Sentence examples for invoke a right from inspiring English sources

The United States claims that it did not invoke a right of pre-emptive self-defence in going to war, but acted both under Resolution 1441 and the "continuing authority" of a UN resolution mandating the use of force in the first Gulf war 12 years earlier.

But if the writers are right that many doctors and nurses will invoke a right not to violate their ethical oath on respect for life, how would it increase access to health care to rescind this right and force so many caring professionals out of medicine?

Efforts to outlaw sagging in Virginia and statewide in Louisiana in 2004, failed, usually when opponents invoked a right to self-expression.

Officer Rivera, invoking a right of police officers to remain silent for 48 hours, has not been interviewed about what happened.

They felt it was important while under the huppah to recognize that they were invoking a right denied gay people by every state in the union.

He invoked a higher right, but to be sure, scoundrels on the wrong side of the law always invoke a higher right.' As the new ideas on human rights and humanitarian intervention began to spread, conservatives on the right and left were appalled.

Requiring suspects to invoke a constitutional right by mouthing "magic words," he said, is "unnecessary, unfair, and a rule like that would be unadministrable".

He added that this meant users would not be able to invoke "a general right to be forgotten... against search engine service providers".

But activists say many women are denied access to the procedure when doctors invoke a legal right to decline to perform it on moral or religious grounds.

Copyright holders like movie studios can also invoke a "private right of action" against just about any company that does business with a website that copyright holders believe to be involved in copyright infringement.

An old copyright law stipulated that musicians who released work beginning in 1978 could invoke a "termination rights" clause and regain full ownership over it 35 years later — in other words, starting now.