Sentence examples for properly theirs from inspiring English sources
Are we more comfortable calling our black and female leaders by their first names because these names are historically all that is properly theirs?
A government minister, for her part, was upset that the firm had used imagery the Maori regard as properly theirs.
Lawmakers argue that the governor has abused his powers over the years, using the descriptions of legislation to change current financing formulas and other laws, a function they maintain is properly theirs.
He has, if his views are rightly understood here, advocated the use of Chinese Nationalist troops because he believes that the war in Asia is more properly theirs than ours and because he thinks that such a war is more properly paid for in Chinese than in American lives.
It was through years of intentional and focused government policy that American Indians were separated from the wealth and resources that were properly theirs.
And finally, the ultimate preventative measure for those of any age is still clean hands – and we shouldn't assume secondary students are washing theirs properly.
Their bodies are theirs and theirs alone.
Their thoughts are theirs.
But it can turn ugly when supporters are encouraged to believe that their own group's innate specialness isn't being properly recognised and that rival groups are getting what's rightfully theirs.
