Sentence examples for putative right from inspiring English sources
Many parents are militant in defense of their putative right to discipline their children as they see fit: with a sound thrashing.
If I had to lay blame for this mess on any single conviction, it would be the left's insistence that positive rights, such as the putative right of access to decent health-care, are best secured by a comprehensive system of government guarantees and regulatory supervision.
Certainly, only if a church believed itself to be the true church would it be in a position to exercise its putative right to persecute.
Some feminist writers have also raised the concern that any putative right to procreate threatens to give men power over women.
And that distinction enjoins us to take a stand not, of course, for one form of nationalism over another, but, once again and very simply, for the right of peoples not to be massacred and against the putative right of despots, under cloak of sovereignty, to massacre their people.
The conflict between the putative right of a French Dwarf to be thrown around a nightclub and a view of the public interest as prohibiting such activities even when freely chosen is perhaps an extreme example [ 23].
Yet there appear to be many rights for which the interests of the putative right-holder are not sufficient to hold other person(s) to be under a duty.
And, how do the putative rights of children stand in relation to the rights of those adults who, arguably, have rights over children?
Thinking ethically about children's lives in terms of their putative rights is to misperceive what is of central importance and value in these lives.
Any test must not unfairly disqualify some group of putative rights-holders by, for instance, having a bias in the testing procedure which, in effect, discriminates against that group.
Rather, it is the claim that putative rights and obligations may be enforced through the institutions of government only when they bear a certain relation to the institutions' practice.
