Sentence examples for of foreign birth from inspiring English sources
Like other units raised in New Orleans, many of Wheat's men were of foreign birth.
The contract began in 1998 as an April Fool's joke, given that Mr. Schwarzenegger is of foreign birth and thus prohibited by the Constitution from becoming president.
From 1840 to 1930, the native-born U.S. population increased about 600 percent, while the number of those of foreign birth increased 1,300 percent.
All this takes us to last July, when I was digging in the filing cabinet for Ryan's "registration of foreign birth," the slip of paper that will have to fill in forever for the birth certificate left behind in Seoul.
And this is one of them: the vague — and, as it happens, false — imputation of foreign birth to people who criticize him or thwart his will in any way, as though ethnic difference was itself a smear that need only be hinted at to do its damage.
In 1968, André Malraux — whom Ellison acknowledges as one of his literary "ancestors" — made him a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of the highest formal compliments that France can pay a writer of foreign birth; and in 1969 President Lyndon Johnson awarded him the Medal of Freedom, this nation's highest civilian honor.
A kindly woman confirmed that under the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act of 1956, I could qualify once I'd entered my name in the Registry of Foreign Births and assembled the necessary documents.
But as incomes in China rise and visa hurdles fall, women from China are making up a larger share of foreign births in the U.S, and they're complicating many of the popular ideas about immigrant mothers.
Within each quartile of SEP index, as proportion of foreign-birth in the block group increased, so clustering decreased, perhaps because of higher likelihood of remote TB, or because of decreased stressors as a result of social status, social networks and cohesion [ 36].
One of the few men absolutely trusted by William III, he was nevertheless resented among English politicians because of his foreign birth.
In 1856, a popular Know Nothing candidate for president, George Law, was hoist on his own xenophobic petard when supposed evidence of his foreign birth emerged.
