Meanings of assert the rights in English

But they were no less carefully directed at the same time to assert the rights transmitted to them by their ancestors.

Can it be deemed wonderful, that such unhappy creatures should now and then be tempted to assert the rights of nature?

When you learn the duties and the feelings of a father, it will be time enough to assert the rights of one.

The late war, although reluctantly declared by Congress, had become a necessary resort to assert the rights and independence of the nation.

They express, unequivocally, the attachment of the colonists to the mother country; and assert the rights they claim in the earnest language of conviction.

It was, on the contrary, aggressively resolved to assert the rights and the interests of the United States against any suspicion of European aggrandizement.

Let them assert the rights of American citizenship, so that they will be respected as were the rights of citizens of the Roman republic.

It was in this way that the unfortunate Tupac-Amaru died, the last of the Inca race who attempted to assert the rights of his people.

In maintaining these sentiments, Sir, I am but asserting the rights of the people.

They asserted the rights, not of men, but of Englishmen.

It remained communalist only; it merely asserted the rights of the Commune to its full autonomy.

We regard war merely as a means of asserting the rights of a people against aggression.

Lord Palmerston was for asserting the rights and privileges of the Commons, but for avoiding a collision.

The Earl of Chatham warmly applauded him for asserting the rights of the city with weight and spirit.

All that the other could now do was to die asserting the rights of that house to the last.

This they maintained until the restoration of order restored to the house-owners the means of asserting the rights of property.