Word Finder - rights

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That which complies with justice, law or reason.

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We're on the side of right in this contest.

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A legal, just or moral entitlement.

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You have no right to go through my personal diary.

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The right side or direction.

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The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.

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The right hand or fist.

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The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.

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The political right holds too much power.

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The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.

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A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).

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To correct.

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Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible.

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To set upright.

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The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.

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To return to normal upright position.

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When the wind died down, the ship righted.

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To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.

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to right the oppressed

You know they believe in national unity and rights for the poor.

Even acknowledging that human rights exist is a great advance of civilization.

An army gains a victory, and at once the rights of the conquering nation have increased to the detriment of the defeated.

These were lands over which, in distinction front the other feudal lands, rights of pasture, cutting of wood, &c. &c., existed.

At least companions have the same rights as spouses without the hassle of marriage.

Violation of the duties of hospitality was likely to provoke the wrath of the gods; but it does not appear that anything beyond this religious sanction existed to guard the rights of a traveller.

In the interval, Douglas's rights in Aberbrothock had been transferred to James Beaton, archbishop of Glasgow, and he was now without title or temporality.

Where these rights have not been conferred, native races are subjects and not citizens.

These rights he retained for over thirty years.

By rights I am a militia officer, but my men are not here.

His brother resigned his rights of succession to his son, and Francis Joseph was proclaimed emperor.

Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man?

Maybe he felt she had equal rights to the money he had accumulated before they were married, but she didn't — especially not now.

The city rights and usages were respected by kings and conquerors alike.

The towns possessed the rights of Magdeburg, or (like Elbing) those of Lubeck; the most important of them soon came to join the Hanseatic League.

Number three was a father taking a son from the boy's mother who held custody rights.

The Netherlanders detested the Spaniards and everything Spanish, and this foreign mercenary force, together with the new bishops, was looked upon as part of a general plan for the gradual overthrow of their rights and liberties.

By it the northern provinces bound themselves together " as if they were one province " to maintain their rights and liberties " with life-blood and goods " against foreign tyranny, and to grant complete freedom of worship and of religious opinion throughout the confederacy.

By a treaty made between Great Britain and Siam in 1902 the northern Malay states of the peninsula were admitted to lie within the Siamese sphere of influence, but by a treaty of 1909 Siam ceded her suzerain rights over the states of Kelantan, Trengganu, Kedah and Perlis to Britain.

Under the leadership of Ethan Allen, Seth Warner and Remember Baker (1737-1775), they refused obedience and took up arms in defence of their rights.

One important variation, however, was a clause in the bill of rights providing for the abolition of slavery, Vermont being the first state in America to take such action.

The same year he was named one of the justices of the peace for his borough; and on the grant of a new charter showed great zeal in defending the rights of the commoners, and succeeded in procuring an alteration in the charter in their favour, exhibiting much warmth of temper during the dispute and being committed to custody by the privy council for angry words spoken against the mayor, for which he afterwards apologized.

He also defended the rights of the commoners of Ely threatened by the "adventurers" who had drained the Great Level, and he was nicknamed afterwards by a royalist newspaper "Lord of the Fens."

The law was ably and justly administered, and Irish trade was admitted to the same privileges as English, enjoying the same rights in foreign and colonial trade; and no attempt was made to subordinate the interests of the former to the latter, which was the policy adopted both before and after Cromwell's time, while the union of Irish and English interests was further recognized by the Irish representation at Westminster in the parliaments of 1654, 1656 and 16J9.

From 1835 to 1838 he edited The Reformation, a radically partisan publication, devoted to free trade and the extreme states' rights theory.

The amelu was a patrician, the man of family, whose birth, marriage and death were registered, of ancestral estates and full civil rights.

Mothers had the same rights in the absence .of the father; even elder brothers when both parents were dead.

But vestals, hierodules, certain palace officials and slaves had no rights over their children and could raise no obstacle.

On Napoleon's deposition, the island was ceded to him with full sovereign rights, and he resided there from the 5th of May 1814 to the 26th of February 1815.

It also expressed willingness that the companies should have rights of way in the streets.

After the consolidation of the companies in1889-1890the profits declined, patent rights had expired, material reductions were made in the rates for telephone services, and considerable replacements of plant became necessary, the cost of which was charged to revenue.

This has been due to speculation, to the unrestricted pasturage of goats, to the rights which many communes have over the forests, and to some extent to excessive taxation, which led the proprietors to cut and sell the trees and then abandon the ground to the Treasury.

The societies require government recognition if they wish to enjoy legal rights.

All the members of the suppressed communities received full exercise of all the ordinary political and civil rights of laymen; and annuities were granted to all those who had taken permanent religious vows prior to the 18th of January 1864.

This donation of Pippin in 756 confirmed the papal see in the protectorate of the Italic party, and conferred upon it sovereign rights.

The Franko-Papal alliance, which conferred a crown on Pippin and sovereign rights upon the see of Rome, held within itself that ideal of mutually Charles supporting papacy and empire which exercised so the iireat powerful an influence in medieval history.

The truth is that no period in Italian history was less really glorious than that which came to a close in 961 by Berengar II.s cession of his rights to Otto the Great.

In Milan the archbishop organizes the hitherto voiceless, defenceless population into a community capable of expressing its needs, and an army ready to maintain its rights.

That cession, renewed after the death of Gregory to his successors, conferred upon the popes indefinite rights, of which they afterwards availed themselves in the consolidation of their temporal power.

He came to supersede self-government by consuls, to deprive the cities of the privilege of making war on their own account and to extort his regalian rights of forage, food and lodging for his armies.

Article 10 extended immunity to ecclesiastics employed by the Holy See, and bestowed upon foreign ecciesiastics in Rome the personal rights of Italian citizens.

By Article 15 the government relinquished its rights to apostolic legation in Sicily, and to theap. pointment of its own nominees to the chief benefices throughout the kingdom.

He opposed the prosecution of Sir John Fenwick, but supported the action taken by members of both Houses in defence of William's rights in the same year.

Ritchie's Natural Rights, from the point of view of a very hostile (evolutionary) idealism, sketches the early history of the phrase Natural Law.'

It became a city with Latin rights in 33 2 B.C. and later a municipium.

Many regard Magna Carta as giving equal rights to all Englishmen.

Green says "The rights which the barons claimed for themselves they claimed for the nation at large."

They get neither political nor civil rights under Magna Carta.

With approved conduct, however, he may be absolutely released after twenty to twenty-five years in the settlement; and throughout that time, though possessing no civil rights, a quasi-judicial procedure controls all punishments inflicted upon him, and he is as secure of obtaining justice as if free.

It received civic rights in 1260.