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  • A woman responding to a survey about the experience of illegitimates in 1986 said that her mother ‘was put in an orphanage and did not get full knowledge about her parents until she was 55.’
  • Her illegitimate position has rendered her wraithlike and insubstantial, almost disembodied.
  • Must be illegitimate - election, what election, he "lucked" into job. Is That Legal?: "Aryanization" and the Question of German "Coercion"
  • That the woman has been forced to forgo her rights and the fact that the relationship is shrouded in secreecy render misyar marriage totally illegitimate. Arabnews - frontpage
  • In 1533, the first Henrician Act of Succession had reaffirmed the ruling of the Church of England that she was illegitimate. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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  • I have looked at it and I have seen a bigger rise in Ireland, where there is no gay marriage and illegitimate children.
  • A port operator shall not make a monopoly of the operation or conduct illegitimate competition and shall not by any means compel another person to accept the port services he provides.
  • This, as may be imagined, made her husband no less desirous of a separation than herself, and he prosecuted his design in the most effectual manner: for he applied, not to the ecclesiastical courts for a divorce, but to the Parliament for an Act by which his marriage might be dissolved, the nuptial contract annulled, and the children of his wife illegitimated. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
  • There are illegitimate children over the years, accusations of collusion with Nazis, shadowy tales of unrequited longing and profound unfairness.
  • It is here that government is most likely to be acting on the basis of illegitimate considerations such as self-protection, or protection of powerful private groups.
  • A candleholder that looked like the illegitimate offspring of a horse and a dachshund Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
  • Any use of military force that aims at conquest of territory, alteration of borders, interference on one side or the other of a civil war is illegitimate.
  • Again, he vows to do penance by marrying Elizabeth and accepting her illegitimate son.
  • It aims to block domestic usurpers or foreign aggressors from establishing illegitimate rule over the attacked society.
  • It is the destruction of the Al Qaeda network and terrorist organizations with global reach, and, in the case of Afghanistan, the taking asunder -- that, sir, maybe that, asunder, that is not quite as good as eviscerate -- but it has to do with taking down this illegitimate government of the Taliban that provides harbor to Al Qaeda. CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2001
  • Sexual harassment in the workplace is an illegitimate exercise of power.
  • Click fraud is the practice of adulterating pay-per-click advertising statistics by generating illegitimate hits.
  • an illegitimate seizure of power
  • China is ruled by an illegitimate communist oligarchy which wants to develop the country commercially while maintaining political control.
  • Their authority is fundamentally illegitimate to begin with, meaning defiance carries no moral ambiguity, even if the physical consequences for the defier are deadly.
  • They think there is something illegitimate about anyone on the public payroll making open and passionate professions of their faith.
  • It is only prudent to renounce what is transitory and illegitimate for that is what is permanent and sublime.
  • The Baroness had been humiliated publicly for years by Erik's mother Frieda over Erik being the illegitimate son of the late Baron Otto. SHARDS OF A BROKEN CROWN
  • He should have got one suggesting Lettie was Miss Holloway's illegitimate daughter. WEEKEND FOR MURDER
  • The amendment was designed to control the sale of illegitimate products invented by quack doctors.
  • For instance, although much working-class history has emphasized the importance of the mother, the experience of illegitimates makes it dear just how crucial the relationship with the father was for children.
  • It comes as quite a shock to still hear a judge describing a child as 'illegitimate', with all the pejorative overtones of that word.
  • It is a forgone conclusion that Netanyahu's preconditions -- Palestinian recognition of Israel as a "Jewish state," "demilitarization" of the prospective Palestinian less-than-a-sovereign state and preserving Israel 's illegitimate "right" to expand its illegal colonial Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories -- will fare worse than Sharon 's conditions. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Jesus was a man, of illegitimate birth, of a benevolent heart, and an enthusiastic mind, who set out without pretensions of divinity, ended in believing them, and was punished capitally for sedition by being gibbeted according to the Roman law. Global Democracy and the Rise of the King of Darkness
  • He was shocked to see what was becoming of a legitimate newsbeat, that it was becoming illegitimate through the deeds of these other publications. CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2007
  • During the campaign, he was confronted by a man who spoke loosely and negligently of illegitimate children and the welfare system.
