Thus a Zimbabwean baby born to parents who had spent years trying to start a family might be named Tendai, which expresses thankfulness, and a child born in a time of troubles may be named Tambudzai, which literally means no rest.
Sallust was born in a time of civil war.
The Book of Common Prayer was born of a time of "War and Tumults".
And Marius was born at a time of giraffe plenitude in Europe.
My aunt was over recently, and she was telling the story of how I was born in a time of lucidity and love between my parents, when there was a small break in the hysteria and confusion.
"60 Minutes" was born at a time of uncertainty for both the nation and the broadcasting industry, which was eager to attract the attention of an increasingly radicalized young audience without unduly upsetting advertisers.
As someone born at a time of widespread consensus that human slavery was one of history's most despicable and shameful practices, I've always been intrigued by the realization that, during the life of my great-great-grandfather, there were a significant number of otherwise intelligent and sensitive white Americans and Europeans who apparently did not see it that way.
Superficially it seems as though he might have been a legend (or at least a different kind of legend) had he not been born at a time of astonishing abundance in West Indies fast bowling, but that was not his fate.
At a September 2000 meeting of the Japan Association of Financial Planners (JAFP) in Yokohama, Walker reminded an overflowing audience that the financial planning profession was born at a time of economic uncertaintydouble-digit rates of inflation and high income taxesand rapidly multiplying investment options.
When I watched the news of the protests in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, I was transported back to a time before I was even born - a time of blatant racism and discrimination.
A mere two years later, our son was born into a time of personal transition.
