Sentence examples for rights under attack from inspiring English sources
"With human rights under attack the world over, the enduring appeal of Harper Lee's great tale gives hope that justice and equality might yet triumph over prejudice," said Chakrabarti, who was also announced as chair of the judging panel for next year's Baileys prize.
The fact that teachers, who are overwhelmingly female, see their salaries at risk and labor rights under attack also makes education a gender equity issue.
With voting rights under attack because of the Supreme Court's decision to remove federal oversight of voting jurisdictions with a history of abuse, the need for direct democracy is even more germane.
Right — reproductive rights are under attack.
"Women's rights are under attack right now.
Our voting rights empower us "to secure these rights" -- and today as voting rights are under attack, we must vow to get them back.
Quoting John Lewis, the Georgia congressman who was beaten in the 1960s while advocating voting rights for blacks, he said those rights are under attack by "a deliberate and systematic attempt" to prevent millions of voters from exercising their constitutional right to engage in democracy.
Mr. Holder quoted with approval a speech by Representative John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and longtime civil rights activist, who recently declared that voting rights were "under attack" in "a deliberate and systematic attempt to prevent millions of elderly voters, young voters, students, minority and low-income voters from exercising their constitutional right to engage in the democratic process".
Earlier this month in Austin, Holder delivered a ringing defense of the right to vote and quoted Congressman John Lewis, who said that voting rights are "under attack … [by] a deliberate and systematic attempt to prevent millions of elderly voters, young voters, students, [and] minority and low-income voters from exercising their constitutional right to engage in the democratic process".
Minority voting rights are under attack.
12.16pm BST Q: Workers' rights are under attack from the government.
