Sentence examples for exercised a right from inspiring English sources

Yet the French actor simply exercised a right granted by the European Convention on Human Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in the United States by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

If solitary men on the streets at night have exercised a right to the city denied to solitary women, then they too have often been identified or represented as pariahs.

Sony exercised a right in its original contract with ATV that allows one partner to purchase the other's interest and that the transaction will have no material impact on its fiscal year results.

Instead of retranslating such quotations we have merely used the original English, while remarking any changes Tocqueville may have made in his translation or citation (for he sometimes exercised a right to be unfaithful that we as his inferiors do not claim).

They simply exercised a right every citizen of this country possesses; the right not to incriminate yourself.

They are exercising a right.

Lehman stepped in, exercising a "right of first offer" with its $1.3 billion offer.

The reasoning is simple: To destroy the means by which one exercises a right is to destroy the right.

They are exercising a right to withdraw labour, not a right to get paid for taking a day off work.

This is unjust: £55,000 for camping in a field, doing no damage and exercising a right to protest peacefully".

Nearly all these defendants were exercising a right their state permits to all persons accused of a capital offense.