(n.) Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: AP Without the benefit of a major football program, Villanova’s athletic budget ( $37.5m in 2014 ) pales in comparison to the big state schools that have all but made the national championship their collective birthright.
(2) So of course the Republicans want to deny, if not outright revoke, birthright citizenship to people like me.
(3) It is inconceivable that parliament would have agreed to deprive the Chagossians of this fundamental birthright."
(4) In fact, were television’s Vernon Kay to host an episode of the ITV show Family Fortunes in which 100 people were asked to name British values, humour would probably rank at number two, after democracy and before regarding 40 minutes of unpleasantries about the weather as our birthright.
(5) The former World Bank economist is widely seen as a loyal timeserver, whose priority has been to maintain the Congress grip on power until Rahul Gandhi , a former management consultant still widely seen as yet to prove his political mettle, was ready to take what some see as his birthright.
(6) One of his unshakeable beliefs was that art was for the people, that "beauty was a basic human birthright", MacCarthy said.
(7) He called to build a wall on the US-Mexico border (paid for by Mexico), for an end to birthright citizenship ( “anchor babies” ), and questioned why America should protect Japan if it was attacked.
(8) Let each of us now embrace, with solemn duty and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright.
(9) He used to be for birthright citizenship, now he says he’s against it.
(10) Thus, the golden age means different things to different men, but the very belief in its existence implies the conviction that perfect health and happiness are birthrights of men.
(11) I want the line of my mother and grandmother, that world’s worst birthright of violations, to stop here.
(12) From the the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the origins of the term “anchor babies” (used as “anchor children” to slur Vietnamese-American refugees – those immigrants that the GOP nowadays say came to this country the “right” way), to the present-day, birthright citizenship has always been a battlefield for politicians to try to deny citizenship to the latest non-whites clamoring to become American.
(13) Employers who seek to enforce restrictive covenants to protect their practice areas are asking the court to place on one side of the scales of justice the birthright of a newcomer to engage in the competitive marketplace and to place on the other side the right of the established group to have a public market area reserved exclusively for their benefit by prior claim.
(14) Jeb Bush floats idea at Republican debate Read more They clashed over immigration and birthright citizenship – the right of anyone born in the United Staes to become a citizen, something that has become a controversial issue in the Republican race.
(15) Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine, King's College, London.
(16) Cruz has also embraced an end to birthright citizenship, even though he once stated it was “a mistake” for conservatives to fight the protection of birthright citizenship under the US constitution.
(17) Where once Republicans contemplated whether it was appropriate for any illegal immigrant to be put on a path to citizenship, they are now focused on the merits of mass deportation and ending birthright citizenship.
(18) Fathered by a man who, when his pan-Arab campaign failed, retreated into blaming imperialism for almost everything, they are a motley crew of misfits seemingly desperate to ingratiate themselves with the west, but without internalising enough of its values to forfeit their birthright.
(19) Opponents of birthright citizenship are demonizing us as living, breathing reminders of this nation’s failed immigration policies, and find it so easy to do because we’re not gabachos .
(20) Childbirth charity Birthrights is calling for a reappraisal of how we judge a successful birth: no longer should it be merely about physical health, but about psychological health as well.