  • In 1953, as Arthur lay on his deathbed, Comtessa Dialta claims he promised his illegitimate daughter, Liana, a portion of his estate.
  • We can challenge illegitimate corporate authority.
  • Infamous security breacher John Hirst aka Jail House points to an excitable Independent scoop with an illegitimate Tory fundraiser getting the run of the corridors of power. Houses of Parliament: Tory Bloggers Making Passes
  • In his responsum, Radbaz wrote that Simhah “exaggerated on the measures to be taken when writing that [the wifebeater] should be forced by non-Jews (akum) to divorce his wife ... because [if she remarries] this could result in the offspring [of the illegal marriage, according to Radbaz] being declared illegitimate (mamzer)” (part 4, 157). Wifebeating in Jewish Tradition.
  • The main need for adoption arises in connection with orphans and illegitimate children.
  • Since the 16th century the Perrots had lorded it over Pembrokeshire, the grandest of them the giant Sir John, the viceroy of Ireland, said to have been the illegitimate son of Henry VIII.
  • The question of demarking legitimate from illegitimate bodies is not a recent phenomenon.
  • Culture will specify the relations that exist within the organisation and define what is to count as legitimate or illegitimate behaviour.
  • This is a discouragement to States from using the qualifications contained, for example, in Arts 8-11 for illegitimate purposes.
  • The family nanny bore Peter's illegitimate child.
  • Similar incidents carrying apprehension (as Lord Macaulay would say) to the breezy interiors of a thousand shanties on the same fatal morning, the domestic circle would know no name so expressive as _hrac_ for that fatal tube through which man, ingenious in illegitimate perversion, daily compels the innocent breath to discharge a plumbeous hail of rhetoric. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
  • They have not been provided with identity cards because they are regarded as illegitimate residents by the local administration.
  • So I think people that are urging war crime trials ought to spend more time trying to assuage worries, e.g. that war crime trials would be seen as illegitimate, would provoke a nationalistic backlash, would start a civil war, or something along those lines, instead of just shouting “principals” and “the law ought to apply to the powerful just as much as the not-powerful” both of which I agree with. pseudonymous in nc Says: Matthew Yglesias » Requests We Can Believe In
  • But if the second marriage was bigamous and therefore invalid, then FPJ would be illegitimate and should follow his mother's, not his father's, citizenship.
  • My son has three illegitimate children, two boys and a girl; but only one of them is legitimated, that is, his son by Mademoiselle de Seri, a lady of noble family, and who was my Maid of Honour. The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency
  • The second hypothesis, which is more plausible, is that Helen is illegitimate - one of her debauched father's by-blows.
  • Manapat said Poe was born as the illegitimate child of an already married Spanish father and an American mother, and thus should have acquired the citizenship of his mother under Philippine law.
  • All the official jets, snazzy embassies, and expensive press agents cannot hide that these illegitimate rulers are not in the political sense Western at all.
  • Children who are illegitimate can nevertheless inherit from their parents.
  • The power conferred upon corporate managers by the business company was potentially unchecked and hence illegitimate within the framework of liberal democracy.
  • From 1875, English law required both the presence and consent of the father when the birth of an illegitimate child was registered in order for his name to be put on the certificate.
  • She was the illegitimate daughter of a maid and was brought up in Paris in bleak and unaffectionate circumstances.
  • There's simply no reason for not doing the ‘right’ thing in regards to correcting for our unlawful and illegitimate invasion.
  • The legal position and disabilities of illegitimates remained largely unchanged until late in the 20th century, unaffected by the family law reforms of the 1920s and the general loosening of standards during the two world wars.
  • They adhered to an old-fashioned and somewhat puritanical morality, and criticized their friend Ingrid Bergman for destroying her film career by having an illegitimate child with Roberta Rossellini.
  • Fearing social opprobrium if it was known that she had two illegitimate children - she had been passing as Mrs Imlay in public - Mary persuaded Godwin to marry her.
  • The unsympathetic indifference of previously amiable females, the contempt of muscular males, the acceptance of fragments of bread, the simulated ignorance of casual acquaintances, the latration of illegitimate unlicensed vagabond dogs, the infantile discharge of decomposed vegetable missiles, worth little or nothing, nothing or less than nothing. Ulysses
  • The claims of biopiracy were also meritless, resting on a stupid claim that bioprospecting was illegitimate unless all indigenous communities in a region approve it.
