• Civil-rights groups claim this Justice offensive is needed to counteract a voting environment in which little has changed since Jim Crow.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Holder's Racial Politics

  • The MP also said the government in Colombo had done little to ensure Rizana Nafeek's legal rights - a claim denied by Sri Lankan government officials.

    BBC: Sri Lankan maid Rizana Nafeek beheaded in Saudi Arabia

  • What human-rights observers fear is that they will claim victims in Colombia for generations to come.

    BBC: Farc rebels have been fighting the government for decades

  • It was surely with this in mind that Russia, in 2001 the first country to submit a continental-shelf claim, made a bid to extend its rights in both the Pacific and the Arctic oceans.

    ECONOMIST: The scramble for the seabed

  • So I took part in the events that led to the collapse of the Ben Ali regime, and that had a tremendous impact on me personally because I saw men and women getting together to claim their rights and do so in a peaceful way - that's why I took the job I have now.

    BBC: Three faces of the new Tunisia

  • For all the human-rights legislation now in place, they would claim, the only genuine guides to international behaviour are still national interest and military power.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of human-rights law

  • In June the court ruled that the federal government could not claim to own coal-bed methane on land where it holds rights over the coal itself but leaves other things to the homesteader.

    ECONOMIST: Energy supplies

  • Federal prosecutors are considering taking on the case as a possible civil-rights violation, and the family have a civil claim against the government for excessive use of force by law-enforcement officials.

    ECONOMIST: The Mexican border

  • Squatters occupying non-residential buildings will still be able to claim "squatter's rights".

    BBC: Q&A: Squatting laws

  • While the feds have yet to officially weigh in on his startup's novel software -- and Janke's certain they will -- others who've tested the peer-to-peer service's new Silent Text app claim its benefits for human rights activism worldwide far outweigh its potential use as a criminal aid.

    ENGADGET

  • Traditionalist Christians claim their rights to freedom of religious conscience have been steadily subordinated to the rights - especially of homosexual people - to equality.

    BBC: Analysis: Milestone left in Christian-secular debate

  • But while Cannata and patent investors like Rembrandt claim to be protecting the rights of inventors, their detractors believe they are simply well-financed patent trolls--a derisive term used to describe companies with no operations other than suing big business over patents.

    FORBES: Patent Payday

  • Well-managed records are the basis for transparency and accountability and can ultimately enable citizens to claim their rights and monitor what their governments are doing.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • WASHINGTON The Supreme Court cited First Amendment free-speech rights in striking down a law that made it a federal crime to falsely claim to have been awarded military medals.

    WSJ: Supreme Court Strikes Down 'Stolen Valor' Law

  • Human rights groups have in the past accused Greek police of heavy-handed tactics - a claim they deny.

    BBC: A mug shot of one of the suspects released by Greek police

  • Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, likes to claim that every voter has a formative political experience: for many black voters, it was the civil-rights era.

    ECONOMIST: Special interests

  • Consequently, outside of Bible-literate Christian communities, today most people are comfortable parroting the totally false Palestinian claim that Jews have no rights to Judea, Samaria or Jerusalem.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel's path to victory

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