legal right
Example Sentences
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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
A well-funded brokerage account does not automatically grant someone the legal right to speak for you in an emergency room.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026
Instead it is building a pub, as its licence comes with the legal right to operate an off-sales section.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 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
But the manufacturer had the legal right to appeal and the case was accordingly reviewed by a committee.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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