Sentence examples for grant basic from inspiring English sources

Spain is moving to grant basic legal rights to apes.

And so what I perceive, sadly, is a perplexing resistance to change, clearly manifested in the government's refusal to grant basic rights to second-generation immigrants.

The systematic refusal of Arab governments to grant basic human rights to Palestinians who are born and die in their countries – combined with periodic mass expulsions of entire Palestinian communities – recalls the treatment of Jews in medieval Europe.

His government would not press for instant democracy everywhere, but would urge Arab leaders to grant basic rights free speech, the right to free assembly and the rule of law precisely because denying people such rights was a recipe for instability.

But most importantly they will need to be granted basic human rights if they are ever to recover.

His self-described absurd reduction that granting basic civil marriage rights to same-sex couples would lead to arguments in favor of inter-species marriages is weak and ill founded.

For Catholics, it took the decline of the great Catholic nations of Europe for British Protestantism finally to feel safe, in the 19th century, in granting basic liberties to those who followed Rome.

And a recent push by the UN to get more countries to sign two treaties granting basic rights to stateless residents, and seeking to resolve their legal status, has started to bear fruit.

The economy would soon be righted, the greed-merchants of Wall Street punished and tamed, and Obama would complete the long-unfinished work of his predecessors, finally bringing to the US what most other civilised nations take for granted: basic healthcare for all.

Note how many women managed family homesteads, or traveled as nurses and aides beside American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, and you may have second thoughts about the fact that they were not granted basic rights of citizenship, including suffrage, until generations later.

Although American slaves were emancipated as a result of the Civil War and were then granted basic civil rights through the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, struggles to secure federal protection of these rights continued during the next century.