I have no more right to the name of poet," he once said, "than a maker of mouse-traps has to that of an engineer.
They forget that one has no more right to misuse words than to beat one's wife.
It is a frankly commercial affair, and we have no more right to demand style from those who live by it than from the authors of the weather reports in the newspapers.
For a man has no more right to make himself out worse than he is, than he has to make himself out better than he is.
He is just the same; his heart is not changed; his heart is no more right in the sight of God, or in the sight of any man of common sense either, than it would be if he did the wrong thing, which he loves and dare not do.
Though a citizen, he has no more right to exercise such power or authority than if he were a Hottentot, or an African, or an ape.
There must be some limits to human responsibility, and a man in New England has no more right to interfere with the institutions of Virginia, than he has to interfere with those of England or France.
The people had no more right to renounce that form of government than the children of a family have to resolve themselves into a democracy.
This does not affect Paine's argument, as a Convention could have no more right to bind the future than a Parliament.
Under the charter of justice, he had no more right to inquire into crimes committed by Asiatics in Oude than the Lord President of the Court of Session of Scotland to hold an assize at Exeter.
So I forges Rothschild's name, 'Cause the bloke 'ad no more right to it than me.
So I offs it with 'is missis, 'Cause the bloke 'ad no more right to 'er than me.
He has no more right to make a prize of me than he has to murder me," protested the captain, as he gave the order to hoist the British flag.
Captain Flanger had boasted that he sailed a vessel on a peaceful mission, and that the commander of the Chateaugay had no more rightto capture him than he had to murder him.
It is nomore right to steal apples, than it is to steal money.
It is no more rightto steal apples or watermelons, than [to steal] money.
Right and wrong are not often compared by good writers; though we sometimes see such phrases as more right and more wrong, and such words as rightest and wrongest: "'Tis always in the wrongest sense.
You have no more right to obtrude your conversation upon your wife, nor she upon her husband, when either is in the middle of a thrilling story, than you or she would have to interrupt the Queen of England at her devotions.
Wives have no more right to search their husband's pockets than they have to do the same little service for a distant acquaintance.
The Captain has no more right to visit the Boy's bank for pennies because he is her brother, than she has to abstract money from the grocery-man's till.
They have no more right to take you away from your country, than to eradicate a forest, or to subvert a church in it.
I'm sure I have no more right to be teased over it than you have, Lionel.
I have no more right to interfere with the working of the estate than you have.
He has no more right to instruct himself at such risk, than he has to make two people fight a duel, that he may learn how to defend himself.
On these grounds Pitt insisted that the Prince of Wales had no more right to supply the existing deficiency than any other subject, though he admitted that it was expedient for parliament to offer him the regency.
He also declared that the government had no more right to saddle the charity with twelve old women than with twelve hundred; and he was, therefore, very indignant on the matter.
And congress has no more right to invalidate this mortgage, by a single iota, than it has to invalidate a warranty deed of land.
The government has no more right to claim the ownership of wilderness lands, than it has to claim the ownership of the sunshine, the water, or the atmosphere.
Her father had been christened Vesey, as another man is christened Thomas; and she had no more rightto assume it than would have the daughter of a Mr Josiah Jones to call herself Mrs Josiah Smith, on marrying a man of the latter name.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "more right" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
