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rights

[ rahyts ]

plural noun



adjective

  1. civil rights:

    a rights worker.

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Other Words From

  • anti·rights noun adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of rights1

First recorded in 1955–60

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Example Sentences

These days his birth home and childhood neighborhood in Atlanta are a designated national historical park, and the 45-mile-long path of the voting rights march of 1965 was appointed as the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail.

When the human rights organization Avaaz researched the Facebook pages that were the biggest sources of misinformation on Facebook about the coronavirus through May 2020, at least three of them were known groups that oppose vaccines.

It’s available on tap in Denizens’ tap rooms in Silver Spring and Riverdale Park, and proceeds benefit the voting rights organization Fair Fight.

The Equality Forum is a national and international LGBT civil rights organization with an educational focus.

That very same year, partly in response to Snowden’s leaks, the Brazilian government adopted the Marco Civil—a kind of internet “bill of rights” for its citizens.

Rashad was there to celebrate the release of the Civil Rights drama Selma.

True, this may not be what James Madison had in mind when he was writing the Bill of Rights.

Would the Democrats rescind those rights if they were to return to power?

In October, he traveled to Denver with Fry to support his work with LGBT rights organization The Matthew Sheppard Foundation.

Can they determine that individual citizens should not have access to rights provided by the Constitution?

For example, there is a vast discussion afoot upon the questions that centre upon Property, its rights and its limitations.

And we will also settle and assure the particular rights and interests of every planter and adventurer.

But sharper and closer anxieties than any connected with rights to lands and homes were pressing upon Alessandro and Ramona.

It is therefore our duty, sir, to protect our principal, and we cannot consent to abate one jot or tittle of our rights.

By doing so the natural parents lose all personal rights and are relieved from all legal duties.

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