Sentence examples for the rightful inheritance from inspiring English sources

Just as Shiites believe that Sunnis usurped the rightful inheritance of Ali, the Prophet Mohammed's son-in-law and the Shiites' first imam, so now the hard-liners may come to believe that their enemies on Earth have wrested from them the Islamic state that, according to the militants, was the millennarian promise vouchsafed them by the Prophet.

In The Secret Garden, the orphan Mary's rightful inheritance is ultimately herself and the natural world, the ability to speak truth to others and to have it spoken back to her – to live a full life of both the body and the imagination.

Shimon Peres, a former assistant to Ben-Gurion, had always regarded the job as his rightful inheritance and the denial provoked an intense 20-year rivalry.

Now it is Caine playing the old guy and Jude Law is the youngster, ostentatiously entering into what we have to understand to be his rightful inheritance: the coolest Britpopper on the cinematic block.

"If the artist is not to lose much of his ancient purpose, he may have to plunder the popular arts to recover the imagery which is his rightful inheritance," he wrote in 1961.

Since then, she has been trying to claim her rightful inheritance, while shouldering the burden of raising their children with the meagre income she earns tilling other people's land.

Eichmann's son, Dieter Eichmann, demanded that Israel hand over the notes, saying they are his rightful inheritance.

ZimOnline's investigation undermined the central claim behind Mugabe's land reforms: that they are give the majority of black Zimbabweans their rightful inheritance.

Hester, driven from home by the old man, returns as a Johannesburg prostitute desperate to claim the accident compensation that she regards as her rightful inheritance.

It's an historical adventure novel set in Scotland after the Jacobite rising of 1745 and tells the adventures of the recently orphaned sixteen year old David Balfour, as he journeys through the dangerous Scottish Highlands in an attempt to regain his rightful inheritance.

They revel in the South Shore's breeze -- and its world-class beaches -- as their rightful inheritance.