Sentence examples for invoke rights from inspiring English sources

Aside from a veiled threat to invoke rights of eminent domain for California-based power plants owned by external energy companies, I see little but business as usual.

But this only holds true with regard to (3) non-horizontal legal relationships, i.e. direct effect must not allow an individual to invoke rights vis-A-vis another individual.

In response, the producers published on their Web site a road map for writers who might want to invoke rights under federal labor law to keep working during a strike.

Object is understandably concerned that lap-dancing clubs dare invoke rights: it seems wrong that they should provide a rhetorical shield for those whose success represents, in many eyes, movement away from humanity's sunlit uplands.

Each clip reviews specific phrases that immigrants should utter, and particular things they and their loved ones ought to document in order to invoke rights that few are aware they even have.

To this end, he invoked rights that were established when the company was floated, by proposing to put two representatives of his holding company, easyGroup, on the board.

The Government argues, however, that the references to the Fifth Amendment in the instant case were inadequate to invoke the privilege because Fitzpatrick's statements are more reasonably understood as invoking rights under the First Amendment.

But in this case the ACLU was invoking rights in order to overturn the freely expressed will of the residents.Rather like Mr Neuborne, the authors suggest that the ACLU has grown anachronistic.

This is not due to a shortage of material – from stories about victims of crime successfully invoking rights when they are humiliated by the authorities, or more controversially, hedge fund managers invoking human rights to claim back profits – rights are constantly throwing up new issues which, judging by their responses, readers want to debate.

The long-simmering battle became public yesterday, after the authority filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Court asking that Brookfield be barred from continuing to interfere with the authority's plans by invoking rights that "simply do not exist".

The report also invoked "right authority" - authorisation by the UN.