  • While in the capital, Millet had catered to the desires of an urban clientele in order to feed and house his growing illegitimate family by painting luscious neo-Rococo nudes and pastorals.
  • Third, despite his unfortunate history as the ultimate polarizer who hypocritically led the illegitimate partisan effort to impeach Bill Clinton (the bad Newt), in fact, Gingrich has also demonstrated an ability to reach across the aisle to work with Democrats and liberals on real solutions to real problems (the good Newt). Lanny Davis: Newt Gingrich -- Don't Count Him Out So Fast
  • Some of the most celebrated figures of this period were born out of wedlock and into poverty, including Henry Stanley and Catherine Cookson, but several less famous illegitimates have also left thoughtful memoirs.
  • She claimed not to have experienced the teasing and cruelty that other illegitimates remembered.
  • He called the vote " illegitimate, undemocratic, untransparent and not free, " the AP said. Observers Criticize Azerbaijan Poll
  • The massive explosions in the centres of power in America are a painful slap in the face of US politicians to stop their illegitimate hegemony and attempts to impose custodianship on peoples.
  • The girl who has had an illegitimate child is thought very little the worse of by her friends and her own class, especially if her seducer is a man who can afford to pay for it -- that is the grand point. The Toilers of the Field
  • An illegitimate child was literally parentless at law, and even the subsequent marriage of the parents could not legitimize their offspring.
  • She was the illegitimate child of a slave called Brotessa whose master - a pagan called Dubtach - was Brigid's father.
  • Culture will specify the relations that exist within the organisation and define what is to count as legitimate or illegitimate behaviour.
  • It enforces an illegitimate system of unfair rules and operates with undemocratic procedures.
  • Afghans believe Karzai is an illegitimate American puppet and consider his regime to be as foreign as the Taliban. Michael Hughes: U.S. Brokering Afghan 'Peace' Plan With An Unholy Alliance
  • Newcomer Kit Harington tells TVGuide that he had to learn to embrace the term "bastard," which is used quite frequently and openly in the series to describe his character Jon Snow, the illegitimate son of Winterfell's Lord Ned Stark Sean Bean. Game of Thrones' Kit Harington: "Oh God, I'm a Bastard!"
  • Even if he is right as a matter of political theory, he will not be an effective lawyer if he treats the law as wholly illegitimate.
  • Some of them pretend they're the illegitimate sons of noblemen, and some of them pretend some one else did the murder.
  • They adhered to an old-fashioned and somewhat puritanical morality , and criticized their friend Ingrid Bergman for destroying her film career by having an illegitimate child with Roberto Rossellini .
  • If you don't believe what I'm saying, look at all the illegitimates, having more and more illegitimates in America and Africa.
  • Of course you know that we no longer accept illegitimate government within the subregion, he said. West African Leaders Suspend Ivory Coast Over Political Crisis
  • Illegitimate children caused a problem for a society that made heterosexual monogamous marriage the only respectable family formation.
  • Even illegitimates with basically happy lives regretted having no relationship with their fathers.
  • Hitherto most philosophy, the illegitimate heir of religion, had been a consolation and an apology for the constraints and limits of human existence which were represented as necessary; it had therefore been a prop supporting the existing social order, just because its definitions of freedom had been abstract and had claimed some kind of unalterable necessity. Sartre's Cage
  • Second, spammers may retweet and change legitimate links to illegitimate ones, the process of which is obfuscated by URL shorteners.
  • Those were still the days when an illegitimate child was a matter for shame, to be concealed from society if at all possible.
  • It is for this reason that the one-person-one-vote decision, while appealing in democratic terms, seems to me a form of illegitimate judicial activism.
  • For the historian it is equally illegitimate to overlook what they had in common as it is to neglect the differences.
  • This should not be taken to mean that military intervention is necessarily illegitimate.
  • This, as may be imagined, made her husband no less desirous of a separation than herself, and he prosecuted his design in the most effectual manner; for he applied not to the ecclesiastical courts for a divorce, but to the parliament for an act, by which his marriage might be dissolved, the nuptial contract totally annulled, and the children of his wife illegitimated. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
  • The court was careful to distinguish between the action for claiming survivors' benefits and the action in filiation necessary to qualify illegitimates as eligible beneficiaries under the act.
