I come from a strong family and believe in a parent's natural presumptive right to raise his or her child as he or she sees fit.

Bhutanese women have traditionally had more rights than men in surrounding cultures, the most prominent being the presumptive right of land ownership.

Journalists need a presumptive right to shield those who speak to them in confidence, and the public needs them to have that right.

By Federal law, cable companies have a presumptive right to renew their municipal franchise agreements, which normally expire every 10 or 15 years.

As soon as they do, however, they are accused of exploiting (and therefore of risking) their presumptive right to public attention.

Parents don't derive their child-rearing authority from school boards or agencies, and those agencies have no presumptive rights to supersede parental discretion.

"The real issue here is that towns have a presumptive right to rezone, and property owners have an obligation to do more than sue and say they were damaged," he said.

Truman would not recognise the PRC, denied its presumptive right to rule Taiwan, and backed GMD bombing campaigns and economic warfare from that island.

Not only does the Times now consider this "presumptive right" to be void, it sees the role of the mass media-in contrast to organizations such as WikiLeaks-as guaranteeing government secrecy.

Ms. Meissner, commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said on NBC's "Today" program this morning that Elian's father had a presumptive right to custody.

And I do realize that I have no presumptive right to follow him on the throne; the Emperor has always had the right to choose his successor from among his blood relatives.

This was Mr. Reagan in 1981 shortly after he became president: "Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does the government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?"

"We believe," the Times declared, "that its more profound significance lies in the implicit but inescapable conclusion that the American people have a presumptive right to be informed of the political decisions of their Government."

Also in 1982, in Keenan v. Superior Court, Schwartzbach persuaded the California Supreme Court to establish the presumptive right of defendants in capital murder cases to have two court-appointed attorneys.

The court's leading precedent on student speech, a 1969 decision called Tinker v. Des Moines School District, "articulates a baseline of political speech" that students have a presumptive right to engage in, Mr. Starr said.

The New York City Council has put the Mayor on the defensive in their battle of the budget, usurped his presumptive right to set the agenda, pinched his managerial prerogatives and forced him to defend the city agencies that are the heart of his power.

To improve it, Congress decreed that the investors with the largest financial losses had a presumptive right to be lead plaintiff, an arrangement that was expected to put powerful, sophisticated institutional investors - like mutual funds, money managers and state and city pension funds - in the driver's seat.