the villes neuves ("new towns") and bastides (medieval French towns laid out on a rectangular grid) likewise conferred rights on servile persons.
It would mean that they would have to accept that for 1,400 years the Arab-Muslim presence in Palestine was transient and unlawful, and based on the false premise that continuity of habitation conferred rights of ownership.
Democracy depended on a robust citizenship, and this citizenship, in turn, was a struggle of all the men (and, now, women) of the polity; it conferred rights as well as responsibilities.
We couldn't any longer justify participating in a system that conferred rights and benefits on part of our members, while denying those same rights and benefits to other members.
However, bigness confers power but it does not confer rights.
One such aspect has been the extent to which it confers rights on individuals.
The company won't talk about the details, but these shares confer rights and privileges not attached to common stock.
In 1999, scientists and lawyers petitioned New Zealand's parliament to pass a bill conferring "rights" on chimpanzees and other primates.
In this and other respects, the MCA purports to confer rights that, upon close inspection, prove illusory.
It is unthinkable that Mr. Mamère should confer rights in Bègles that cannot be conferred in Paris (where the openly gay mayor, Bertrand Delano.
