Sentence examples for right in action from inspiring English sources

Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP 11.38am BST Great Britain's Michael Sharkey (left) and Niall Graham (right) in action against Lithuania during the Mens's Goalball at the Copper Box, London.

Daniel Cormier (right) in action (Josh Hedges/ Zuffa LLC)   As Johnson had just beaten Alex, who was the number one contender at the time, and Cormier had recently battled the former champion over five rounds, a match between Cormier and Johnson was scheduled to determine a new champion in the absence of Jones.

The Norwegian justice system can seem like a model of universal human rights in action, until you sit in an Oslo courtroom and watch how it deals with Anders Breivik.

The result, "In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action," was more pedagogical than analytical: "A 1987 newspaper poll showed that 59 percent of Americans could not identify the Bill of Rights," the Authors' Note at the front of the book begins.

Leave aside, as an example of clearly enshrined rights in action, the acrimonious procession of divorcing couples and attendant pain-merchants through the courts, and it is clear that legal clarity for cohabitants could protect in particular unwary parents and their children.

Its title is In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action (Morrow, 1991).

Using her skills as an attorney and author, she wrote six books including a legal textbook: In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action as well as the bestsellers -- A Patriot's Handbook and Profiles in Courage for Our Time.

It wasn't a good reason to do a story, but no one was asking and it looked legit: it was 1991, I was the law columnist for The New York Times, and Kennedy had just co-written a book entitled In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action.

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