Sentence examples for a birthright that from inspiring English sources

Similarly, we welcomed the Prime Minister's comments in his speech on life chances last week, in which he said: "Culture should never be a privilege; it is a birthright that belongs to us all".

Like Obama, he speaks often about the privilege of being an American and of possessing a birthright that allows the son of a bartender and a maid to become a U.S. senator.

"Paul Robeson," now playing at the Hutensky Theater in Hartford, celebrates the centennial of the birth of one of America's most extraordinary citizens, a birthright that proved to be a heavy burden.

And each of the three relates a quest: the protagonist carries a birthright that's both her glory and her burden, and she must accept her power and learn to use it rightly.

We taught them that everyone deserves a prize regardless of merit, that self-esteem is a birthright that doesn't have to be earned, and that someone will always be there to protect them from character-building adversity.

Though religious practice may deny equality of dignity -- there are, for example, plenty of sexist precepts in the world's holy books much as there are many discarded theories in the world's scientific books -- these same holy books also teach that dignity is a birthright that cannot be annulled by any person, circumstance, institution, or government.

Letting them develop a sense of gender-dictated birthright that will be whisked away from under their noses by high-achieving girls, as surely as the tortoise triumphed over the hare, is a recipe for resentment between the sexes.

They are the leaders of the religious Zionist parties who consider the West Bank not a Palestinian area where Jews once lived, but their God-given birthright that must not be yielded.

It was, one gleans, more than their common Hungarian birthright that accounted for Szigeti's close relationship with Bela Bartok.

But like the visceral struggle over history, land and birthright that has made the lengthy conflict so intractable, this cause for Palestinian rejoicing was a source of deep anguish in Israel.

Throughout the 20th century, it was an American birthright that each generation would live longer than the last.