Sentence examples for that is rightful from inspiring English sources

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".

During New Jersey's first week of "Ancestral Voices," George Grizzard and Frances Sternhagen did not wield the box office power that is their rightful claim at this stage of their illustrious careers.

In a voice-over, he speaks palliatively to a citizenry that has been strained by the murderous plottings and counterplottings of the descendants of Atreus, assuring his listeners that they maintain "a civilization and a culture, a set of practices and well-known customs, values and ideals that are the rightful envy of the world".

And if the insurer did pay a policy's proceeds to the Nazi government, would it be obligated to pay again to the family that was the rightful beneficiary?

How have we managed to tell ourselves that we are rightful inheritors of Plato, Aquinas, and Kant, when the stuff of our existence is more Beyoncé and Burger King?

And it's not just in the lyrics that Italo trumps everything that's tried to fill its rightful place at the top of the charts.

Despite the freedom that's come with claiming our rightful place in society, we women have become enslaved by a different form of captivity.

That's his rightful domain, where he sits high on the orange throne.

City striker Mario Balotelli echoed Kompany's sentiments that the club were rightful title winners as he also insisted he would be staying with the Manchester outfit.

If you've done this so many times that the message doesn't go away, you will have to plug the iPod into the computer that was last used to sync it to prove that you are the rightful owner.

Malheur was an odd place for white guys to make a stand in favor of "returning" federal land to its "rightful owners" – that is, themselves.