  • Culture will specify the relations that exist within the organisation and define what is to count as legitimate or illegitimate behaviour.
  • In Maher's book, the reader learns Nadja is an illegitimate child and grows up to become a fortune-teller. An interview with Jan Maher; first published in The Huntington Herald-Press 
  • For the Conservative Leader to suggest the law is illegitimate because its supporters aren't federalist is outrageous and hypocritical.
  • Born with a legal claim to honour and to affluence, he was in two months illegitimated by the Parliament, and disowned by his mother, doomed to poverty and obscurity, and launched upon the ocean of life only that he might be swallowed by its quicksands, or dashed upon its rocks. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
  • When lawmakers and pundits say that providing social welfare programs to single young moms encourages illegitimate pregnancies and when they dichotomize "the right to life" versus "the right to choose," they fail to see young moms and their children as fully human. Robin Templeton: What Every Mother Needs
  • Taxes on inheritance were more favorable to legitimate than to illegitimate children of the decedent.
  • He sits down with his two half-sisters to talk about their father's funeral, at which they met for the first time, and from which Kahn's wife tried to exclude Kahn's two illegitimate children and their mothers.
  • Born with a legal claim to honour and to affluence, he was, in two months, illegitimated by the parliament, and disowned by his mother, doomed to poverty and obscurity, and launched upon the ocean of life, only that he might be swallowed by its quicksands, or dashed upon its rocks. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
  • To be sure, some illegitimates who were unquestionably established as children of the decreased would be disqualified because of failure of compliance, but individual fairness is not the test.
  • The last time Canada had a genuine constitutional crisis, the King-Byng affair, it ended in pretty much disaster, in the Prime Minister illegitimately asserting non-existent powers over the governor-general who was supposed to be in the reserve, supreme and unimpeachable. Matthew Yglesias » Is The Left in Crisis?
  • However irrational it may be to burden innocent children because their parents did not marry, illegitimates are nonetheless a traditionally disfavored class in our society.
  • Must we forever kowtow to US imperialism and be treated like the illegitimate children of the global economy?
  • It is tempting, but completely illegitimate, to slide from analysis of the production of official solutions to their implementation.
  • The international community's role should be to support this self-liberation, not legitimize the illegitimate.
  • Touchwood sees the illegitimate child he has fathered as ‘a half a yard of flesh’ and, relieved to be rid of it with just a small financial outlay, he remarks ‘and would I were rid of all the wares in the shop so’.
  • This asserts that the despoliation of the planet has resulted from mankind's illegitimate assertion of superiority over the natural world. Times, Sunday Times
  • As a waterman, and later as a lock-keeper, he has alternative, and distinctly illegitimate, sources of income which are clearly not related to honest sweat.
  • Does this imply Darrell winds up in prison after fathering an illegitimate child?
  • Some of the children, of course, ended up in state care; particularly after the New Poor Law, the number of illegitimates eligible for outdoor relief fell steadily.
  • They don't want to talk very much beyond saying that any strike would be illegitimate, which is, in fact, what their country has been saying.
  • An insolent stranger makes an unexpected appearance in Tara's house claiming to be her illegitimate nephew (the bastard son of Padma).
  • Between 1949 and 1956, approximately 2,700 so-called illegitimate children were born there.
  • He acted illegitimately when he increased the rent fourfold
  • There are few truly evil people in the world, and so it is of vital importance for those who wield illegitimate power to deceive themselves into believing they do so justly.
  • Hoffman and Reilly squeeze all the legitimate, and many illegitimate, laughs out of the text.
  • While as a civilised society we must never forget the genocides of history, we equally have to avoid the illegitimate use of such memories to justify immoderate propping-up of doubtful political systems.
  • Under this exception, the bare desire to harm an unpopular group is an illegitimate basis for legislation.
  • I can find nothing sharp (or susceptible of schoolmaster's codification) in the different degrees of 'liveliness' in hypotheses concerning the universe, or distinguish a priori between legitimate and illegitimate cravings. Familiar Letters of William James II
  • The illegitimate child of this union is the occasion for the legacy.
  • Denying one group their rightful possession of property, acquired according to these rules, was the illegitimate exercise of government powers and was unjust.
