Sentence examples for if not born from inspiring English sources

"Or if not born in my country, then with parents with a big connection with the country.

We even believe that babies have been born up there, or if not born, at least conceived".

However, I got the feeling from talking to the scientists that most do believe psychopaths are, if not born, then made very early in life.

A powerful Congressional committee chairman who seems named, if not born, for this dispute, Mr. Hunter, Republican of California, believes the island's hunt must go on.

Whereas in Europe or America, connections depend on where people grew up or studied, in Israel what counts is the army unit they served in, their rank in the reserves, their degree of religious observance, and especially if not born in Israel their background (those of Russian, Georgian, Central Asian, North African or Middle Eastern descent are particularly tight-knit).

He also readily supported Britain's entry into the European common market, which he saw as posing no threat to an even more important attachment, the Atlantic alliance.That attachment was surely deepened by, if not born of, Alastair's year in America as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow in 1956-57.

But if you were not born a Jew genetically, don't you have that instinct?

If one is not born with a big voice, no amount of training will help.

"The president says that if we're not born here, then they're going to deport us.

If you are not born into wealth to start with, life, for even for the best educated, will be like Jane Eyre without Mr Rochester.

Being adopted into Kabuki is the only way of becoming a Kabuki member if you are not born into it, he explains.