That assumption has become, if not exactly a birthright, an acquired right.
The government objected to a ruling last January by Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal, which had struck down a law denying residency to children born before one or other parent had acquired the right to live in Hong Kong.
As a result, Austria's mainstream, respectable right has acquired a rare, if perhaps short-lived, ascendancy.
Kanoute is struggling to recover from a ligament strain in his right knee acquired in Mali's 0-0 draw with Benin in Porto Novo on 3 June.
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Former MP Andrew Dismore said a challenge now to the British Museum's right to have acquired the marbles in 1816 faced insurmountable obstacles.
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Whereas Americans used to look upon Wilberforce, in a fuzzy way, as an equivalent of Abraham Lincoln, the British abolitionist has now acquired fans on the religious right.
The investing unit we acquired at the beginning of 2008, so right before all of the particularly challenging period began.
The court held that banks would never find suitable places in crowded downtown business districts unless they could have the right to rent out surplus space acquired in a good-faith effort to house their operations.
Al-Haq's case is that Britain has an obligation, under international law, not to assist Israel because it says Israel has interfered with the Palestinian right to self-determination, has acquired territory by force and has committed war crimes.
Similar services such as Mahalo and Aardvark, recently acquired by Google, have developed improved ways to show the right questions to the people who can best answer them.
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During that time the regional development agency acquired, at taxpayers' expense, an impressive portfolio of property right across the Midlands, valued at many millions of pounds.
In keeping with his radical views on the desirability of making public information about CIA covert operatives and intelligence sources and methods, Halperin also defends the right to publicize such information as long as it is acquired through unclassified channels.
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The former Birmingham right-back feels his football has not suffered since his company acquired the franchise for the shop at Whaddon Road.
In addition, a few companies (RIM, HP) are working with new operating systems acquired in the past year and are under pressure to show they made the right bets.
This week's trades of Carson Palmer to the Arizona Cardinals and of Matt Flynn (pictured, far right) to the Oakland Raiders brought the total of projected starters acquired via trade to three this off-season, along with Kansas City's Alex Smith.
By 2005, Centre Partners had fully exited the business through secondary offerings, but with the business still growing three years later and an alteration of the tax implications for Canadian income trusts, the time was right to step back into the business and the private equity firm acquired Connor Bros.
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But this time his company is too small to buy a titan like Merck, and the joint venture could discourage buyers:It contains a "poison pill" clause that gives Merck the right to buy Schering-Plough's share of the partnership if Schering-Plough is acquired.
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