How to Use unalienable in a Sentence
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And that the role of government is above all to secure those unalienable rights.
—Ivo Daalder, Twin Cities, 15 July 2019
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This country was formed for the people, by the people, to protect our unalienable rights.
—Jessica Kwong, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2017
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Each human being is endowed with the unalienable right to life at her creation, not her birth.
—The Editors, National Review, 6 Sep. 2022
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This note was a promise that all men -- yes, black men as well as white men -- would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
—Fox News, 27 Aug. 2013
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Every Californian has an unalienable right to a day at the beach.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2020
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We are endowed with certain unalienable rights and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
—Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
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Rocketman reveals an unalienable truth: Taron Egerton is a star.
—Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 5 Jan. 2020
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But its message of unalienable rights, equality and liberty have echoed through time and across borders.
—Charles Edel, Twin Cities, 7 July 2019
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Murray goes on to say in the ensuing chapter that the nation’s soul is bound up in the founding ideals that affirm we are all created equal, with certain unalienable rights.
—Washington Post, 25 June 2021
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This would be determined by original grants, presumably, since land was to be unalienable, never to be bought or sold.
—Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
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Our nation was founded on the promise that all are created equal and endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.
—George Stanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2020
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The American premise is a theological premise: that all mean are endowed by their Creator — not the state — with certain unalienable rights.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 8 Oct. 2017
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Among conservatives, there is the broad belief that the right to own a weapon for self-defense is every bit as inherent and unalienable as the right to speak freely or practice your religion.
—David French, National Review, 16 Feb. 2018
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The idea those young men and those old men hated was precisely and literally the idea on which this Republic was founded, the idea that any man may claim his equal manhood in this country, his unalienable right.
—Burt Solomon, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2018
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Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
—John McCormack, National Review, 22 Aug. 2020
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From the earliest embryonic stage to the very end of life, each and every human being is a person and a bearer of fundamental dignity and an unalienable right to life.
—Jeff Bradford, National Review, 15 June 2023
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As the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence reminds us, the pursuit of happiness is one of our unalienable rights, alongside life and liberty.
—Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022
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In America, a land where people are supposed to be endowed by unalienable rights, police brutality should never be fodder for applause lines and smiles.
—Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, 30 July 2017
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Equal opportunity and equal treatment under the law anchor these unalienable rights.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2020
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America’s founding document states that the pursuit of happiness is an unalienable right.
—The Atlantic, 13 May 2021
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Along with property rights, religious liberty is the cornerstone of our unalienable rights.
—Michael R. Pompeo, National Review, 23 June 2021
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Clinicians, in defense of our future patients’ lives, need to proactively address the misinformation and empower patients, citizens, politicians and judges to focus on the most unalienable of human rights: the right to live a healthy life.
—Matthew Meyer, Scientific American, 1 July 2022
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Our form of government must navigate the difficult tension between democracy, the idea that governments derive their power from the consent of the governed, and liberalism, the idea that the governed have certain unalienable rights.
—WSJ, 10 May 2022
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The American idea, Parker declared in an 1850 speech, comprised three elements: that all people are created equal, that all possess unalienable rights, and that all should have the opportunity to develop and enjoy those rights.
—Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2017
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Most famously, Thomas Jefferson declared the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right in the Declaration of Independence.
—Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
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The group officially appealed the ruling in September, reasserting their belief that voting is an unalienable right held by all Louisiana citizens, including those on probation and parole.
—Marie Simoneaux, NOLA.com, 31 Oct. 2017
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True security for the American people comes from a world where other societies enjoy those unalienable rights and freedoms that animated our founding principles and permeate our social-political fabric.
—Kelly E. Currie, National Review, 29 Oct. 2020
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Commitment to period-appropriate details — like those shaky yet era-specific natural horns — is an unalienable Haymarket signature.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2022
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