own right


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by title vested in yourself or by virtue of qualifications that you have achieved

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For the sake of simplicity, we may ignore the cases in which sensations in their own right form part of the content of a belief, and confine ourselves to images and words.
Full of concern, therefore -- but so conscious of her own right that it seemed scarcely an unequal match between the public on the one side, and a lonely woman, backed by the sympathies of nature, on the other -- Hester Prynne set forth from her solitary cottage.
Cedric, though surprised, and perhaps not altogether agreeably so, at his ward appearing in public on this occasion, hastened to meet her, and to conduct her, with respectful ceremony, to the elevated seat at his own right hand, appropriated to the lady of the mansion.
She seized on her brother's narrative as on property in her own right.
The estate is not large, but all in her own right; whereupon her brother says she shall wed a title, and he and the old knight have fixed it up for to-day."
She is poor, and may naturally seek an alliance which must be advantageous to herself; you know your own rights, and that it is out of my power to prevent your inheriting the family estate.
This will not only lessen the call for military establishments, but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens.
JOHN HARTSON is ready to make his first move into becoming a manager in his own right but is coy about taking over at Livingston.
One of them, Kiko Pangilinan's wife, Sharon Cuneta, isn't just a big star in her own right, but is also the niece of veteran actress and singer Helen Gamboa-who in turn is the wife of reelectionist Sen.
She said: "Tattooers are talented artists in their own right, they just choose to work on skin as opposed to paper.
PUDSEY Bear paid a visit to Green Gates Academy in Stockton to officially celebrate it becoming a school in its own right.
Not quite "a different world" but definitely a place in its own right.
It would appear that he has overlooked the fact that Wales is a country in its own right.