How to Use bill of rights in a Sentence

bill of rights

noun phrase
  • Levy became the board chair and vowed to introduce a parents’ bill of rights.
    — Patrick Wall, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
  • On one view, the separation of powers essentially is a bill of rights.
    — Cass Sunstein, Big Think, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The bill of rights is part of a bill introduced by Hernandez, D-Phoenix.
    — The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Hernandez is a group member and spoke about how the members' experiences came to inspire the bill of rights.
    — The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
  • And this past summer, New York City became the first city in the nation to pass a homeless bill of rights.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Kelly said that while more regulation is needed, a passenger bill of rights for all airlines is needed.
    — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 24 May 2023
  • With the Constitution in final form, few had the appetite to haggle over the provisions of a bill of rights.
    — Donald Nieman, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But Woonsocket argued the bill of rights didn’t apply to the Sosa case because of his plea in Massachusetts.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • Many had helped create state constitutions that included pioneering bills of rights.
    — Donald Nieman, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
  • In the convention’s waning days, delegates briefly discussed adding a bill of rights but unanimously decided against it.
    — Donald Nieman, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
  • For some crimes, including serious injury by vehicle, Georgia law includes a bill of rights for victims.
    — Thomas Lake, AJC.com, 4 June 2026
  • The city should publish a renter’s bill of rights for every leaseholder to receive at lease-signing and regular reports on enforcement actions.
    — Cole Hanson, Twin Cities, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Kate Hanni, a passenger on that flight, lobbied Congress to pass an extensive passenger bill of rights.
    — Janet Bednarek, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
  • Henderson believes a passenger bill of rights needs to be codified, and should include compensation for weather events.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 30 June 2023
  • The law expanded protections for to these people under the homeless bill of rights established in 2013.
    — Luke Feeney, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2024
  • For instance, in Madison and Jefferson’s exchanges discussing the need for a bill of rights, freedom of conscience was invariably at the top of the list.
    — Steven K. Green, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2024
  • The state could also follow the lead of New York, where surrogacy agencies must not only be licensed but must adhere to a surrogate bill of rights.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The Supreme Court last week affirmed that ruling, finding the city wasn’t entitled to fire Sosa without triggering the police bill of rights.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • Prior to that case, McAllister said, the court had largely treated Kansas’ bill of rights as the equivalent of federal rights.
    — Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Allred has also gone so far as to oppose a parents' bill of rights that would give people the ability to intervene in their daughters competing and sharing locker rooms with biological males at public schools.
    — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Last session, DeSantis and Ladapo pushed to amend the patients’ bill of rights, a section of state law meant to help with communication between health care providers and patients.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The temporary constitution, declared in March, recognizes a bill of rights, including freedom of belief and opinion and equality before the law.
    — Jerome Drevon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Arizona Women of Action founder Kim Miller pointed to Arizona's law establishing the Parental bill of rights.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • My biggest question to state courts is why establish a bill of rights, which is the Bail Reform Act of 1984, and carelessly violate due process?
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 23 May 2024
  • In 2021, heiress and media mogul Paris Hilton spoke on Capitol Hill in support of a bill of rights for teenagers in congregate care facilities.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
  • In the late eighteenth century, liberal thinkers worried about the despotic state and religious and revolutionary fanaticism and sought freedom through constitutions and bills of rights.
    — Alan S. Kahan, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Push for a passenger bill of rights In recent decades, consumer advocates and even some lawmakers have sought to enshrine more substantial air passenger protections into federal law.
    — Janet Bednarek, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
  • The workers’ bill of rights also urges state officials to protect indoor and outdoor workers from deadly heat and lung-scarring wildfire smoke — threats that are getting worse and worse as temperatures rise with the burning of fossil fuels.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The European Union’s bill of rights explicitly protects citizens’ privacy.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2023
  • Utah and Arkansas are among the states that have passed digital privacy laws or bills of rights to limit the use of social media by minors or restrict social media companies’ use of customer information.
    — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024

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