How to Use bill of rights in a Sentence

bill of rights

noun phrase

• Perhaps more here on the particulars of the bill of rights.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
• And this past summer, New York City became the first city in the nation to pass a homeless bill of rights.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
• Levy became the board chair and vowed to introduce a parents’ bill of rights.
  — Patrick Wall, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• The bill of rights is part of a bill introduced by Hernandez, D-Phoenix.
  — The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
• Rokita's bill of rights touches on all of these topics.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2023
• But Woonsocket argued the bill of rights didn’t apply to the Sosa case because of his plea in Massachusetts.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Hernandez is a group member and spoke about how the members' experiences came to inspire the bill of rights.
  — The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
• The Supreme Court last week affirmed that ruling, finding the city wasn’t entitled to fire Sosa without triggering the police bill of rights.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• In 2021, heiress and media mogul Paris Hilton spoke on Capitol Hill in support of a bill of rights for teenagers in congregate care facilities.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
• My biggest question to state courts is why establish a bill of rights, which is the Bail Reform Act of 1984, and carelessly violate due process?
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 23 May 2024
• Prior to that case, McAllister said, the court had largely treated Kansas’ bill of rights as the equivalent of federal rights.
  — Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• Kelly said that while more regulation is needed, a passenger bill of rights for all airlines is needed.
  — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 24 May 2023
• Kate Hanni, a passenger on that flight, lobbied Congress to pass an extensive passenger bill of rights.
  — Janet Bednarek, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
• Henderson believes a passenger bill of rights needs to be codified, and should include compensation for weather events.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 30 June 2023
• The workers’ bill of rights also urges state officials to protect indoor and outdoor workers from deadly heat and lung-scarring wildfire smoke — threats that are getting worse and worse as temperatures rise with the burning of fossil fuels.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• As a measure of that, the group successfully lobbied Kansas City to pass a tenants bill of rights and an ordinance that prohibits landlords from refusing to accept federal housing vouchers from renters.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
• The new rules come a year after the DOT published the first-ever bill of rights for airline passengers with disabilities, which outlined basic rights like airlines not refusing transportation due to a disability.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
• Utah and Arkansas are among the states that have passed digital privacy laws or bills of rights to limit the use of social media by minors or restrict social media companies’ use of customer information.
  — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
• Last year, the DOT published the first-ever bill of rights for airline passengers with disabilities, which outlined basic rights like airlines not refusing transportation due to a disability.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2023
• The Biden administration announced in January a blueprint for a renters bill of rights and encouraged federal governmental agencies and politicians to help tenants find, afford and stay in housing.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
• In the late eighteenth century, liberal thinkers worried about the despotic state and religious and revolutionary fanaticism and sought freedom through constitutions and bills of rights.
  — Alan S. Kahan, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• Push for a passenger bill of rights In recent decades, consumer advocates and even some lawmakers have sought to enshrine more substantial air passenger protections into federal law.
  — Janet Bednarek, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
• The European Union’s bill of rights explicitly protects citizens’ privacy.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2023
• Among other legislation being considered by the City Council is an immigrant workers’ bill of rights, creating an office of refugee and migrant resettlement and expanding the list of documents that can be used to secure a city identification.
  — Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times, 2 May 2023
• As a result, 75 years later, Israel not only lacks a formal constitution but also has few checks and balances on its government: there is no bill of rights, no presidential veto, no second chamber of Parliament, no federal distribution of power.
  — Yohanan Plesner, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024