Sentence examples for equivalent right from inspiring English sources

But the right of free speech doesn't assume an equivalent right to force others to listen.

There was an equivalent right, Mr Fitzgerald added, under the European rights convention, of freedom of expression.

The equivalent right could be extended to citizens of Scotland and Northern Ireland, to preserve their right to live in England and Wales.

In his decision, Judge Cacheris said that if corporations and people have an equivalent right to free speech under Citizens United, they also have an equivalent right to contribute to candidates, albeit within the same limits currently established by federal law.

Article 4 of the original Screen Writers Guild demands in February 1933 did attempt to obtain the equivalent right of the author to approve or disapprove, in writing, any changes in a script that was his original work.

Hirsch and Mellins often talk about "sexual citizenship," which they define as a "person's understanding of his or her right, and other people's equivalent right, to sexual self-determination".

Interestingly, in previous years NovaStar paid its dividend equivalent rights in its own stock, not cash.

According to the company's 2006 annual report, some $2.2 million was taken out of shareholders' equity to cover the dividends, known as dividend equivalent rights.

But the Treasury has acknowledged that employers can return equivalent rights to individuals on a selective basis through their personal contracts.

Same-sex married couples and those with equivalent rights living in states that recognize them have this benefit only on the state level.

He added that before he started his inquiry, he had "no concept of the size of the problem we're facing… Parliament decided people should be empowered and the failure to implement this Act is the failure to protect vulnerable individuals; to give them equivalent rights to you and me.