(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.
Patrimony
Definition:
(n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.
(n.) Formerly, a church estate or endowment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The morphological platelet transformations corresponding to functional attitudes, need of energetic pattern given by the content, in platelets, of enzymatic patrimony.
(2) Such process of "archaeology" seems to be the only suitable to supply us the cipher-key of the ambiguous, shifty character of oxygen, and entrust us with a cultural patrimony being unique as it is spendable in an immediate clinical future.
(3) Pixadores have also tarnished sites that are part of the city’s historic patrimony, including the Ramos de Azevedo fountain in downtown São Paulo.
(4) The foods that constituted the core of the diet of the Americas before 1492--from maize to potatoes, beans to tomatoes, to numerous other fruits and vegetables--became the true patrimony that the inhabitants of the New World bequeathed to humanity.
(5) The struggle reflects a tension over the legitimacy of what Nepalis call 'source force', defined here as the use of patrimonialism within a bureaucratic structure.
(6) Their relation is, therefore, matrimonial and not patrimonial.
(7) The indications found in the examination lead to the conclusion that those who are predisposed to a certain type of delinquency, greater or lesser, (for example, towards crimes against the patrimony, especially if recidivous) continued to commit crimes at the same rhythm, or even in some cases at a greater rhythm, while those who may have fallen only rarely into crime (particularly women) tended to relapse less into crime.
(8) But they expressed surprise that the Holy See’s regulators had not yet made full inspections of either the Vatican ‘bank’ or the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), the department that manages the papacy’s assets.
(9) What occurs if some languages are known since very early childhood, and belong to a pre-symbolic structural patrimony closely bound to bodily sensations and concrete experiences?
(10) By the time the Mail, Telegraph and the rest go to town with mendacious scare stories, every ordinary homeowner will imagine any new wealth tax will steal away their children's patrimony.
(11) It is pointed out the value of the antibodies patrimony in existence in healthy persons, in order to prevent the diseases caused by virus and Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
(12) The Turkish legal team may argue that because the Convention is a living instrument, it should be interpreted in light of current international law including the UNESCO heritage conventions and other Governmental statements about not depriving countries of their cultural patrimony.
(13) "I've sought to take music, which is usually a luxury item, and turn it into cultural patrimony accessible to all".
(14) He had already been suspended from his job as an accountant in the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (Apsa) and, after his arrest, his IOR accounts were ordered to be frozen by the Vatican's promoter of justice .
(15) The subsequent information campaign attempted to adapt its message to each category identified, taking into consideration economic and psychosocial factors, the attachment of the population to its culinary patrimony, and the pejorative vision of dietetics perceived by part of the population.
(16) And if this is at the expense of the patrimony or easy goodwill of others, then so be it.
(17) The new museum is a fusion of this one and patrimony of the School of Medicine and the ancient San Vicente Hospital.
(18) Mennini heads a special unit inside the Vatican called the extraordinary division of APSA – Amministrazione del Patrimonio della Sede Apostolica – which handles the so-called "patrimony of the Holy See".
(19) These organisations would rather spend money with less old-style patrimony and more savvy in the vagaries of modern markets.
(20) The compensation awarded to the victim will consist of an overvalued extra-patrimonial damage which will eventually be able to balance a low physiological deficit price.