legal right
Example Sentences
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Should I exercise my legal right and keep $50,000?
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
This fight isn’t over whether donors have a legal right to require grants and specify recipients, because they don’t.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Hezbollah, for its turn, condemned the attacks, adding in a statement that it had the “natural and legal right to resist occupation and respond to its attacks.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
He added that West has a "legal right to come into the country and to perform in this country".
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
Neither Mayor Clarkson nor the Guardians had the legal right to take control of Bush Hill.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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