Sentence examples for reference to rights from inspiring English sources

One difficulty about this kind of theory is to explain our apparent reference to rights when there is no choice, eg when one is not only entitled to vote in elections, but also obliged by law to do so.

The earlier mention of "iffy track record" was a reference to right tackle Khalif Barnes, an eighth-year veteran who has struggled with penalties and mistakes his entire career.

It also contained references to right-wing groups such as the National Front, KKK and BNP, the court heard.

You write that, for all the references to "right-wing Cubans," the reality is far more complicated.

As Professor Randy Barnett has shown, this is a reference to natural rights--rights that we possess by nature, not by grace of government.

abducted by security forces and held incommunicado in secret prisons) non-violent government critics and human rights defenders, Kerry made no reference to human rights violations in his remarks welcoming Minister Shoukry to Washington.

Of the 14 UK interviewees interviewed, five did not make any reference to human rights, and only two mentioned international human rights frameworksc in their response.

If Freud and happiness doesn't sound like a very promising subject, Freud and rights seems even less so (there's only one reference to the rights of man in Freud's work).

Second, Both Iran and Syria suggested that there should have been a specific reference to the rights of states facing occupation to acquire arms, referring to the Palestinians.

Fourth, notwithstanding the reference to human rights in the preamble, there is no articulation of a rights-based approach in the health goal not for lack of effort by many countries.

The non-binding 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights includes a wide range of civil, political; economic, social and cultural rights including a reference to the right to health.