Each time a stranger does the right thing, and returns something to its rightful owner, my faith in humanity is restored.
The royal touch often seems an [End Page 129] embarrassing relic of the political and medical ancien régime, something with no rightful place in a world of case histories, chemical cures, and decapitated kings.
The phrase, essentially meaning "to explicitly call something by its rightful name," entered the English language in 1542, and initially had absolutely no racial connotation whatsoever.
Nothing has changed politically for us, but people are now of the belief that armed republicanism is something that is rightful and is something that can be exercised with dignity by an Irishman".
Mitchell Berman has argued that when a coercer threatens to do something, the rightness or wrongness of the use of such a threat to coerce depends on whether it would be rightful or wrongful for that agent to carry through with that threat (Berman 2002).
But the loyalist constituent assembly was established anyway, and the body declared itself the rightful legislature — something the National Assembly still contests.
And good because in taking this approach, Smith goes a long way toward restoring the arid subject of comp lit to its more rightful state, something vital and raw.
My family discriminated against me and denied me my rightful property rights.
Democracy, once optional for many, has assumed its rightful place as something to be cherished, protected and fought over.
Because if fags and burgers are on equal footing in the killing-us-before-our-rightful-time stakes, something has to give.
"If we don't do something to put Oscar Mayer in its rightful place, then shame on us".
