Sentence examples for persons entitled from inspiring English sources

The lawyers at Simpson Thacher argued that "the mental, emotional, sociological, and biological characteristics" of Washoe and the other chimps "warrant their treatment as persons" entitled to representation.

Thanks to Justice Field, Mr. Beatty argues, corporations found themselves in the delightful position of being regarded as persons entitled to the protection of the 14th Amendment, the very same amendment originally intended to safeguard the rights of freed slaves.

Of the almost 2,000,000 persons entitled to vote, about 700,000 voted to stay with Germany and 500,000 for unification with Poland; 682 communes declared themselves in favour of joining Poland, and 792 preferred Germany.

At each end of the abri, is an air lock, for 50 persons, with air-and water-tight doors, controlled by a watchman who has telephone and alarm bells and a list of the persons entitled to refuge, the tenants of the building.

So is there any distinction that Congress could draw between corporations and natural human beings for purposes of campaign finance?" "What the Court has said in the First Amendment context... over and over again," Olson replied, "is that corporations are persons entitled to protection under the First Amendment".

Title was treated as passing from the decedent to the bishop or, later, to his substitute (surrogate) and ultimately to a middleman, on whom it was incumbent to pay the debts of the decedent and other claims that might exist against the estate and then to distribute the surplus remaining among the persons entitled thereto under the will or under the rules of intestacy.

The sequential relevancies set by the initial topic solicitation, by which Franco has been positioned as the person entitled to fill an information gap regarding his own personal state, have made the advancement of the activity contingent on his willingness to talk.

In that context, federal officials argued that the fetus should be seen as a person entitled to certain benefits.

As the Immigration and Naturalization Service has maintained, and a federal district court judge has confirmed, Elian's father is the person entitled to speak for the child.

Brian's father had taken it for granted that there would be a formal military funeral, but Brian's designated next of kin — and thus the person entitled to make such a decision — was his mother.

Much of it is of limited value anyway, since items can be registered in the name of any person "entitled" to dispose of them not necessarily the real owner.Even greater secrecy is on offer in Singapore.