6 sentences with 'rights'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rights and other words derived from it.
• « Hammurabi's law code went into great detail about the rights and obligations of the Babylonians. »
• « This is all the more surprising because many of the legal rights that Egyptian women possessed were not available to women in Europe (or the United States) until the late 19th century, more than three thousand years later. »
• « Overall, about 40% of the population were native-born Athenians, half of whom were men, and the other half were under 20, so only 10% of the actual population had political rights. This is still a very large percentage by the standards of the ancient world, but it should be seen as an antidote to the idea that the Greeks believed in "equality" in a modern sense. »
• « An important exception to the absence of legal rights for women was that Greek women could initiate divorce, although divorce would only be recognised after a legal process demonstrated that the husband's behaviour was truly reprehensible to Greek sensibilities, and it was a rare case in any case: there is only one known instance in classical Athens of a woman who attempted to initiate divorce. »
• « In practice, by the early third century BC the plebeians had won significant legal rights, namely the right to representation and to legislate, but these victories were often overshadowed by the fact that wealthy plebeians increasingly joined with the existing patricians to create something new: the Roman aristocracy. »