Sentence examples for purported right from inspiring English sources

When addressing the question of an employee's freedom of speech, the first question to ask is from what law this purported right derives.

No one thought the issue of corporations' purported right to spend money to influence election outcomes was at stake in this case until the Supreme Court so decreed.

"I have flown United before with literally no pants on". A heated debate over charges of sexism in United Airlines' purported right to regulate what female passengers wear aboard flights broke out Sunday on Twitter.

Whether application of this analysis is appropriate with respect to the purported right to presence violation is largely a question of semantics.

(a) Courts may grant qualified immunity on the ground that a purported right was not "clearly established" by prior case law.

Fortunately, the right to equal protection guaranteed by the 14th Amendment won out over the purported right of states to practice segregation.

"Any order that restricts creative expression in favour of promoting the tenuous (at best) purported rights of a single author is simply contrary to the public interest in freedom of expression," wrote the guild, adding that it "seldom" litigates for individual authors, but felt in this case that it was "an important issue for authors generally".

The United States responded by stating that Iran was free to make financial claims against the shah in U.S. courts and further declared that it would support establishing an international commission to investigate purported human rights abuses under the shah's regime; as a precondition of any such actions, however, the hostages would have to be returned.

Although human rights documents and treaties purported to discuss universal rights obligations that applied to all countries, the prevailing wisdom was that the American people did not need human rights standards or international scrutiny to protect their rights.

Our round of treatments ended with audio therapy, which involved listening to a "meta" CD that purported to unite the right and left sides of our brains.

That law, it will be remembered, purported retrospectively to save rights under surrendered charters.