Sentence examples for forgo your right from inspiring English sources

I didn't realise until I became involved with asylum seekers in my community that if you ask our government to protect you and offer you permanent residence here, you first have to forgo your right to work and your financial freedom.

"But you start to blame yourself," she added, "because in that moment, it's almost like you forgo your right to raise an issue by letting it pass".

"The length of your sentence is based on your willingness to forgo your right to trial, not what you did or your culpability," said Jamie Fellner, author of a Human Rights Watch report about the abuse of prosecutorial power titled An Offer You Can't Refuse.

Without a willingness to forgo higher incomes right here and right now, and join the charmless and unrefined poor in their struggle for economic justice, the middle-class socialist's solidarity doesn't really amount to a hill of beans – let alone a hill of beans with a city on it.

Without a willingness to forgo higher incomes right here and right now, and join the charmless and unrefined poor in their struggle for economic justice, the middle-class socialist's solidarity doesn't really amount to a hill of beans – let alone a hill of beans with a city on it.

Is it progress for high-profile women to willingly forgo their right to a maternity leave?

The employees are particularly unhappy about the use of forced arbitration, which means victims forgo their right to sue.

Jeter was willing to forgo his right to become a free agent next fall and perhaps make more than $200 million.

It will also forgo its right to audit and guide Japan's 700 local farm co-operatives, which will be prodded towards greater independence.

Dean Karlan, one of the authors, is interested in the idea of "commitment savings accounts", whereby people forgo their right to withdraw funds until they reach a specified level.

The main sticking-point had been the refusal of America's Food and Drug Administration to forgo its right to approve all products sold in the United States.