(a.) Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.
Example Sentences:
(1) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(2) The difficulty has been increased with the recent Supreme Court decision which it ruled the Alien Tort Claims Act does not apply outside of the country and dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell.
(3) One of the few Tories who backed him for Speaker says that his increasingly aggressive put-downs of backbenchers have begun to alienate colleagues.
(4) Jackets were frozen for storage and were later thawed and placed on experimental alien lambs.
(5) A year after hiring, many relationships were found, including professional actual situation with job satisfaction (r = 0.26, P less than 0.05) and alienation with job satisfaction (r = -0.33, P less than 0.01).
(6) Less than 2% of humanitarian funds 'go directly to local NGOs' Read more Suggest to her that she’s too outspoken, that her approach is counterproductive and alienates those who are trying to drive change more gently, and she pauses.
(7) It describes issues related to practice, politics, and understanding of a culture alien to them.
(8) She [McSally] has got a lot more fire in her belly than Ron does.” Latino community Some 100 miles north, on the outskirts of Tucson, Barber’s middle-of-the road positioning is beginning to alienate an arguably even more crucial voting block.
(9) And how did Africans respond to Western medicine and its alien institutional social and technological structures and relations?
(10) Extraterrestrials Decades of searching for signs of alien life have so far turned up a blank, yet the question of whether life on Earth is a one-off is among the most compelling in science.
(11) The Beastie Boys alienated their frat-boy fan base with the radical boho stylings of 1989's Paul's Boutique but bought themselves enviable credibility and long-term success in the process.
(12) He was fearless and driven, creating music quickly, and without ever stopping to wonder whether his push for new sounds would alienate his audience."
(13) Every day, as part of routine targeted enforcement operations, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Fugitive Operations teams arrest criminal aliens and other individuals who are in violation of our nation’s immigration laws,” Byrd said in a statement.
(14) David Stubbs Wizards vs Aliens 5.30pm, CBBC New series of Russell T Davies’s drama, full of wizardry and big-league special effects.
(15) It was hypothesized that incarcerated adolescents would have significantly higher levels of isolation, normlessness, powerlessness, and total alienation than would nonincarcerated adolescents.
(16) The episode accelerated a renewed alienation between party activists and the leadership.
(17) Don’t get too hung up on identity issues “The idea of gender fluidity is an alien concept to the vast majority of people, even in Britain.” 4.
(18) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
(19) In this manner the society succeeded in attracting many thousands of workers to its meetings and worked without openly alienating employers, trade unions, the government, or the medical profession--a remarkable feat of diplomacy.
(20) Utilizing the Gottschalk-Gleser verbal behavior scales of Anxiety, Depression, Social Alienation-Personal Disorganization and Cognitive Impairment a significant correlation was revealed between low platelet MAO activity and high Total Anxiety scale and Shame Anxiety subscale scores.
Inalienable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.
Example Sentences:
(1) Universities are losing their sense of public responsibility and social purpose | Peter Scott Read more Ministers will now have the power to revoke the royal charters of many older universities previously regarded as near-inalienable.
(2) She observed soberly that "the moment human beings lacked their own government and had to fall back upon their minimum rights, no authority was left to protect them and no institution was willing to guarantee them … Loss of national rights was identical with loss of human rights … The rights of man, supposedly inalienable, proved to be unenforceable … whenever people appeared who were no longer citizens of any sovereign state."
(3) Merkel delivered her own kind of blow, on the day of his election, stating that cooperation with the US could only exist on the basis of values, which meant respect for the inalienable dignity of mankind, whatever one’s origins or beliefs.
(4) As a result, there's nothing this bogeyman oligarch could actually do to the mountain: it's effectively dually owned, the rich person owns the mountain but the farmers have an inalienable right to the grazing.
(5) Education is not a privilege of the rich and well-to-do; it is the inalienable right of every child.
(6) "The right to enrichment does not need to be recognised because, according to the NPT [nuclear non-proliferation treaty], this right is inalienable," the foreign minister said.
(7) Resolution 4009, sponsored by Republican senator Margaret Sitte, proposes to amend North Dakota's constitution by adding "the inalienable right to life of every human being at any stage of development must be recognized and defended."
(8) This paper examines some of the fundamental issues underlying the 'rights of nurses' in the context of the declaration of a belief in the inalienable rights of all members of society.
(9) Aside from antimicrobiotic therapy, the training of micturition discipline is an inalienable part in preventing urinary tract infections.
(10) The same is true of cats qat: no one should mistake their inalienable right to find cats qat disgusting with a right to interfere with the personal choices and pleasures of others.
(11) Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic energy Agency, IAEA, told Press TV : "These kind of resolutions have not had any effect on prevention of Iran benefiting from its inalienable right under the NPT and the statute of the IAEA".
(12) Since 1996, 18 states have amended their constitutions to establish hunting and fishing as inalienable rights.
(13) And he is part of a growing trend in that country; others have also championed the inalienable rights of all Iranian citizens.
(14) Some have argued that the article in the non-proliferation treaty (NPT) which declares that nothing in the agreement affects the "inalienable right" to "develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes" should be seen as qualifying the right of enrichment.
(15) Clean air and water, and a livable climate are inalienable human rights.
(16) I make that claim because I believe the Russian people, no less than Americans, are endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
(17) It is a weapon Madrid has used before, trying to bully Gibraltar into a sovereignty arrangement that would have us abandon our inalienable status as a self-governing British Overseas Territory and become an unwilling part of Spain,” Picardo wrote in an opinion piece published on the new Politico Europe website just before the UK general elections in May that gave Cameron’s Conservative Party a surprise absolute majority in Westminster.
(18) But she believed in a person's inalienable obligation to society.
(19) As political sovereignty is not transferred to the state, not only are civil rights inalienable but so are political liberties, above all the right to determine and to deliberate laws.
(20) Though he spoke more poetically – some might say obtusely – about immigration, “the family” and climate change, citing his belief in the Golden Rule, Francis said, “This conviction has led me, from the beginning of my ministry, to advocate at different levels for the global abolition of the death penalty.” “I am convinced that this way is the best, since every life is sacred, every human person is endowed with an inalienable dignity, and society can only benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes,” he continued.