  • Given all the pre-action correspondence and the obviously illegitimate attempt to get Legal Aid that cannot have been an accident.
  • Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for him if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate child?
  • Smith's ‘illegitimate’ sonnet consists of three elegiac quatrains and a couplet, thus combining both English elegiac meters.
  • According to McDowell's diagnosis, the move from subjective indistinguishability to the highest common factor conception depends upon an illegitimate view of self-knowledge. Petty Injuries
  • In the early 1970s the normal response to a pre-marital conception was marriage; abortion or illegitimate birth were less favoured alternatives.
  • For the historian it is equally illegitimate to overlook what they had in common as it is to neglect the differences.
  • Security services such as antispam and web content filtering can also help to minimize money mule recruitment attempts, as they could help flag the recruitment emails, or potentially warn or block specific illegitimate job recruitment domains. Fortinet October Threat Landscape Report Highlights Increased Zeus/Money Mule Risks - Yahoo! Finance
  • History will not remember what illegitimate excuse they used, other than as a derogative footnote; but history will remember their transgression against freedom, and it is upon this that posterity shall judge them. ProWomanProLife » Note to the administration: They’re not backing down
  • To Convict and Punish illegitimately"is one of the composing articles of the criminal codes of the Qing Imperial Code, which mainly was used to restrict officials in trials.
  • The applicant must have had only one illegitimate child, have ‘fallen’ under a promise of marriage, and been of previously irreproachable behavior.
  • The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty was illegitimate, if not incomprehensible, to Rousseau.
  • This was an entirely new punishment for people who, when they were in a state of what was called bondage, thought nothing was shameful or “illegitimate” about unmarried parents. A Renegade History of the United States
  • More seriously, she argues that he was blackmailed into rejecting the comedy by a bluestocking who threatened to reveal that the great actor-manager's protege was his illegitimate son.
  • For documentation of settler men having illegitimate children with slaves, free blacks, and mixed-race women, see H.F. Heese, Groep sonder grense. back Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
  • It is a forgone conclusion that Netanyahu's preconditions -- Palestinian recognition of Israel as a "Jewish state," "demilitarization" of the prospective Palestinian less-than-a-sovereign state and preserving Israel's illegitimate "right" to expand its illegal colonial Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories -- will fare worse than Sharon's conditions. Ethnic Cleansing as a State Policy
  • It is tempting, but completely illegitimate, to slide from analysis of the production of official solutions to their implementation.
  • Indeed, illegitimates claimed employment discrimination in the 1920s and 1930s; one woman, born early in the century, could not get a job as a nurse during the 1920s because her birth certificate showed she had no father.
  • Thousands of illegitimate children were denied adoption because the church could not countenance the thought that ‘the legal parent might be alive’.
  • These are not illegitimate pressures, even if they may seem inartistic, in a business that has never offered itself as simply an art.
  • They are both illegitimate; that is to say, born out of wedlock; purposely produced according to current theories of free love. SPLITTING
  • One of those illegitimate blockades, bearing date in May, 1806, having been expressly avowed to be still unrescinded, and to be in effect comprehended in the orders in council, was too distinctly brought within the purview of the act of Congress not to be comprehended in the explanation of the requisites to a compliance with it. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
  • Cohabitation was still frowned upon, illegitimate births a stigma and the nuclear family the accepted way of doing things.
  • My theory of the formation of the scientific doctrine of matter is that first philosophy illegitimately transformed the bare entity, which is simply an abstraction necessary for the method of thought, into the metaphysical substratum of these factors in nature which in various senses are assigned to entities as their attributes; and that, as a second step, scientists (including philosophers who were scientists) in conscious or unconscious ignoration of philosophy presupposed this substratum, _qua_ substratum for attributes, as nevertheless in time and space. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
  • Since the fifteenth century, in English Heraldry, a narrow bendlet or baton sinister, couped at its extremities, either plain or charged, has usually been the mark employed as difference by the illegitimate descendants of the Royal Family. The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • Ana, incidentally, is the acknowledged but illegitimate daughter of a powerful Spanish lord who offered the convent a large sum for accepting his by-blow as a new recruit.
  • When you mention that, illegitimate children, that is one of the things which in a generation, twenty years or so, attitudes have changed wholesale.
