Sentence examples for right to common from inspiring English sources
In both areas studied, pastoralists have to negotiate the right to common grazing on all or part of the areas cultivated by farmers.
He therefore believed that all humans should have the right to common dignity and respect.
Remember, this 4th of July, exercise your constitutional right to common sense.
But the right to share and more generally the "right to commoning" faces significant political and legal threats.
The history that Hyde invokes goes back to the Middle Ages, when villagers enjoyed collective rights to common lands, but for the most part it is situated in the era of the founding fathers.
Below them were the cottars, who often shared rights to common pasture, occupied small portions of land and participated in joint farming as hired labour.
Below the lairds in rural society were a variety of groups, often ill-defined, including yeomen, who were often major landholders, and the husbandmen, who were landholders, followed by cottars and grassmen, who often had only limited rights to common land and pasture.
This month, Viacom agreed to allow a largely symbolic vote to extend voting rights to common-stock shareholders.
Is there any point in nationalising fossil fuels, or is the right to a common stake in a viable future more important?
"Should that assessment indicate that an additional capital buffer is warranted," it continued, the banks could be required to give the government a right to acquire common shares, with voting rights.
In addition, he said, if permitted by the governing documents, the board may be able to suspend a delinquent shareholder's right to use common facilities, including a pool or a garage.
