They have sold their golden birthright of American liberty for a mess of coward's pottage. |
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When we suffer reverses, difficulties, disease or tragedy, we may feel deep down that our birthright as believers has been taken from us. |
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To them it's entirely feasible that being a Yooper is less of a birthright and more of a way of life. |
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Head and shoulders above the other players stood Julius Caesar, a patrician who regarded glory as his birthright. |
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We are all born to this Abba who takes us in regardless of our birthright, race, gender, language, or social status. |
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They see their fight as being a battle to secure a birthright, they are adamant that they will not be denied. |
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Today, good design is the birthright of every citizen, from suburban dads to stereotyped gay men on great TV shows. |
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I was a child of the suburbs, I felt cheated and robbed of my birthright of ease and pleasure. |
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Once mollified, they are possessed once again of that calm which is their birthright, their black gaze deep. |
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A despiser of Western religions, he was an ardent polygamist, convinced that promiscuity was man's natural birthright. |
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For the one got possession of the birthright, and the other transferred the wealth of the Egyptians to the host of the Israelites. |
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A generally accepted tenet of the American dream is that a high-quality education is a birthright. |
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For example, Talmudic law distinguishes individuals by both birthright and ritual purity. |
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Rather, in this character test, Esau has denigrated the birthright and has proven himself unworthy of its privileges and obligations. |
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He reminds the king that he reversed the natural order of birthright when he gave his daughters the crown. |
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Given his feats, birthright, and fortunes, he concludes that he does, in fact, deserve Portia. |
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Titled Esau studies, the group chose that name explicitly to reflect the younger brother's undercutting of the older brother's birthright. |
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If you learn too many other things, then this natural birthright will become almost impossible to remember and relearn. |
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I am a woman, possessing the softness and warmth that is my birthright, and I love what I am. |
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Masterhood, the result of the engaging in the practices that Masters teach, is the birthright of all. |
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In Genesis, Jacob gave Esau, in exchange for his birthright, a meal of red potage, probably a red lentil stew. |
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It is by now, they feel, a simple birthright, as natural as the air they breathe. |
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It returns the heart and mind to its birthright, naturally luminous and free. |
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Every human being has a natural birthright of having access to natural resources such as water. |
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If we are to have a figurehead as the leader of the nation, let it be the people's choice via the ballot box and not someone's birthright. |
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Our American birthright, this ravening resides in our molecules and has from minute one. |
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No matter what their form, they remain the birthright of our children and the generations to come. |
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I have a sense we have sold our birthright for a mess of pottage, which has been the main benefit of unrestrained mass immigration of recent years. |
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It is a bargain of which thousands, like Esau, who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, have repented, but many, unhappily, like Esau, have repented too late. |
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His life changes when an otherworldly crisis forces him to awaken spiritual powers from his long-forgotten birthright. |
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The birthright promises were passed down through Joseph, through his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, but the scepter promises came through Judah. |
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My appeal to all pastors, bishops, reverends and other church leaders, is that they should not sell their birthright to any organisation for the sake of money. |
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Canada and the United States are the only industrialized countries that retain birthright citizenship. |
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Being able to hop on and off the back of an open bus is a Londoner's birthright, he might argue, so get hopping. |
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I believe that it is a violation of the regulatory birthright to adopt this policy. |
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And so the regulators have a legislative birthright, which is the highest source of democratic legitimacy. |
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An elder is still in pursuit of happiness, joy, and pleasure, and her or his birthright to these remains intact. |
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On the opposite side is the contention that access to water is a fundamental human right, and is therefore the birthright of every human being. |
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This Canadian birthright draws to our shores people of all faiths, who in coming, strengthen it all the more. |
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The Conference was opened by the Prime Minister of India, who stated that sanitation should be the birthright of every citizen of South Asia. |
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Restore to them their stolen childhoods, their birthright, which is a taste of heaven. |
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Indeed, it is in times such as these that we must be faithful to our birthright and show our sense of vision. |