  • Neither could have inherited by heredity alone, since it was not clear that a woman was allowed to succeed, and both were illegitimate under English law.
  • The GOP is now proving that despite their former warnings of doom (when THAT suited their purposes), they now embrace this "shifty" legal strategy as an effective way of illegitimately preventing a Senator from the opposing party from taking office at all. Minnesota Supremes Reject Coleman Lawsuit, Clearing Way For Franken Win Later Today
  • Okhotin, an inveterate thief, the illegitimate son of a prostitute, brought up in a doss-house, who, up to the age of 30, had apparently never met with any one whose morality was above that of Resurrection
  • There was no such thing as an illegitimate child, a mother had simply to ‘name’ the child and if it was a son he could inherit part of its father's property.
  • Inspired by a few facts from Errol Flynn's life, and rooting her story firmly in Jamaican history, Cezair-Thompson vividly imagines the life of Ida, who is little more than a child herself when she gives birth to her daughter May, the illegitimate child of 1930/40s movie star Errol Flynn - known as a swashbuckling adventurer on screen, and for his glittering parties and affairs off screen. The Pirate's Daughter: Summary and book reviews of The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson.
  • On the other hand, illegitimate pyramid schemes can resemble legit sales operations.
  • Unlike legitimate weapons held openly in escrow, illegitimate covert weapons would be usable.
  • About 68 per cent of illegitimate births were jointly registered by both parents.
  • It will be unusual for a bank itself to have exercised undue influence, acted unconscionably, or exerted illegitimate pressure.
  • Hence the objection that helping mothers to have safe deliveries is somehow illegitimate unless similar help is offered to women to avoid becoming mothers at all. ProWomanProLife » The opposition to motherhood itself
  • It also demonstrates the fragility of the dividing line between the legitimate and illegitimate grant of exclusive rights.
  • One explanation for Simons mysterious background lies in his actual name: fitz means son of but FitzMary is in fact a matronymic (i.e. derived from his mothers Christian name) which commonly denoted illegitimate birth (as in Martin FitzAlice, alderman of St Michaels, Paternoster Royal, in 1281). Bedlam
  • Bloody and incessant feuds had sadly demoralized monastic life, and rendered church government extremely difficult, while the rough barons had intruded their illegitimate children into a large number of the livings, abbacies, and episcopal sees. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • It is legislation by stealth, it is illegitimate, and thankfully it seems to be working less well recently.
  • The Giants slugger is receiving criticism from fellow players, politicians and fans who claim that his matching of Babe Ruth's career totals are illegitimate. USATODAY.com - Bonds meets Babe Ruth, but does anyone really care?
  • Ideally, the effects of the illegitimate acquisition should be rectified, and the resources restored to their rightful owner.
  • If a widow had an illegitimate child, outdoor relief was likely to be stopped altogether.
  • Didn't you just say a military general who comes to power by forcibly overthrowing the legitimate government of a nation is an illegitimate leader?
  • Even a political leader herself can with good reason believe that her political power is illegitimate, and that exercising this power is unjustified.
  • Women greatly outnumber men, and illegitimate births are very numerous.
  • She understood then what Nana meant, that a harami was an unwanted thing; that she, Mariam, was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family, home, acceptance. Excerpt: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  • Similarly, Martin Narey's call for a return to 1970s figures for baby adoptions suggests lack of awareness of the difference between contemporary adoption from care and historic "relinquishment" of illegitimate children. Letters: Adopting a child-centred approach
  • And the upper class of Bahamians are monied families who have made their money illegitimately and then tried to buy respect.
  • The rebels regard the official parliament as illegitimate.
  • MLI's motivation to turn a blind eye to the numerous indicia of illegitimate trading activity and fraud included the receipt of substantial fees in relation to structured notes and warrants underlying Madoff feeder funds. Merrill Unit Accused of Missing Madoff 'Red Flags'
  • John F.. Kennedy won by a hair and under questionable circumstances, yet his presidency was never considered illegitimate.
  • As the illegitimate son of Rachel Fawcett Lavien and presumably James Hamilton, Alexander was unwelcomed by the church establishment of colonial Nevis Island of the British West Indies. Matt J. Rossano: Alexander Hamilton's Religion: A Temperate Example For Today's Fractured World
  • As indicated above, another of the major problems for illegitimate children was the feeling that they were never secure members of their families.
