Example sentences for: human-rights

How can you use “human-rights” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The cover story revisits a favorite Standard topic: China's abysmal human-rights record.

  • The consensus on Jiang's state visit was that it was a "win-win," in the words of Eleanor Clift of The McLaughlin Group . Al Hunt (CNN's Capital Gang ) declared that "Clinton got it right" by simultaneously criticizing China's human-rights violations and toasting the dictator.

  • Its very first sentence throws down the moral gauntlet: "Six months after leading NATO into a 78-day air war campaign to stop 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo and serving notice that it would not let such human-rights atrocities go unchallenged again, the Clinton administration has decided to limit its military role."

  • Both blast the president for coddling China and ignoring its grotesque human-rights violations.

  • USAT , the LAT , and the NYT all judge the talk a human-rights statement, emphasizing Clinton's line that "certain rights are universal" and are "the birthrights of people everywhere."


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