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Sentences starting with rights

Rights and privileges from sovereigns smoothed the paths in which we have surpassed others. [10]

Sentences ending with rights

We believe that Woman should associate freely with man, and we believe that it is for the preservation of her rights. [5]
No doubt those who signed the document understood that the second clause limited the first, and that men are created equal only in respect to certain rights. [4]
Others thought there was only a wavering in her affection for her lover, and that he feared for her constancy, and had come to vindicate his rights. [6]
Before the book was half finished those three were taking things almost entirely into their own hands and working the whole tale as a private venture of their own--a tale which they had nothing at all to do with, by rights. [5]
He had given up hope of winning her heart or confidence by storm, and had followed his finer and better instincts-- had come to the point where he made no claims, and even in his own mind stood upon no rights. [11]
You walk carelessly toward the academy grove, where you will find me with a lightning steed, elegantly equipped to bear you off where we shall be joined in wedlock with the first connubial rights. [5]
When she returned to Petersburg both the magnate and the prince were there, and both claimed their rights. [2]
We are out to make the navy better--to get the men their rights. [11]
We don't want to do nothin' to obstruct the war, but we've got to have our rights. [9]
Woman's province in this world is putting things to rights. [4]

Short sentences using rights

Ain't I no rights? [11]
They are our rights. [9]
You've got no rights. [11]
I've got my rights. [11]
Nature asserts her rights. [10]
I have no rights! [11]
We only want our rights. [11]
The Rights of Man! [9]
Woman's Rights, 212, 213. [6]

Sentences containing rights two or more times

In proportion to the defeat of the Austrian army Austria loses its rights, and the rights and the strength of France increase. [2]
Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. [7]
I want my rights, my good, guaranteed rights. [10]
We cannot exceed our own rights without assailing the rights of others. [4]
I've got no legal rights over you, but I have moral rights, and I mean to enforce them. [11]
What amuses me is to find that in an affair of this kind the roads have rights and the strikers have rights, but the public has no rights at all. [8]
He was an implicit believer in that principle of the Declaration of Independence that all men are vested with certain inalienable rights the equal rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [7]
It is to be noticed that rights are mentioned, but not duties, and that if political rights only are meant, political duties are not inculcated as of equal moment. [4]
He thought such a law wrong, but the rights of property resulting must be respected; he would get rid of the odious law, not by violating the rights, but by encouraging the proposition and offering inducements to give it up. [7]

