Sentence examples for demanded a right from inspiring English sources

The protests have focused on lifting a decade-long Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the territory and residents have demanded a right of return to ancestral homes in Israel for Palestinian refugee families.

Mr. Xi's remarks came after Beijing accused foreign forces of fostering the pro-democracy Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong, where protesters demanded a right to nominate candidates for the territory's next leader.

Citing a provision in the new Constitution that requires media organizations to provide news in a "timely and objective" fashion, leaders of Queremos Elegir have demanded a right to reply to him on the air.

October 2, 2013 Stewart Wood (@StewartWood) That speech felt like it was given by a Prime Minister who had demanded a right of reply to the Leader of the Opposition.

(Later, a spokesman appropriated another Israeli phrase in demanding "a right of return").

The religious objectors demand a right to control how the government regulates insurance companies.

Still, Mr. Ferris expressed some concern about the meeting, saying, "Someone demanding a right at the table because of their homosexuality -- that's what bothers me".

Those who demand a "right to return" for former residents are merely "using people" for political ends, Dr. Blakely said sharply in an interview.

With two-thirds of Gaza's 2 million people being refugees or their descendants, protesters are demanding a "right to return" to their ancestral homes.

The album became part of that fight, with Hallyday's elder children demanding a right to oversee the record's production.

So for months, social advocates like Minu Gandhi have canvassed the city, "arguing that this disparity amounts to blatant discrimination and asking women to start demanding a right most of them had never contemplated: the Right to Pee," he wrote.