(a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
(a.) Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.
(a.) Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true.
(a.) Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.
(a.) Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious.
(a.) According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith.
(a.) Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.
(a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals.
(a.) Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.
(a.) Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth.
(adv.) In a right manner.
(adv.) In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide.
(adv.) Exactly; just.
(adv.) According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.
(adv.) According to any rule of art; correctly.
(adv.) According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right.
(adv.) In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant.
(a.) That which is right or correct.
(a.) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong.
(a.) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.
(a.) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.
(a.) That to which one has a just claim.
(a.) That which one has a natural claim to exact.
(a.) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.
(a.) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership.
(a.) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.
(a.) The right side; the side opposite to the left.
(a.) In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.
(a.) The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
(a.) To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.
(a.) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.
(v. i.) To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.
(v. i.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.
Example Sentences:
(1) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
(2) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
(3) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(4) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
(5) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
(6) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(7) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(8) Joe, meanwhile, defends her right to say "negro" whenever she wants.
(9) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(10) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(11) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(12) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(13) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(14) In this paper, we report the cases of 4 male patients (mean age 32.7 yr) with right-ventricular dysplasia, that occurred in familial form.
(15) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(16) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
(17) After 1 year, anesthesia was induced with chloralose and an electrode catheter placed at the right ventricular apex.
(18) Right orchiectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for embryonal carcinoma had been performed 5 years earlier.
(19) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
(20) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
Suffrage
Definition:
(n.) A vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote.
(n.) Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.
(n.) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.
(n.) A prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed.
(n.) Aid; assistance.
(n.) The right to vote; franchise.
(v. t.) To vote for; to elect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Can the protests, which tried, ultimately without success, to wrestle genuine universal suffrage from Beijing, be called a failure?
(2) This included guaranteeing: independence of the judiciary, the rule of law and our rights and freedoms and, in particular, that we would move steadily towards genuine universal suffrage.
(3) Beijing has promised universal suffrage for elections for the chief executive in 2017 and for the legislature by 2020.
(4) In 1819, the area of Manchester then known as St Peter's Field was the scene of a watershed moment in the struggle for universal suffrage, when around 15 protesters were variously bayoneted, shot and trampled to death in the so-called Peterloo Massacre .
(5) The early suffrage movement wanted to protect women as well as give them a modicum of power.
(6) It also somehow knows that, when I’m at the office, I often listen to Vivaldi concertos on YouTube, that I was (until now) a secret fan of even terrible police procedurals and that I have an interest in – as they term it, but I never have – suffrage, though I’ve neither liked nor posted about any of those things.
(7) Beijing has promised universal suffrage for the election of its chief executive from 2017, but reformers are angry about restrictions that have been imposed on the process, including tight control of candidates by a nomination committee stacked with pro-Beijing loyalists.
(8) It was the first time in the period of mass suffrage that a government had actually increased its majority twice in succession.
(9) Beijing has said it will implement its promise of universal suffrage for the election of the next chief executive in 2017, but protesters say it is “fake” democracy because the candidates will be tightly controlled by a committee stacked with Beijing loyalists.
(10) Wells wasn’t just an African-American civil rights leader, member of the women’s suffrage movement and newspaper editor.
(11) While mainland authorities have promised Hong Kong universal suffrage by 2017 they will only allow a voting system in which they choose the candidates.
(12) The demand on the part of the occupiers when it comes to the constitutional development, especially universal suffrage to elect the chief executive in 2017, is also very clear, so I don’t see any point in resisting the court order.” Protesters have demanded the resignation of Leung and the introduction of civic nominations for elections of the next chief executive in 2017.
(13) Lau reiterated that the framework set out by Beijing for universal suffrage should be followed if Hong Kong wanted electoral reform, the South China Morning Post reported.
(14) Another promise was suffrage, and at the heart of the current movement – called the Umbrella Revolution or Occupy Central – is the demand that Hong Kong residents be allowed to choose Hong Kong’s leaders themselves, instead of having candidates pre-vetted by Beijing.
(15) So that means that our messages, more than ever, need to heard, because there is this delusional element to it all.” She’s right – despite suffrage for women being won almost a century ago, gender inequality remains stubbornly entrenched.
(16) Given the uniform hostility, in a context of recent noises by both senior Liberals and Tories, to the effect that AWSs may have to be introduced if local activists persist in discriminating against women, you can see this developing into a cross-party movement, rather like the old National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, quoted earlier, dedicated to protecting Westminster from further female colonisation.
(17) Acceptance of the law would have meant that slavery remained legal, that homosexuality was a criminal offence and that women were wrong to campaign for universal suffrage.
(18) "But it does seem a shame to use someone who voted against female suffrage to erase the last woman from our currency."
(19) In terms of fostering debate about the nature of our democracy, well, the impact is limited – and yet an attitude of "politics belongs to the experts", a hangover from the days of restricted suffrage, still lingers.
(20) Gradually, I realised that since the 19th century, the labour movement had awakened interest in what earlier generations of workers had done and thought, and campaigns for women’s suffrage had resulted in both chronicles of emancipation and research into the lives of poor women.