  • In a democracy, or a representative republic, that particular fear is the most illegitimate ground fathomable for keeping information secret. Shahid Buttar: Secrecy Sacrificing National Security
  • The mother of an illegitimate child had no legal recourse to the father.
  • The new provision omits reference to illegitimates and presumably does not apply to them.
  • If in the respectable poor, illegitimates either lived in ignorance of their real names - and thus in danger of disillusionment when they found out the truth - or had to lead a double life.
  • And the percentage of total births that are illegitimate has held relatively steady in recent years, after a vertiginous 50-year climb.
  • The presence of an illegitimate child to that elder brother had been kept a dark secret.
  • Unlike Oklahoma, all states have not provided for inheritance by illegitimates.
  • He writes that his first experience of the police came through his unruly boyhood and that he is the father of an illegitimate child, born while he was a military police officer in South Korea.
  • Outside his marriage, he had four illegitimate children (with one disputed), which may sound on the high side, but that was not unusual.
  • So a British father of an illegitimate child born abroad is not recognised as a father for the purposes of Section 2 but a British mother is; so is a British father of a legitimate child born abroad.
  • There are no stipulations for issues like illegitimate children, or the now rampant cases of domestic violence.
  • But as is revealed in a startling new biography, he fathered illegitimate children and had numerous affairs.
  • When he shows reservations in embarking on an affair with her, she points out to him that as an illegitimate son, his parentage is uncertain, to which Spurio agrees. Final drafting stuff:
  • However, world events and history seem to have been shaped by the offspring of an illegitimate son of a common bowman.
  • However, three of the five justices attached their opinion on regulation of the law which allows an illegitimate child to obtain citizenship with postnatal filiation after the parents have married each other.
  • In those days, the merest suggestion that a nationalized army was under consideration by some illegitimate, foreign-born blackamoor prince or other was enough to send our gallant, free-enterprising forebears scuttling back to their moat-girded castles for the billhooks, maces, broadswords, and war hammers guaranteed them under the Second Amendment to Erik Bloodaxe's Rules of Civilized Mayhem. Stop the Government Takeover of America's Armed Forces!
  • Being accompanied by the span-new silken affair with the golden head, which, as I have narrated _supra_, I was so lucky to obtain promiscuously after witnessing the Adelphi of the Westminster college boys, I naturally protested vehemently against such arbitrary and tyrannical regulations, urging the risk of my unprotected umbrella being feloniously abducted during unavoidable absence by some unprincipled and illegitimate claimant. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
  • Voreqe and his regime will never accept the court ruling as it went against their wishes so no doubt they were always going to manipulate the ailing President to abrogate the Constitution as their last resort of holding on to power and to bring about their illegal and illegitimate designs on the government and people of Fiji. Global Voices in English » Fiji’s President voids constitution, calls for elections in five years
  • In any event, the exclusion of them from the balancing exercise is likewise illegitimate.
  • Punters are being warned that buying tickets from illegitimate online sources will cost them almost 70 per cent more than buying pukka tickets.
  • In the United States legislation disfavouring the relationship between illegitimate children and their natural parents was quite common well into the twentieth century.
  • Moreover, as Lord Scarman recognised, pressure which appears legitimate might be illegitimate if applied for the wrong motives.
  • In a study of three species of monogamous shorebirds, the researchers found that ‘illegitimate’ chicks were found overwhelmingly in the nests of partners with a high degree of genetic similarity.
  • Specialized transducing phages generated from the prophage by illegitimate recombination usually contain the E. coli genes gal or bio that are adjacent to the phage genome.
  • The book's subtitle delineates precisely Mary's predicament: Born a princess in 1516 with an excellent education and formidable pedigree, she was declared illegitimate after her parents 'divorce but later crowned as England's first queen regnant. Three books on British royals
  • The rebels regard the official parliament as illegitimate.
  • this child was born illegitimately
  • Here, by contrast, the statute does not broadly discriminate between legitimates and illegitimates without more, but is carefully tuned to alternative considerations.
  • For example, Lord Voldemort had his background as a motherless illegitimate child --- which doesn't really go anywhere near explaining his extreme evil and self-destructive tendency to kill people, especially Muggles, just for fun. Why Villains Exist in Fiction

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