Word Finder - rightful

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By right; by law.

He is the rightful lord of this country.

Lessing, Goethe, Herder, Novalis and Schleiermacher, not to mention philosophers like Schelling and Hegel, united in recognizing the unique strength and sincerity of Spinoza's thought, and in setting him in his rightful place among the speculative leaders of mankind.

The dogs are returned to their rightful owners in Ramsay Street.

They destroy our souls by removing us from our soul 's only rightful source.

Taking with him Kasagama, the rightful king of Toro, he traversed the north of Ankole, with which country he made a treaty, and passing thence through Unyoro, along the northern slopes of Ruwenzori, reached Kavali at the south end of Lake Albert, defeating the armies of Unyoro who opposed his progress.

As secretary of the treasury (1874-1876) he prosecuted with vigour the so-called "Whisky Ring," the headquarters of which was at St Louis, and which, beginning in 1870 or 1871, had defrauded the Federal government out of a large part of its rightful revenue from the distillation of whisky.

Here we have a first proof of his talent for romancing; for alike to two pilgrims who show him the road and to the huntsmen of Mark's court (whom he instructs in the rightful method of cutting up and disposing the quarry), Tristan invents different, and most detailed, fictions of his land and parentage.

His wife attributed his refusal to cowardice, but it seems from certain passages in his own work that he really regarded it as a crime to revolt against the rightful heir; the only reproach that can be brought against him is that he did not nip the conspiracy in the bud.

On the death of Alexander's daughter, Margaret of Norway (1283), and of his son, the prince of Scotland, without issue, the estates, at Scone, recognized Margaret's infant daughter as rightful successor.

There the Catholic party was strong but for its lack of a leader, and to the English Catholics Mary seemed their rightful queen.

Thus Antiochus entered Egypt as the champion of the rightful king and laid siege to Alexandria, which was held by the usurper.

This conquest of Peloponnesus by the Dorians, commonly called the "Return of the Heraclidae," is represented as the recovery by the descendants of Heracles of the rightful inheritance of their hero ancestor and his sons.

He succeeded in so far that 15,000 Kufians swore to fight with him for the maintenance of the commandments of the Book of God and the Sunna (orthodox tradition) of his Prophet, the discomfiture of the tyrants, the redress of injury, and last, not least, the vindication of the family of the Prophet as the rightful caliphs.

The mines have gone empty, and the women barren since the rightful dhjan bloodline has been cast from the land.

Since then, he'd known nothing but war, been driven by nothing but revenge, fury, and the elusive glimmer of hope that he might one day feel as he had sitting with his mother and sisters on that hill above his rightful home.

Miss Sahili is the rightful beneficiary, and she should remain so.

However, his initial reaction to his daughter-in-law was based on rightful concern for historical family bloodlines.

It therefore appears that the right to talk bollocks has been restored to its rightful place at the center of club priorities.

As the newly hatched baby cuckoo pokes it way out of its shell, it pushes the other eggs out of their rightful nest.

As a result of his actions Niall was granted the union of kingship and Sovereignty being declared the rightful heir.

Who are the rightful heirs of Babylon or the Ottoman Empire?

Emily is a feisty woman fighting for her rightful inheritance.

Martin Edwards, it drones, would like to see " United emerge as the rightful kings of Europe " .

They destroy our souls by removing us from our soul's only rightful source.

In effect the King married his sister or half sister in order to become the rightful ruler.

By adopting the hat of the famous Parthian ruler, Ardashir is declaring himself as the rightful successor to the kingdom of Iran.

The legend of an imprisoned pope, subject to every whim of his gaolers, had nevet- failed to arouse the pity and loosen the purse-strings of the faithful; dangerous innovators and would-be reformers within the church could be compelled to bow before the symbol of the temporal power, and their spirit of submission tested by their readiness to forgo the realization of their aims until the head of the church should be restored to his rightful domain.

In 1805 he was joined by Chaka, otherwise Tshaka (born c. 1783), the son of the Zulu chief Senzangakona; on the latter's death in 1810 .Chaka, through the influence of Dingiswayo, was chosen as ruler of the Ama-Zulu, though not the rightful heir.

On the night of Berte's marriage a slave, Margiste, is substituted for her, and reigns in her place for nine years, at the expiration of which Blanchefleur exposes the deception; whereupon Berte is restored from her refuge in the forest to her rightful place as queen.

Nevertheless the Kentucky legislature on the 22nd of November 1799 reaffirmed in a new resolution the principles it had laid down in the first series, asserting in this new resolution that the state " does now unequivocally declare its attachment to the Union, and to that compact [the Constitution], agreeably to its obvious and real intention, and will be among the last to seek its dissolution," but that " the principle and construction contended for by sundry of the state legislatures, that the General Government is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing [short] of despotism - since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers," " that the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction," and " that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy."

Burgers, the president of the Transvaal in 187 2, endeavoured to replace Montsioa as chief of the Barolong by Moshette, whom he declared to be the rightful ruler and paramount chief of that people.

This breach was widened when Flacius began to make personal attacks on Augustus, to prophesy his speedy downfall, and to incite Duke John Frederick to make an effort to recover his rightful position.

You will be establishing your rightful dominance, but in a positive way.

Once you reclaim this space for its rightful purpose you'll discover that the chi energy suddenly flows better throughout your home.

On the other hand, a wallet can streamline the contents of a purse nicely, keep everything neat and in its rightful place and make life much easier for those who tend to carry heavy loads.

Betty wins her rightful place as a corporate executive and marries her handsome boss.

He or she is the rightful owner of the property and is allowed to legally sell it.

This does not apply to instances when the yacht is used for illegal activity by someone who does not have rightful ownership to the yacht, such as if it is stolen and used for illegal purposes.

The main character is a boy named Tip, who discovers, after meeting a plethora of amusing and/or frightening characters, that he is really a girl disguised as a boy through magic and is Ozma the rightful ruler of Oz.

In the last book of the series, Harry will finally come of age and take his rightful place in the wizarding world, a world he will do anything to protect.

It is eventually Elrond who reforges the sword of Narcil to present to Aragorn, bidding him to take up his rightful place as the King of Gondor.

Aragorn - Aragorn is the heir of Isildur and the rightful ruler of Gondor.

Middle Earth was finally freed from the choke hold of Sauron forever, and Aragorn assumed his rightful place as King of Men with the lovely elf, Arwen Evenstar as his bride.

I'm claiming my rightful place as the Black God, and I'll do it without traitors like you and Jenn at my side.

If the goods were stolen and the rightful owner reclaimed them, he had to prove his purchase by producing the seller and the deed of sale or witnesses to it.

With due solemnity (super majus altare) they swore to withdraw their allegiance from the king and to make war upon him, unless within a stated time he restored to them their rightful laws and liberties.

On the death of her husband a widow must receive her rightful inheritance, without delay or hindrance.

In 1603 - a man calling himself Dimitri, and professing to be Demet- the rightful heir to the throne, appeared in Poland, reuses.

In reality the younger son of Ivan the Terrible had been strangled before his brother's death - by orders, it was said, of Godunov - and the mysterious individual who was impersonating him was an impostor; but he was regarded as the rightful heir by a large section of the population, and immediately after Boris's death in 1605 he made his triumphal entry into Moscow.

The chief con spirator, Shuiski, seized the power and was elected tsar by an Assembly composed of his faction, but neither Shuiski, the ambitious boyars, nor the pillaging Cossacks, nor the German mercenaries were satisfied with the change, and soon a new impostor, likewise calling himself Dimitri, son of Tsar Ivan, came forward as the rightful heir.