Sentence examples for were signed away from inspiring English sources

Shami Chakrabarti, of Liberty, said: While it is to Brown's credit that he pleaded with the US on behalf of Gary McKinnon, [Tony] Blair's shame is that the rights of people in Britain were signed away and left to special secret pleadings instead of law.

Those rights were signed away when ​I​ was young and stupid.

Adeka's older brother had been killed in London, ensuring Solomon became chief of the tribe whose lands held massive amounts of oil: as he was an addict, these rights were signed away in favour of Hulbert Linck.

It said African governments were signing away water rights to land investors, who want to profit from water fees and improved agricultural yields and revenues.

Migrants' advocates and congressional Democrats have challenged the idea that large numbers of parents were signing away those rights, contending that some — traumatized by the separations — were misled, did not understand the form or never signed in the first place.

After signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson reportedly said Democrats were "signing away the South for 50 years".

Calls for Care.data to be shelved increased rapidly as people grew twitchy about data security, while Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA served as the ideal backdrop for civil libertarians arguing that citizens were signing away their privacy.

"It's why Congresswoman [Cheri] Bustos and I and Senators [Kirsten] Gillibrand and [Lindsey ] Grahamintroduced our forced arbitration around sexual harassment bill for this exact reason: Workers, without even knowing, were signing away their ability to sue around sexual harassment incidents.

Tatum Bell was signed away from his job selling cellphones at a mall.

After she's signed away her soul, the Devil will give her a small spirit familiar to attend to her.

The great bison herds had disappeared, pushing people to near starvation, and much of the land claimed by the tribes had been signed away in treaties.