Like Taiwan's other aboriginal tribes, they have mostly lost their birthright.
Liv Ullmann found the part of Emilie boring and didn't want to play it; Bergman, furious, ostracised her and told her "she'd lost her birthright" (presumably the right to appear in Bergman films).
Evidently, I thought, this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the sky… Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth?
The Meaning of Night describes his attempts to win back the birthright lost to him before he even knew of its existence.
Face it, Moms: somehow we've lost our grip on our birthright.
At the current rate of constructive engagement with New Labour those discordant voices in the Lib Dems which will be heard this weekend fear that their party might sell its birthright, merely to be lost in the crowd in Mr Blair's Big Tent.
After ruling in this case that Wong was born a U.S. citizen despite his Chinese ancestry, the Court went on to state that his birthright citizenship "[had] not been lost or taken away by anything happening since his birth".
If the education of a girl or boy is lost through conflict we have not only deprived them of their birthright, we have denied their generation the chance of development or recovery - and we have robbed an entire society of its chance for a better future.
The N-word apparently loses its stigma and is shouted like a birthright.
We are at risk of losing our values as well, and even the birthright to the pursuit of happiness.