More example sentences with the word rights in them

She said: "If you've done wrong, Si Hawkins, it's a wrong that will shine brighter at the judgment day than the rights that many' a man has done before you. [5]
Can you get your rights now, without obstructing the war? [9]
What rights have you got in Mrs. Byng's letters? [11]
I had my wrongs, and I had my rights, and you were mine by Romany law. [11]
Here the forces would have been fighting for him; the trend was towards the elevation of the standards of living and the wider rights of labour, to the amelioration of hard conditions of life among the poor. [11]
The wise caution with which the Emperor Rudolph avoided interfering with the rights of the Honourable Council afforded old Herr Berthold Vorchtel great satisfaction. [10]
Yet, thoroughly imbued with a reverence for the guaranteed rights of individuals, I was slow to adopt the strong measures which by degrees I have been forced to regard as being within the exceptions of the Constitution, and as indispensable to the public safety. [7]
You have the will, your rights are in your hands. [11]
He is crucified wherever his brothers are slain without cause; he lies buried wherever man, made in his Maker's image, is entombed in ignorance lest he should learn the rights which his Divine Master gave him! [6]
His own books were constantly pirated in Canada, and the rights of foreign authors were not respected in America. [5]
I know him well, and I am sure that though he is cunning indeed, he is full of true veneration, and will righteously establish us in the rights which we have inherited. [10]
You know me well enough to be aware that, like you, I am reluctant to infringe another's rights, that except in case of necessity I am not cruel. [10]
If we die, we die clinging to our tattered rights, and our blood alone shall tell the mournful tale of a murdered daughter and a ruined father. [5]
That is the way it was, so he said, except in the last sad times, when your father, for the sake of Don Carlos and his rights, near lost his life--ah, I can understand that: to stand by the thing you have sworn to! [11]
This good Samaritan was not only taking me into his home, but would fight for my rights with the strong brain that had lifted him out of poverty and obscurity. [9]
Not a topic was broached by Mr. Walpole or Mr. Fox, from the remonstrance of the Archbishop against masquerades and the coming marriage of my Lord Albemarle to the rights and wrongs of Mr. Wilkes, but my lady had her say. [9]
And would have voted the duties ten times over had our rights been respected. [9]
He was called upon to legislate for America and direct her policy when all Europe was the battlefield of contending dynasties, and when the struggle for supremacy imperilled the rights of all neutral nations. [7]
Whereupon he girded up his loins and went forth and preached the word of Jacksonian Democracy in all the farmhouses roundabout, with such effect that Samuel Todd and others were able to talk with some fluency about the rights of American citizens. [9]
They defined with tolerable distinctness in what they did consider all men created equal,--equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [7]
They defined with tolerable distinctness in what respects they did consider all men created equal--equal with "certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [7]
They are going to march on Louisiana and conquer it for the French Republic, for Liberty, Equality--the Rights of Man, anything you like. [9]
But the right to make a pursuit of happiness, given in a fundamental bill of rights, had quite a different aspect. [4]
They are apt to interfere with vested rights and time-hallowed interests. [6]
And they said to him: "This Ching divil comes till Ameriky to take the bread out o' dacent intilligent white men's mouths, and whir they try to defind their rights there's a dale o' fuss made about it. [5]
You are preparing to give your men more privileges, and perhaps more money on the condition that they will renounce rights to which they are entitled as free men. [9]
Is it not to give such constitutional helps to the rights established by that Constitution as may be practically needed? [7]
I was not to be put down, and asked to see some one that had rights to say yes or no. [11]
Was it not time, he said, for people to look about them and see whether "such despotism was founded in Scripture, in reason, in policy, or on the rights of man! [6]
Farrar, after setting things to rights, joined Mrs. Cooke and me over the cabin. [9]
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded. [7]
On returning from their pilgrimage they were to be restored to their rank and estates, and to all their rights, lordships, and privileges. [10]
Under this constitution the State wishes to return to its full allegiance, in the enjoyment of all rights and privileges exercised by the other States under the Federal Constitution. [7]
It was called the Richtberg and nobody lived there except the rabble, executioners, and poor folk who were not granted the rights of citizenship. [10]
Incidents occurring in the progress of our civil war have forced upon my attention the uncertain state of international questions touching the rights of foreigners in this country and of United States citizens abroad. [7]
We simply want the ordinary civil rights, under which we can live and make our way in peace and amity. [4]
He thought that the only effective way of preserving and protecting public rights was for each citizen to do his share in preventing or punishing such infringements of them as came under his personal notice. [5]
The inhabitants of the oasis had for centuries been subject to the Pharaohs, and paid them tribute; and among the rights granted to them in return, no Egyptian soldier might cross their border and territory without their permission. [10]
His argument to the local authorities was that I had no rights, that I am a murderer and a mutineer, and confined to the island, though not on parole. [11]
When Cromwell drove the French from Acadia, he granted great territorial rights to De la Tour, which that thrifty adventurer sold out to one of his co-grantees for L16,000; and he no doubt invested the money in peltry for the London market. [4]
Hence, whoever resists the final decision of the highest judicial tribunal aims a deadly blow at our whole republican system of government--a blow which, if successful, would place all our rights and liberties at the mercy of passion, anarchy, and violence. [7]
In the Homes the battered veterans speak mainly of one thing; and in the monotony of their spent lives develop whimseys and rights and wrongs, patriotic ardors and criticisms on their singular fate, which are original in their character in our society. [4]
He sincerely hopes that your views and your action may so accord with his as to assure all faithful citizens who have been disturbed in their rights of a certain and speedy restoration to them, under the Constitution and the laws. [7]
We profess constantly that we have no more inclination than belief in the power of the government to disturb it; yet we are driven constantly to defend ourselves from the assumption that we are warring upon the rights of the Sates. [7]
Do you wonder that we contend for our rights, tooth and nail? [9]
History shows us that these justifications of the events have no common sense and are all contradictory, as in the case of killing a man as the result of recognizing his rights, and the killing of millions in Russia for the humiliation of England. [2]
