Sentence examples for have rightful from inspiring English sources

Most sports have rightful provisions for retroactive penalties.

The clearinghouse may have passed on the money to MF Global's trading partners, who would have rightful claims to money from MF Global.

"I believe that the ICC, given the current situation, under the current factual premises that we have, the continued killings, would have rightful jurisdiction," she said.

Though Ms. Norton could have found ways to delay the order, doing so would only have encouraged California to continue its undisciplined and unfair diversion of water to which a half-dozen other states also have rightful claim.

Dewey wrote, "the central problem of philosophy is the relation that exists between the beliefs about the nature of things due to natural science to beliefs about values – using that word to designate whatever is taken to have rightful authority in the direction of conduct".

The question of which nations have rightful claim to the South China Sea is currently under consideration by an international court in The Hague.

ST. LOUIS — A decadelong dispute between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St . Louisand a local Polish parish has taken a big step forward with a state judge's ruling that the parish has rightful control of its assets and property.

Suppose that for some particular object, no one has rightful possession.

A person's domain—"the physical, emotional, psychological, and intellectual space it lives in" (338)—defines the range of matters over which the person has rightful power of consent.

Granted, the black community has rightful ownership of rap and hip hop (along with jazz, blues and soul), because of the origins and social significance of those genres.

8. "Women hold their rightful place at our convention, and women must have their rightful place in the Constitution of the United States.