Sentence examples for grants a right from inspiring English sources

He is right that city law grants a right to shelter, the result of a hard-fought legal battle that Mr. Bloomberg has repeatedly tried to undermine.

First, it says, the Second Amendment's text and history, properly understood, show that the amendment grants a right that "may be exercised only in connection with service in a state-regulated militia".

Usually, of course, the lawmaker in granting a power also grants a right to exercise it, but occasionally this is not so, for example where the exercising of the right would itself be a crime or a civil wrong.

Today, if I were granted a right to have a horse, I'm not sure where I would put it.

The courts have said that the Constitution does not grant a right to a public education as such.

Michael Tan of Taylor Wessing, another law firm, notes that it does not grant a "right to be forgotten" (by having firms expunge all record of a former customer).

At issue was a Florida statute that required the state's newspapers to grant a "right of reply" to political candidates criticized in their pages.

It's indebted to feminism, and to the realization that men, but not women, have long been granted a right to solitude.

For example, Mousa Abu Marzook (the deputy chairman of Hamas) said no when we proposed a trade-off for peace without granting a right of return.

"This decision was largely based on the probable 'chilling effect' on free speech of granting a right of action," says Clarke-Williams.

After being granted a right of reply, Mr Miliband's response was published alongside an editorial by the Mail accusing his father of leaving an "evil legacy", accompanied by an abridged version of Mr Levy's article.