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单词 right-to-life
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Definition of right-to-life in English:

right-to-life

adjective
  • another term for pro-life
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Consequently, the right-to-life movement, as it was called in the mid-1970s, got a late start.
    • The right-to-life people, often accompanied by clergy, run into the prochoice people with the ‘sensible shoes’ all with large buttons and appropriate slogans.
    • The Terri Schiavo case has pitted left against right and right-to-die supporters against right-to-life advocates.
    • But now they're being fed all this information from these right-to-life activists that's fueling their little flame.
    • ‘Michigan has one of the most active and best funded right-to-life movements,’ said Warren.
    • At least one National MP is an unreconstructed right-to-life fanatic.
    • I assume that he has never seen extremist rhetoric on posters carried by right-to-life protesters, or venomous language in letters to the editor condemning those who oppose the war.
    • Only 40 percent described it as a right-to-life issue, while 54 percent say they considered it a scientific issue.
    • The President's Council on Bioethics is generally thought to consist of a bevy of right-to-life right-wingers.
    • Not that Robertson or anybody else shouldn't defend the right to life. Robertson should be commended for his strong support of right-to-life issues.
    • The human rights and right-to-life activists are trying to stop the production of the Yukon Energy Paste, but so far the company has swayed the masses with their powers of persuasion.
    • The Schindlers have drawn support from conservative Christians, and right-to-life and anti-abortion activists in their struggle to prolong their daughter's life.
    • ‘There is intensity on the right-to-life side and they are the activists and the organizers,’ Green said.
    • Outside it is remarkably subdued given the intensity of emotions here and given the involvement of very active so-called right-to-life groups, but there's been a consensus that the best way to be heard is speak quietly.
    • And there, he said he saw a right-to-life film and that changed his life, he said.
    • Now, in the X case, the right-to-life of the young girl, who was 14, was in direct conflict with the right-to-life of the foetus because she was suicidal and had threatened to commit suicide if her pregnancy were to continue.
    • To seek the votes of the right-to-life caucus by mucking about with the excruciatingly complex and difficult task of reining in world population is as dangerous in its effect as it is tawdry in its motive.
    • Having been raised in an evangelical church, I've heard many a right-to-life rant.
    • In the endless right-to-life debate, compromise is difficult for pro-lifers because the strength of their side of the argument comes from its absolutism.
    • On October 1 a Los Angeles-based right-to-life organization, The Center For Bio-Ethical Reform, filed a federal district court suit claiming that banning aerial advertising violates the First Amendment.

Derivatives

  • right-to-lifer

  • nounˌrʌɪttəˈlʌɪfəˌraɪtˌtəˈlaɪfər
    • The Monitor's editor told me that there are four groups in America that a journalist should be careful not to annoy: the right-to-lifers, the pro-abortionists, the pro-Israeli lobby and the National Rifle Association.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Although there are atheist right-to-lifers, the militant leadership, organization and financial sponsorship of the antiabortion and ‘pro-family’ movements are religious.
      • For years Republicans have scored points off the Democrats for refusing to let an ardent right-to-lifer address the 1992 convention.
      • One doesn't have to be a right-to-lifer to feel squeamish about harvesting organs from a second-trimester fetus.
      • By claiming that abortions take place in dirty facilities and cause such illnesses as depression and breast cancer, right-to-lifers realized they could subtly move the focus of the debate.

Definition of right-to-life in US English:

right-to-life

adjectiveˌraɪtˌtəˈlaɪfˌrītˌtəˈlīf
  • another term for pro-life
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the endless right-to-life debate, compromise is difficult for pro-lifers because the strength of their side of the argument comes from its absolutism.
    • At least one National MP is an unreconstructed right-to-life fanatic.
    • To seek the votes of the right-to-life caucus by mucking about with the excruciatingly complex and difficult task of reining in world population is as dangerous in its effect as it is tawdry in its motive.
    • The human rights and right-to-life activists are trying to stop the production of the Yukon Energy Paste, but so far the company has swayed the masses with their powers of persuasion.
    • The Schindlers have drawn support from conservative Christians, and right-to-life and anti-abortion activists in their struggle to prolong their daughter's life.
    • On October 1 a Los Angeles-based right-to-life organization, The Center For Bio-Ethical Reform, filed a federal district court suit claiming that banning aerial advertising violates the First Amendment.
    • Not that Robertson or anybody else shouldn't defend the right to life. Robertson should be commended for his strong support of right-to-life issues.
    • And there, he said he saw a right-to-life film and that changed his life, he said.
    • ‘Michigan has one of the most active and best funded right-to-life movements,’ said Warren.
    • I assume that he has never seen extremist rhetoric on posters carried by right-to-life protesters, or venomous language in letters to the editor condemning those who oppose the war.
    • Outside it is remarkably subdued given the intensity of emotions here and given the involvement of very active so-called right-to-life groups, but there's been a consensus that the best way to be heard is speak quietly.
    • Now, in the X case, the right-to-life of the young girl, who was 14, was in direct conflict with the right-to-life of the foetus because she was suicidal and had threatened to commit suicide if her pregnancy were to continue.
    • The President's Council on Bioethics is generally thought to consist of a bevy of right-to-life right-wingers.
    • Having been raised in an evangelical church, I've heard many a right-to-life rant.
    • But now they're being fed all this information from these right-to-life activists that's fueling their little flame.
    • ‘There is intensity on the right-to-life side and they are the activists and the organizers,’ Green said.
    • The right-to-life people, often accompanied by clergy, run into the prochoice people with the ‘sensible shoes’ all with large buttons and appropriate slogans.
    • Only 40 percent described it as a right-to-life issue, while 54 percent say they considered it a scientific issue.
    • The Terri Schiavo case has pitted left against right and right-to-die supporters against right-to-life advocates.
    • Consequently, the right-to-life movement, as it was called in the mid-1970s, got a late start.
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