Sentence examples for contested right from inspiring English sources

The contested right to property led to the Civil War, and six hundred thousand dead.

Urgency, suffering, paranoia, partisanship, violence, political theatre, insurrection, and a swirl of disputed ideas have gathered around each of these contested rights.

The question is: how can the current thin list of universal human rights be expanded to include some of these contested rights?

Even if people agree to abstract from culturally specific ways of justifying and implementing norms, the likely outcome is a withdrawal to a highly general, abstract realm of agreement that fails to resolve actual disputes over contested rights.

John contested the right of the archbishop to some jurisdictional rights however, as well as forest rights, forcing Coutances to pay 2,100 Angevin pounds to secure most of the contested rights.

After Richard's death, Coutances invested Prince John as Duke of Normandy, but was forced to pay 2,100 Angevin pounds to secure contested rights from the new king.

A third contested rights domain within human rights in these interventions was the area of sexual rights.

Concerns included an undefined concept of rights, operational difficulties in implementation, contested rights, possible misuse of rights rhetoric and movement away from a needs-based approach.

We look at how South African men participating in these programs responded to three thematic messages frequently found in gender-transformative work: 1) the 'costs of masculinity' men pay for adherence to harmful gender constructs; 2) multiple forms of masculinity; and 3) the human rights framework and contested rights.

The three thematic messages highlighted here are 1) the 'costs of masculinity' men pay for adhering to rigid and harmful gender constructs; 2) the existence of multiple forms of masculinity and differences and inequalities among men; and 3) applying a human rights framework when thinking about gender and contested rights.

No intolerant tyranny menaced it, no other religion contested its right to grow and prosper and develop in different ways.