Sentence examples for invoking rights from inspiring English sources

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Affordable Housing Policy: Greenspan also invokes right-wing mythology, which blames the mortgage crisis on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Albukerk said he advised officers that Jose was invoking his rights against self-incrimination and was not to be questioned.

The Supreme Court ruled that suspects invoking their right to remain silent must say so.