Sentence examples for birthright from from inspiring English sources

As it turned out, Jacob, by means of an elaborate double deception, managed to obtain his older brother's birthright from their father.

"Everyone wants a little piece of Coney Island for their backyard," said Charles Denson, the executive director of the Coney Island History Project, which is trying to save the area's birthright from souvenir hunters.

As Benton stared at the weighty birthright from the alte heym, or Old World, bafflement struck: she knew, from an interview she conducted with her family members for a history class, that they fled the German invasion, hid in nearby forests, were interned at multiple labor camps and trekked through miles of often snow-covered forest in the east.

Oscar Micheaux was more than the first black auteur he was an independent filmmaker who worked under the aegis of his own production company, and he made ample use of his artistic freedom in his dozens of silent and talking pictures, including "Birthright," from 1939, in which he dramatizes an extraordinary range of persecutions endured and crises faced daily by black Americans.

Gruffness is his birthright, inherited from a father whose tyrannical strictness became less baffling to Savage as he grew older.

"You try to take that birthright away from us, we're going to have problems," Brownie Tomlinson, a contractor, warned Mr. Hayes.

Heritage / (her tij) / n. / an inheritance; a birthright; something from an ethnic or national culture that is passed down through generations, often in the form of a custom, but it can also be a title or even a fur.

Those investors who still believe 20% annual returns are their birthright moved from equities to hedge funds, which leveraged their $800 billion with derivatives and doubled-up trades.

In 2009, then-Congressmen Deal proposed a bill to repeal birthright citizenship from U.S. born children whose parents are undocumented.

Why, during World War II, did we remove over 100,000 birthright citizens from their homes and detain them in camps?

On Tuesday's "The O'Reilly Factor," O'Reilly challenged key parts of Trump's recent immigration proposal, which includes building "a big, beautiful and powerful wall" on the United States' southern border, deporting undocumented immigrants en masse, and stripping birthright citizenship from their children, whom Trump calls "anchor babies".