The fact is that people in any relations incur mutual obligations, and the world cannot go on without a recognition of duties as well as rights. [4]
If you withhold that necessary legislation for the support of the Constitution and constitutional rights, do you not commit perjury? [7]
Everybody was late that morning, and nothing had got put to rights. [6]
He couldn't realize that he had fallen hopelessly in love without some rights accruing to him for the possession of the object of his passion. [5]
The unions say that capital has rights, bargain with it, but for us there can be only one bargain, complete surrender of the tools to the workers. [9]
We have shown that a farm could not get along without them, and yet their rights are seldom recognized. [4]
He had a tendency to invest money in almost any glittering enterprise that came along, and at this time he was involved in the promotion of a variety of patent rights that brought him no return other than assessment and vexation. [5]
I ain't having sweepings from the streets living here as if they had rights. [11]
I am not surprised to learn that she has become tired of indulgences, and wants some of the original rights. [4]
I have enjoyed sufficient honor now, and shall stand firmly on my rights. [10]
An army has suffered defeat, and at once a people loses its rights in proportion to the severity of the reverse, and if its army suffers a complete defeat the nation is quite subjugated. [2]
He had a sudden spring of new affection--unfelt for those other relations, his by the rights of the law and the gospel. [11]
These politicians are subtle and profound on the rights of minorities. [7]
You ask, in substance, whether I really claim that I may override all the guaranteed rights of individuals, on the plea of conserving the public safety when I may choose to say the public safety requires it. [7]
If they had stuck to their rights and enforced them you wouldn't be trying to trample mine underfoot in this bland way now. [5]
It's an old story," said Mr. Colfax, hotly, "and why the devil did we fight England if it wasn't that every man should have his rights? [9]
See how he stood up for the legal rights of his Master, when the people were for laying hands on him! [6]
If all the States save one should assert the power to drive that one out of the Union, it is presumed the whole class of seceder politicians would at once deny the power and denounce the act as the greatest outrage upon State rights. [7]
His beautiful songs soon procured him the rights of a Lacedaemonian citizen. [10]
Biddy could tell somethin' about what she's seen when she 's been to put his room to rights. [6]
In regard to some governments these rights are at least partially defined by treaties. [7]
If you had so lightly yielded your rights to kiss of mine, you may be certain that I would have appealed to any one who would do my behest to call you to account for such scorn! [10]
Among a hundred, sixty would bear the Spanish yoke, even do violence to conscience, if only their liberties and rights were guaranteed. [10]
Why not sell simultaneous rights, for this once, to the Ladies' Home Journal or Collier's, or both, and recoup yourself?--for I would like to get it to classes that can't afford Harper's. [5]
His mind had seen one thing only, the rights of "Our Man," the wrong that had been done him and his mother; but now he saw how the sword of justice, which he had kept by his hand these many years, would cut both ways. [11]
Look at it, says I --such a hat for me to wear--one of the wealthiest men in this town if I could git my rights. [5]
And was the sacred name of Democracy ever before made to indorse such an enormity against the rights of the people? [7]
I entered this room to give the woman her just rights, and the woman shall have them. [10]
I oughtn't, by rights, to be here fooling with you. [9]
I had my rights, and I had been trampled underfoot by your father--" "By your Chief. [11]
As the Southern Rights politics of the Catherwood family were a matter of note in the city, Stephen did not attempt to conceal his astonishment. [9]
All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guaranties and prohibitions, in the Constitution, that controversies never arise concerning them. [7]
I bought Osgood's rights for $3,000 cash, I have paid Clark $800 and owe him $700 more, which must of course be paid whether I publish or not. [5]
She asserted her rights even over her son, though he was the centre of a web whose threads reached to the furthest circumference of the known world. [10]
You have your rights as a wife until they're denied you. [11]
A good man respects the rights even of brute matter and arbitrary symbols. [6]
They proceed to resolve "that these safeguards of the rights of the citizen against the pretensions of arbitrary power were intended more especially for his protection in times of civil commotion. [7]
You--" Suddenly she relented, seeing the look in his face, and realising that, after all, it was a tribute to herself that she could keep him for four years and rouse him to such fury--"but yes, Abe," she added, "you have some rights. [11]
Behold America, the refuge of the oppressed from everywhere (who can pay fifty dollars' admission)--any one except a Chinaman--standing up for human rights everywhere, even helping China let people in free when she wants to collect fifty dollars upon them. [5]
By rights I reckon we ought to be a couple of years; but we can't. [5]
My pipe was ready and would have been lit, if I had not been lost in thinking about how to banish oppression from this land and restore to all its people their stolen rights and manhood without disobliging anybody. [5]
In a lecture read to the "Woman's Rights Convention" in 1855, he takes bold, and what would then have been considered somewhat advanced, ground in the controversy then and since dividing the community. [6]
Brand us as rascals trying to enrich ourselves with politics, and proclaim yourselves saints nobly striving to get back the rights of the people. [9]
Will it survive rapid transit and bridge and Woman's Rights, the modern novel and modern drama, automobiles, flying machines, and intelligence offices; hotel, apartment, and suburban life, or four homes, or none at all? [9]
Certain rights and privileges for the aristocracy appear to me a means of maintaining that sentiment. [2]
I think it presumption; therefore, if this youthful heart is protected by any of the divine rights, I never will betray my trust. [5]
Why this deliberate pressing out of view the rights of men and the authority of the people? [7]
It is no pleasure to me to triumph over any one, but I give thanks to the Almighty for this evidence of the people's resolution to stand by free government and the rights of humanity. [7]
Sometimes, when the place is left entirely to myself, and the servants who are putting it to rights and, as it were, shifting the scenes, I get a glimpse of the reality of all the pomp and parade of the services. [4]
He had his paternal rights even here--Els and Eva were not parentless orphans. [10]
The newly awakened part of her nature demanded its rights. [10]
There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights. [5]
They must blow out the moral lights around us and extinguish that greatest torch of all which America presents to a benighted world--pointing the way to their rights, their liberties, and their happiness. [7]
Don't mind us--out our way; we possess but one vote apiece, and no rights which you are in any way bound to respect. [5]

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