Sentence examples for conferring a right from inspiring English sources

At the time of his ruling, no federal Circuit Court had read the Amendment as conferring a right divorced from the militia purpose.

The Court declared that the Second Amendment should not be understood as conferring a "right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose".

The Court declared that the Second Amendment should not be understood as conferring a "right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose". The Court gave examples of firearms laws presumed to be lawful.

He dismissed the suggestion that the right to life automatically conferred a right to die.

A long-touted proposal to confer a "right" to food will be delayed.

No such concern would be implicated if the Second Amendment conferred a right to bear arms wholly unrelated to militia service.

Section 4965 undertakes to work a forfeiture of copyrighted articles, and confers a right of action for a penalty.

Nor does it confer a right to enlist the machinery of government to enforce religious restrictions in public services.

"The regulations don't confer a right to work flexibly, and there are a lot of reasons an employer might give to turn an application down," she says.

These options are securities that confer a right, but not an obligation, to buy a basket of stocks at a set price within a certain period.

The court acknowledged the "tragic circumstances" in the case, but it rejected the argument that the decriminalization of suicide necessarily conferred a right to die.