1.   These people contend that they have earned the right to the land.

2.   She earned bragging rights for completing the project on time.

3.   Their husbands earn pension rights while they do not.

4.   So you have to earn the right from now on, to have time off.

5.   Although the team brought home the Olympic gold medal, Team USA players have yet to earn the right to call themselves world champions.

6.   And Rubin Carter has earned the right to believe in miracles.

7.   And Stanford earned that beating, or to aim more exactly, Maryland earned the right to administer that beating.

8.   And that tells me Suns guard Kevin Johnson has earned the right to represent his country in an Olympics.

9.   And that would be the next logical step for a coach who has earned the right for a chance.

10.   And when its four excellent actors finally explode into abrupt, revelatory confrontations, they have earned the right to do so.