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Meanings of exercise the right in English

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Usage of exercise the right in English
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I suppose I may exercise the right of inviting a friend to dinner.
Elster's Folly: A Novel
2
He may not exercise the right, but he will not give it up.
A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions o...
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Look at the School Board elections, and see how many exercise the right to vote.
Side Lights
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She was confident 16 year olds would exercise the right to vote if they were allowed.
Radio NZ
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Go exercise the right that a number of them were brutalized and even died to obtain.
Ebony
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The people simply would not take enough interest in their Government to exercise the right of control.
Philip Dru: Administrator; A Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935
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That body being equally divided, he was frequently called upon to exercise the right of casting the controlling vote.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volu...
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He would not only exercise the right kind of authority, but he would exert the right kind of influence.
Sermons on Biblical Characters
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It's not probably our priority because people are entitled to exercise the right to leave school at a certain age.
Radio NZ
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Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote.
Ebony
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Those who exercise the right to peacefully express themselves should not be demonized or ostracized, he said in a statement.
Ebony
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In one locality the franchise was closely restricted, in others every man, however poor, might exercise the right to vote.
Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century
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But we also have no doubt that Tai-hoey would exercise the right of refusing membership to any missionary if necessary.
Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talma...
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If I take him, I will exercise the right of retaliation upon him, for I am determined to have peace.
Marie Antoinette and Her Son
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Their position practically was that a majority of the white population should not exercise the right of giving suffrage to the negro.
Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 / From Lincoln to Garfield, w...
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Jack, I'm glad I'm not buried up there in that Vermont graveyard with nobody to exercise the right of guardianship over you.
The House of a Thousand Candles
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