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Dissolving negative, harmful patterns leads toward the sense of ease, grace, lightness, freedom and good health that are every human being's natural birthright. |
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For instance, someone born in Britain may be a citizen of that country by birthright, even though his or her parents were not holders of British passports. |
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I cannot sell my birthright, nor am I prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free. |
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I note that the situation is not as simple as he believes and that birthright trips avoid settlements too. |
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Karezza makes a plea for a better birthright for the child, and aims to lead individuals to seek a higher development of themselves through the most sacred relation. |
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They are simply exercising their birthright to worship as they choose. |
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Her eldest son might be kind to trees, or he might be a meddling buffoon who thinks it his birthright to have the rest of us jump to it whenever he shoots his mouth off. |
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We will put a stop to Labour's politics of envy and give to tenants in London what is every other tenant's birthright and reinstate the right to buy. |
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Winning national championships is not their birthright, and everyone's going to survive if Duke were to somehow have a few back-to-back 15-loss seasons. |
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This was our birthright as intellectuals, but to possess it we needed to withstand the terror, loneliness, and isolation inherent in intellectual life. |
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As the sighted child of blind parents Gareth Owens has always regarded the task of translating complexities into simple language as his birthright. |
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In the early history of the United States, common law was viewed as a birthright. |
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The Secretary-General also touched on democracy, asserting that the right of people to choose how they are ruled and who rules them must be the birthright of all. |
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Foreigners playing a foreign music, they couldn't assume it as a national birthright, or absorb it in all its Americentric detail. |
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People born in this country do not give much thought to the preciousness of their birthright in a world in which discrimination and injustice remain rampant. |
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Indeed, I've long believed that Americans would be less resistant to large guest-worker programmes if not for the constitution's birthright citizenship provision, which is why I've toyed with doing away with it. |
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International assistance on its own cannot reduce the misery of the hundreds of millions of absolute poor, nor guarantee their birthright to dignity, security and human rights. |
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At 71, this tall, white-haired figure speaks of his work with energy, enthusiasm and humour, drawing from childhood experience the basic truths of self-sufficiency that he sees as the birthright of every villager. |
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For aboriginals, hunting is seen neither as a specialized occupation nor as an avocation for the privileged, but as the birthright and heritage of every man and woman. |
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Around the world, citizens are demanding responsible and responsive governments that promote justice, equality and democracy as the birthright of all. |
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Bond seems moved by his complicated birthright, while his tough old boss M, played by a queenly Dame Judi Dench, more straightforwardly cites a great English poet as her inspiration. |
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This bond is a natural birthright, realized through emotional attachments. |
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A heritage denied, ignored or distorted leaves a society divorced from reality, its true nature and character still oppressed, still deprived of its birthright. |
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Yet for all of the inauspiciousness of these beginnings, privilege seemed to be Lukin's birthright. |
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The institution of marriage ensures children their birthright to know and be nurtured by a mother and a father in the most stable type of relationship. |
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The choice of colour is every woman's birthright! |
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Some 3.5 million blacks have been evicted or dispossessed from their homes and there are thousands of cases of rural labour tenants who claim a birthright to land covered by legal documents held by white owners. |
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Membership is determined by birthright and by marriage. |
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I agree with that, but I nonetheless think that we must not allow ourselves to be led astray by the Old Testament story of Jacob who sells his birthright for a plate of lentils. |
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Although these provisions under the said paragraphs of article 3 are satisfactory, they do not entitle the children of a Yemeni woman married to a foreigner to enjoy Yemeni nationality as their birthright. |
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It is their birthright to inherit cultures whose central tenets for thousands of years focused on how best to nurture young ones physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. |
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Some foreigners fear that populist politicians, pandering to a belief that the nation is selling its birthright too cheaply, may kill the goose before it has laid any golden eggs. |
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This mysterious purpose explained the commitment to duty and honor that Holmes felt deeply himself, and that he thought was the birthright of a certain class of men. |
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The Norman invasion of Wales began shortly after the Norman conquest of England under William the Conqueror, who believed England to be his birthright. |
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