Sentence examples for right of former from inspiring English sources

It would also reintroduce the right of former newspaper editors and political peers to sit on the regulator board.

The House of Commons today witnessed a deeply embarrassing defeat for the government on its policy to restrict the right of former Gurkha soldiers to settle in Britain.

MANSOURA, Egypt — Mortada Mansour, the man accused of directing the notorious Battle of the Camel during the Tahrir Square protests in February, came to a courtroom in this provincial city to defend the right of former regime stalwarts to run in the coming parliamentary elections.

Gen. James Longstreet, the Confederate commander who had the temerity to support the rights of former slaves after the war, was excised from the pantheon of Southern heroes.

The A.C.L.U. is also advising lawyers' groups planning to deploy to polling places in November to enforce the rights of former convicts who have restored their voting privileges.

Washington, July 21 , 2010To the Editor: When you speak of the "employment rights of former offenders," do you mean that former offenders have a right not to be discriminated against on that basis?

The primary criminal statute dealing with civil rights violations, 18 U.S.C. § 242, comes out of the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War and was originally intended to protect the voting rights of former slaves.

The U-turn came in advance of an opposition-led Commons debate today that threatened to see a backbench revolt reminiscent of the government's defeat over the rights of former Gurkhas to remain in Britain.

The two men told General Hamdani that Mr. Douri sent them to convey approval of his efforts to regain the jobs and property rights of former officers and to relax prohibitions against Baathists.

Mr. Gonzales wrote in The Washington Post that "the president's order was crafted to provide as much information as possible to the public while also respecting the constitutional rights of former presidents".

Now, some lawyers have taken an unusual approach to challenge the ban: fighting tickets using a law established after the Civil War to protect the rights of former slaves.