Sentence examples for imperfect rights from inspiring English sources

He said Egypt was committed to improving its human rights conditions but noted that all countries, even mature democracies, have imperfect rights records.

Strict right and equity, he explains, correspond to Grotius' distinction between perfect and imperfect rights (PW, "Codex Iuris Gentium," p. 172).

While imperfect right now, the concept is wonderfully ambitious.

(DJN IV.4.2) Dominion need not be exclusive, and humans may grant others a perfect or imperfect right over their possessions.

ITQs are, of course, imperfect property rights.

It's an imperfect world, right?

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Crucially whilst perfect obligations correlate with rights, imperfect obligations do not.

Jordan's slick public identity was right for his era; perhaps James's imperfect one is right for his.

Yet O'Neill denies that imperfect obligations correlate with rights.

Nevertheless, at the root of Chavez's career as a civil rights activist, imperfect as it may have been, is a guiding principle that anyone who has spent any time in deep contemplation of the Christian faith may be familiar with -- Matthew 25:40 -- which reads in part, "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me".