At its heart, energy policy generates conflicting rights.
In most cases, a human rights claim is the beginning rather than the end of a dispute about the meaning of the right or its relative standing vis-à-vis conflicting rights.
In making her ruling, she said she had weighed conflicting rights from the European Convention on Human Rights, which became part of English law last year: the right of the two to privacy against the news media's right to freedom of expression.
It certainly means that one cannot nominate single culprits for the world's present discontents: too many factors, too many layers of history, too many conflicting rights and wrongs jostle in the claustrophobic space of explanations for that.
The US Constitution does indeed grant conflicting rights.
When the Constitution grants conflicting rights, the right to life must be paramount, because without it, no other rights are possible.
Conflicting rights Using schools as evacuation centers creates problems for teachers, pupils and evacuees alike.
"It's a very difficult issue because there are conflicting rights here," Education Cluster Coordinator Martijn Engels comments.
"It's a very difficult issue because there are conflicting rights here," Martijn said.
It was not – and still is not – able to negotiate between conflicting rights.
