Sentence examples for belonging by from inspiring English sources

Not long ago girls in China were "marked out as belonging" by having their feet bound, while in other parts of the world girls are "marked out as belonging" by having their genitalia mutilated in various ways.

To such a solution the Servians, belonging by religion to the Greek Church, and using the Greek alphabet, are bitterly opposed.

In his anthology Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging (1997), Phillips assembled meditations on belonging by writers born outside Britain, from Thackeray and Orwell to Doris Lessing and Kazuo Ishiguro.

For me, it was more an emotional pull towards family belonging – by the time we married I was pregnant with our second child – than anything to do with conservative morality.

It's a magical sepia world that Tan creates with his potent graphic storytelling ranging from disturbing visions of people fleeing holocaust and genocide to warm family scenes of how a person can feel a sense of hope and belonging by being invited to a table to share food and music.

"The experiment will enable her to cut her carbon footprint and increase her sense of belonging, by encouraging her to seek out and create 'local opportunities' – testing what becomes possible when she invests all her ideas, time and energy within the city where she lives".

Bond is not only the man whose style says he belongs, he is also the man who belongs by virtue of not belonging -- by virtue of his not having even to master the rudiments by which mastery itself is signaled.

10 15 2 WHERE YOU BELONG, by Barbara Taylor Bradford.

Most of us belong by conviction not convention.

All this duly noted, the two artists belong by temperament to different worlds.

They belong — by every stretch of common sense and duty — in a plaza-level museum".