Sentence examples for illegitimate status from inspiring English sources

Moreover, says Nozick, if I come to possess something illegitimately and I transfer it to you–even by legitimate means it retains its illegitimate status.

But Snow in Paradise, the feature debut of jobbing editor Andrew Hulme, positively revels in its illegitimate status (bypassed by UK funders; cobbled together on French and German money).

A characteristic of Mateiu Caragiale's life was his search for noble origins, contrasting his illegitimate status.

His illegitimate status and his youth caused some difficulties for him after he succeeded his father, as did the anarchy that plagued the first years of his rule.

Its new aficionados appreciate the outlaw status: the more illegitimate a mezcal is, the more legit it is.

An illegitimate child's status may be changed by a legal action called legitimation, granting him all the rights of legitimate children except that property or money already given to a naturally legitimate child cannot be transferred to a legitimated one who would otherwise have been entitled to part of it.

These genes are given the status IS (illegitimate symbol) and are left for manual consideration.

These genes are also given the status IS (illegitimate symbol) and are left for manual consideration.

His status as an illegitimate child led him to become an apprentice for the sculptor, goldsmith and painter Andrea del Verrocchio at a mere 14 years old.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson deserves to be commended, not taken to task, for his courage in sticking to his calls for investigations and his assertions that George W. Bush's status as president-elect is illegitimate.

The proclamation of Edward IV's children as illegitimate was also reversed, restoring Elizabeth's status to a royal princess.