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Rights

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1. Rights

   Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory. Rights are of essential importance in such disciplines as law and ethics, especially theories of justice and deontology. Rights are often considered fundamental to civilization, being regarded as established pillars of society and culture, and the history of social conflicts can be found in the history of each right and its development. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "rights structure the form of governments, the content of laws, and the shape of morality as it is currently perceived." The connection between rights and struggle cannot be overstated — rights are not as much granted or endowed as they are fought for and claimed, and the essence of struggles past and ancient are encoded in the spirit of current concepts of rights and their modern formulations.

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1. rights

   Plural form of the word right.

   The civil rights movement made great changes throughout society.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 7, 2020  

2. rights

   Social, ethical and moral principles, legislation, rules, entitlement or guidelines that empower optimum health, human rights, democracy, right to life, the fasttrack cocreation of socialism, socialist unity government, socialist policies, the fasttrack of building public housing on public land using nationalized construction organizations, free education, unity, stability, redistribution of wealth and resources across a country, freedom and the sharing of income, wealth and time locally, regionally, nationally, europeanlly and internationally for the shared optimum health, human rights, peace, prosperity and freedom of human beings and animals.

   Our rights are simple and easy to create and achieve together as a united humanity and animals.

   Submitted by MaryC on April 4, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Rights' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #751

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Rights' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1437

Anagrams for Rights »

1. girths

How to pronounce Rights?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Rights in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Rights in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Rights in a Sentence

1. Katalin Cseh:

   There is a very clear financial benefit in dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin, especially at the time European money comes with questions about freedoms of media, human rights and corruption, which Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't care about.

2. Osama Abu Irshaid:

   We want the Muslim community to understand that if you give up your rights voluntarily, no one will come and give it back to you.

3. John Kerry:

   We very much welcome Argentina's restoration of its own engagement in politics in so many different issues on energy, on human rights, on environment, on trade.

4. Uhuru Kenyatta:

   I am confident that you will find that there is nothing in this law that goes against the bill of rights or any provision of the constitution... its intent is to protect the lives and property for all the citizens of this Republic.

5. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau:

   There are people who think we should have gone further with this bill, there are people who think we already went too far, making this first step a responsible, prudent one that gets the balance right between protecting vulnerable Canadians and defending rights and freedoms is what we have focused on and I'm confident that we got that balance right.

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