Sentence examples for paramount right from inspiring English sources

The States continue in the exercise of the power to regulate pilotage subject to the paramount right of the national government.

And now he is dead.The danger that seems paramount right now is not that Taliban fighters will storm out of the hills and retake the country.

At the same time we fully recognize the principle that any inspection law is subject to the paramount right of congress to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states.

For here there is a claim by the United States, admitted by California, that California has invaded the title or paramount right asserted by the United States to a large area of land and that California has converted to its own use oil which was extracted from that land.

It is contended, on the other hand, that this title to submerged lands along navigable waters, and the right of access thereto, are subject to the paramount right of the United States to use this land in such manner as it shall determine to be necessary in aid of navigation.

In the light of the foregoing, our question is whether the state or the Federal Government has the paramount right and power to determine in the first instance when, how, and by what agencies, foreign or domestic, the oil and other resources of the soil of the marginal sea, known or hereafter discovered may be exploited.

We have not now before us the validity of the exercise of any of these paramount rights.

The state merely prevents the owner from making a use which interferes with paramount rights of the public.

The former Labour Foreign Office minister Peter Hain bravely suggested that Britain needed a "diplomatic strategy" which "respects the paramount rights of Gibraltarians but recognises that Spain... has an historic grievance".

The point of diffeence is as to who owns, or has paramount rights in and power over several thousand square miles of land under the ocean off the coast of California.

If this rationale of the Pollard case is a valid basis for a conclusion that paramount rights run to the states in inland waters to the shoreward of the low water mark, the same rationale leads to the conclusion that national interests responsibilities, and therefore national rights are paramount in waters lying to the seaward in the three-mile belt.