Sentence examples for rights measures from inspiring English sources

And Congress is again considering "passenger rights" measures.

Republicans, who make up most of the coalition that controls the Senate, have generally opposed new abortion rights measures.

The Parliament approved a set of human rights measures intended to persuade the European Union to begin membership talks with the country as early as next year.

The rebels have also demanded the adoption of the indigenous rights measures, agreed to in negotiations between the rebels and the government in 1996.

The emir and his cabinet must secure the lead on this issue and take swift steps toward drafting women's rights measures and mobilizing parliamentary acceptance of them.

A former member of the Ku Klux Klan, he filibustered against the 1964 Civil Rights Act only to come to back civil rights measures and Mr. Obama.

A delayed vote on a civil rights measure in 1964 almost killed him.

During this period Cinna enacted economic reforms and began enforcement of the Sulpician voting rights measure.

These press controls are therefore not a violation of press freedom; they are a human rights measure.

But the voting rights measure faced a behind-the-scenes effort by several lawmakers — including Mendelson — to squash it.

Mr. Prevo was among those in the late 1970s who urged George Sullivan to reject the gay rights measure.