Sentences with phrase «born illegitimate»

He was born the illegitimate son of a Japanese poet father and an American mother, and struggled with questions of cultural identity throughout his life (his father would not allow him to use his family name in Japan).

Well into the last century, there was a certain stigma attached to being born illegitimate, supported in no small part by the insensitive moniker of «bastard».

Based on the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, this is the story of the infamous Hester Prynne, tried by her own townspeople in colonial Salem and found to be guilty of heinous fornication, adultery and of having born an illegitimate child.

He said that the girl had «done at least two things most «good Christians» would consider wrong: She bore an illegitimate child, then failed to put it up for adoption.»

Ninety - nine percent of mammal species never form lasting pair - bonds, and those that do continue to bear illegitimate offspring — as many as 80 percent of them, in the case of the «monogamous» red fox.

Not exact matches

Again, Disney was born in Chicago to Elias and Flora Disney, and no evidence exists to support his illegitimate birth in Spain.

Nothing was illegitimate about Ismael being born from Hegar.

As for that erosion, recent data from the World Values Survey tells us that only 30 percent of U.S. millennials (i.e., those born after 1980) think it «essential» to live in a democracy; 24 percent of those same millennials think democracy a «bad» or «very bad» way to run a country; and only 19 percent judge it «illegitimate» for the military to take over when the government is incompetent or failing to do its job.

Born in Milan in 1463, Caterina was the illegitimate daughter of the soon - to - be duke of Milan, Galeazzo Maria Sforza.

The «My Goodness» is our response to the enormous increase in the proportion of babies who are born out of wedlock or are illegitimate, terms one uses with embarrassment now but which may still have had some currency in 1965.

Two beautiful sisters — one illegitimate, the other nobly born — compete for love amidst the scandal and intrigue of a Regency London Season.Lissa Hazlett lives life in the shadows.

Because a void marriage has no validity, the children born of the «marriage» are illegitimate and it's as though they were born to single parents.

102 The message of Nasogaluak at para. 32 bears repeating: «Courts must guard against the illegitimate use of power by the police against members of our society, given its grave consequences.»

That was born out of its provision of the services of the canal but over the past 40 years it has established itself as a prime offshore centre providing secrecy and tax benefits (both legitimate and illegitimate) to the world.

In his view, «[t] hose who argue that the notwithstanding clause is somehow illegitimate actually bear the onus of explaining how the rest of the Charter would be legitimate without it».