Sentence examples for invoking a right from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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?

President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela called Colombia the "Israel of Latin America" saying both countries bombed and invaded neighbors by invoking "a supposed right to defense" that he said was ordered by the United States.

At the same time, as a brief look at debates over the ethics of lead abatement studies shows, invoking a human rights framework raises important questions particularly how to balance practical limits and utopian goals.

Invoking a patient's right to forgo life-sustaining therapies or discontinue them.

The coalition is invoking a special British right on any EU justice and home affairs measures.

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.

Some buyers invoked a contractual right to arbitration.