(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.
Blessing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bless
(v. t.) The act of one who blesses.
(v. t.) A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
(v. t.) A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift.
(v. t.) A gift.
(v. t.) Grateful praise or worship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(2) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
(3) I often remind him that after a test or a difficulty, blessings arrive.
(4) The move, first mooted two months ago, has been instigated with Jol's blessing and the new man was quick to insist he had spent "many hours" talking with his compatriot prior to accepting the position, even if his arrival effectively dilutes the manager's powerbase at the club.
(5) Unable to tap international markets, with its banks forced to rely on limited emergency funding provided on a week-by-week basis with the blessing of the ECB, it is fast running out of cash.
(6) The fact that property is unequally distributed so many people don't have blessed "property rights" gets airbrushed from the theory.
(7) Waitrose evokes strong opinions: from sniffy derision about the supermarket's perceived airs and graces to expressions of joy from middle-class incomers when their gentrified area is blessed with a branch.
(8) Photograph: Alex Lake for Observer Food Monthly Sky Sports’ managing director, Barney Francis, added: “We wish Gary all the very best as he returns to football with our blessing and begins his managerial career with Valencia.
(9) May God bless you all, and may God continue to bless America.
(10) It is a sacred moment, and you feel blessed merely to have witnessed it.
(11) He’s gifted, a blessed young man with incredible hand speed and power.
(12) We felt blessed,” said Rebecca, pulling out another family picture in which a smiling Sarah leans her head against her mother’s shoulder, her younger siblings crowing around them.
(13) He often claimed that God had blessed him with the gift of the delayed hangover, one that kicked in only when he had done his day's work.
(14) While big businesses have enjoyed access to new couriers, Royal Mail itself eventually reached such a dire state that the Hooper report urged the government to rewrite the law to clarify that competition was a mixed blessing.
(15) Rate of progression of dementia was determined in 77 patients by repeated administration of the Blessed Dementia Scale (BDS).
(16) For whatever reason, the team is not gelling, despite substantial financial backing in the summer and the dressing room being blessed with a huge amount of quality.
(17) I wish him - with Caroline and the family - every blessing, and hope that the church of England and the Anglican communion will share my pleasure at this appointment and support him with prayer and love."
(18) Meena Raman of the Malaysia-based Third World Network told IPS: "Given the stance of the United States thus far in the Rio+20 negotiations, and the position they have taken in the climate change negotiations in Durban, it may perhaps be a blessing that President Obama is not coming to Rio."
(19) It was an unbelievable feeling,” Keating told Associated Press, adding she felt “totally blessed and loved” by the pope.
(20) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.