Sentence examples for is rightful from inspiring English sources

Soft power is used to establish a Finlandised state of mind in the west: Finlandisation is rightful because peaceful.

The initial possession of goods raises questions about subsequent transfers only if the initial possession is rightful rather than merely physical.

"There is rightful disquiet about Sean Fitzgerald's death, and it must be subject to extensive scrutiny.

There is rightful skepticism about the value of this improvisational art because sometimes the medicine works, sometimes it doesn't and, either way, it's impossible to measure.

Nothing has changed politically for us, but people are now of the belief that armed republicanism is something that is rightful and is something that can be exercised with dignity by an Irishman".

It's where a whole political party takes, for the first time, it's rightful place in our parliament".

At the City Hall reception, Mr Livingstone told Poles they were "rightful residents of the capital... Polish Londoners, not outsiders.

These beliefs, obviously opposed, mark our uncertainty about whether we're rightful peers or masters among other entities with brains.

He said the Rirratjingu were rightful landholders and entitled to the royalties, and dismissed the NLC as bureaucracts.

Instead, the "rules are rules" sentiment of the Europeans inflamed an already volatile situation and endorsed the theory of them being rightful losers.

How have we managed to tell ourselves that we are rightful inheritors of Plato, Aquinas, and Kant, when the stuff of our existence is more Beyoncé and Burger King?