Sentence examples for as birthright from inspiring English sources

In either case, you have what has come to be referred to as "birthright citizenship".

The have-nots, particularly teenagers, covet and seek what, by now, the haves assume as birthright and dependency.

But Mr. Graham, speaking on Fox News last week, said it was "a mistake" to allow American-born children of illegal immigrants to become citizens automatically, a practice known as birthright citizenship.

The show is the dramatisation of a struggle between different conceptions of power in a kingdom where even the freest spirit bends his knee to someone: power as birthright, power as holy gift, power as reward for goodness.

While the benevolent Horologists "inherit resurrection as birthright" — they live natural lives and die like normal humans, and then come back as someone else — the sinister Anchorites lack this gift for metempsychosis, and must kill humans, ideally children, in order to drink their blood, or, in the proper lingo, "decant" the victim's soul into "Black Wine," which temporarily staves off aging.

Hunting in Corsica is not only widely accepted and practiced, but revered and respected as birthright and ritual.

It is as much birthright as priority.

Shakira: In countries like mine, education is often seen as a luxury, and not as a birthright, as it should be.

As a dance artist and educator, I am not alone in valuing the importance of creation and expression as a birthright, as important and necessary as sustenance and shelter.

I'm always leery of elected office as a birthright, just as I am leery of it as a sinecure.

He sees his celebrity not as a birthright but as proof that destiny has his same warped sense of humor.