Sentence examples for rightfully owed from inspiring English sources

Rebekah tells her son Jacob to trick his father, the now elderly Isaac, into giving him a blessing rightfully owed to Esau, Jacob's ever-so-slightly older twin brother.

"If we don't get a satisfactory response, the next step will be to begin proceedings in the courts to recover what is rightfully owed to these passengers, " she says.

Mankamyer told the newspaper she was rightfully owed a "referral fee" from Ward's house purchase because she showed apartments to Ward's wife in Colorado Springs.

"While the Fair Association is receiving tax breaks and preferential tax status, it is also getting out of paying millions that are rightfully owed to L.A. County," she said.

According to Derry, he owned shares in a five-thousand-acre goose farm in Canada, but had been gazumped by his evil plotting brother, Michael, out of all the money rightfully owed to him.

If Maria didn't before, she will now receive a full accounting of every dime Arnold has spent during their 25 years of marriage, so that the attorneys can haggle over what Maria is rightfully owed.

"I have the responsibility to go after the taxes that he rightfully owes to the State of New York, and I intend to pursue it to its fullest".

On November 7, 1816, Jennings encouraged the state legislature to enact laws to prevent "unlawful attempts to seize and carry into bondage persons of color legally entitled to their freedom" while preventing "those who rightfully owe service to the citizens of any other State or Territory, from seeking, within the limits of this state, a refuge from the possession of their lawful owners".

When asked by CNN if she believed his death was a lynching, she said yes. "That's all I've ever asked for: what is due, owed rightfully to me and my family -- justice.

Seeing this slightly built man receive accolades that were long owed and rightfully his was, like The Grass Arena itself, unforgettable.

He added that, given revelations in the independent report released this week that suggest that Mr. Paterno knew about allegations of child abuse involving Mr. Sandusky as far back as 1998, the question over whether the university could rightfully renege on paying the Paterno family what was owed under the August amendments was "complicated," and one that "we haven't looked at".