superior right

No individual or group is given superior rights to control any particular resource.

He had superior rights to the stone over the jeweler.

No one objected to his activity, or came forward to claim superior rights to the manure.

Men use greater privileges and superior rights to create an unequal society that leaves women with little to no power.

The traditionally superior rights of traffic are taken away by permitting walking and playing everywhere.

I do not think I can give the petitioner superior rights.

Boaz accepts, but cautions that there is a family member who has a superior right to her hand in marriage.

You can't counteract that order either by superior urgency or superior right of command.

Cars should not be banned, but instead should be admitted on the residents' terms - that is, slowly and without superior rights.

She imagined that she had superior rights to Grushenka, hence her heckling and resistance.

American typewriters have been recognized in all parts of the world as superior right from the beginning of the United States patents.

He suppressed his unstrung urge to explain to them Bel's superior right, by old valor and love, to survive.

The claim of a superior right to own sexually explicit pictures of children trivializes the First Amendment.

Language is frequently used which seems to imply that the Dutch have some superior right, even in this colony, to their fellow-citizens of British birth.

According to the rabbinate's spokesman, "Israel is a Jewish state and Jews have superior rights.

Patriarchal domination occurs when males use superior rights, privileges and power to create a social order that gives women and men differential gender roles.

It claimed a superior right of salvage based on a "pill bottle" and hull fragment that were said to have been retrieved by Marex.

Doer was quoted as saying, "We believe that the rights of children should be superior rights in our country to the rights of perverts".

The eldest son of a king could have a superior right of inheritance, but still lose the throne to a younger brother, or other junior claimant, possessing greater military support.

The story may simply reflect an attempt to explain the ancient practice of ultimogeniture, whereby the last-born exercised superior rights of inheritance, a practice later replaced by primogeniture.

Despite all the efforts "to make themselves equal to the city in deciding how to run the business," he asserted, the municipality's "superior right" to set rules should trump the will of the Botchman family.

The silk trains had superior rights over all other trains; even passenger trains (including the Royal Train of 1939) would be put in sidings to make the silk trains' trip faster.

However, several of the older families and the poorer Achamnomeri rejected the offer, because the former did not want to be dependent on a king and the latter did not want governors with superior rights.

The final blow to Barbarossa's original plan to restore the Holy Roman Empire, extend it, and give the emperor equal or superior rights to the pope, came when Innocent III became pope.