What's the difference between inalienable and unalienable?

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.

Unalienable


Definition:

  • (a.) Inalienable; as, unalienable rights.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The hard part about arguing that abortion is necessary for women’s equality, of course, is that there are still too many people who don’t see women’s pursuit of happiness as an unalienable right.
  • (2) Russia symbolically planted a flag on the seabed under the North Pole in 2007, and on Thursday Putin reiterated that the Arctic was "an unalienable part of the Russian Federation that has been under our sovereignty for a few centuries".
  • (3) All individual human beings have an unalienable right to life and must be granted personhood until a scientific technique which can measure the abstract qualities of humanity is developed.
  • (4) We broke the old aristocracies, declaring ourselves entitled not by bloodline, but endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.
  • (5) What makes us exceptional – what makes us American – is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
  • (6) He proudly recounts an anecdote where he repudiates health – an integral part of the life part of our unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – as a right: “To say it’s a government-granted right means that government is in charge of your health care.
  • (7) Five decades ago today, Americans came to this honored place to lay claim to a promise made at our founding: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
  • (8) The founding principle that “ all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights ” could have led to good healthcare being available to everyone.

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