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How to use the word inalienable in a Sentence?

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In our hearts, we know Crimea has always been an inalienable part of Russia.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a complete separation from what is right and good, the value of life, and the inalienable right for freedom.

Shane Williamson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.

John Adams

added by Normando
3 years ago

It's very important theologically that communion not be taken alone, what we are doing is exercising our inalienable rights. Communion is non-negotiable for us.

Rob McCoy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant of the people... The Bill of Rights does not grant rights to the people, such that its repeal would legitimately confer upon government the powers otherwise proscribed. The Bill of Rights is the list of the fundamental, inalienable rights, endowed in man by his Creator, that define what it means to be a free and independent people, the rights which must exist to ensure that government governs only with the consent of the people.

Jeffrey R. Snyder

added by Normando
4 years ago

Nowhere in our state Constitution is there a right to the violent act of abortion, instead, our protected inalienable rights include the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Susan Wagle

Found on CNN
5 years ago

No relationship between a colony and the federal government can ever be called ‘successful’ because Puerto Ricans lack certain inalienable rights enjoyed by our fellow Americans in the states. The historical relationship between Puerto Rico and Washington is unfair and unAmerican. It is certainly not a successful relationship, this was the worst natural disaster in our modern history. Our basic infrastructure was devastated, thousands of our people lost their lives and many others still struggle.

Puerto Rico

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This conviction has led me, from the beginning of my ministry, to advocate at different levels for the global abolition of the death penalty, i am convinced that this way is the best, since every life is sacred, every human person is endowed with an inalienable dignity, and society can only benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes.

United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We, sir -- we are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, we truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us.

Brandon Dixon

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our world has a grave social debt toward the poor who lack access to drinking water because they are denied a life consistent with their inalienable dignity.

Pope Francis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

She has decided to switch her voter registration. However, the issue of religious freedom in this case is not a partisan issue. It is neither Republican nor Democrat. It is an inalienable right and what makes America the land of liberty.

Mat Staver

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Every life is sacred, every human person is endowed with an inalienable dignity, and society can only benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes.

Pope Francis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.

William Jennings Bryan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed;

Thomas Jefferson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.

George Jellinek

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

John Ciardi

added by anonymous
14 years ago

What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Dominique de Menil

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Germaine Greer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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