Sentence examples for grants rights from inspiring English sources

The companies said their settlement included a 10-year license agreement that grants rights to current and future patents held by both parties.

Previously firms owned minerals wherever they had a right to mine, but new laws describe underground deposits as state property; the government then grants rights to exploit them.

Like all other franchisers, it grants rights to its name and reservation service to owners who apply, qualify and pay the required fees.

The Supreme Court's "discovery" that the Constitution grants rights to business institutions that were not invented until long after the Bill of Rights was written is bad theology, bad politics and an egregious abuse of its proper role.

The law in Virginia is particularly offensive, not only outlawing same-sex marriage but any other form of recognition that grants rights emblematic of marriage to gay and lesbian unions.

Justice Scalia's opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), in which he concludes that the Second Amendment grants rights that are nowhere to be found, either in its text or in far more than a century's worth of Supreme Court precedent, is the strongest recent illustration of this approach.

If the idea of public service appeals to you, you can apply for those grants right now.

Business has often led the way in granting rights to gay and lesbian employees.

Isn't it time we began to make things right by granting rights?

Both oppose gay marriage but argue that the Constitution should grant rights, not restrict them.

In exchange, the company was granted rights to the coal and gas under the park.