Sentence examples for to assert a right from inspiring English sources

People seek to assert a right to control what happens to information they have provided under a legal obligation or given voluntarily but for a specific purpose.

For example, the report said, the lesbian partner of a child's biological mother may, in some circumstances, be able to assert a right to custody or visitation when the relationship between the women ends.

Implicitly, Mr. Bush has agreed to engage the country in a discussion over a fundamental change in America's national security strategy: his doctrine that perilous times have forced the United States to assert a right to launch pre-emptive strikes against any state that could put weapons of mass destruction into the hands of terrorists.

The southern states said they were raising arms to assert a right to rebel against tyrannical government, but they did it on behalf of their power to keep slaves.

Lending support to their belief is the fact that St-Calais never pursued his appeal to Rome, and that later, in 1095, he took the side of the king against Anselm of Canterbury when Anselm tried to assert a right to appeal to Rome.

The American Center for Law and Justice and its affiliates epitomize this new focus on using legal means to assert a right-wing Christian control of society.

Sometimes it has happened with, and sometimes without, the consent of the governments concerned.In 1999 Tony Blair became the first world leader to assert a moral right to "get actively involved in other people's conflicts"—even without leave from the Security Council if it was the only way to stop dire suffering.

Just this year, the district has teetered on the edge of bankruptcy, prompting teachers facing potential payless work days to stage mass protests, and a federal lawsuit is now attempting to assert a constitutional right to literacy – an argument couched in the dismal performance scores of Detroit students.

On the other hand, it seems to me that the NRA is really scraping the bottom of the barrel by trying to assert a constitutional right to gun ownership because everyone involved in the transaction is legally entitled to own a gun.

Benatar argues, for example, that autonomy rights cannot permit risking severe harm to children; those who risk transmitting HIV, for instance, cannot assert a right to reproduce.

In our view, that should be done immediately -- particularly since recently introduced sanctions assert a right to inspect Iranian ships.