by birth

A proponent of a proposed 2009 California ballot initiative aimed at cutting off public benefits for undocumented immigrants, for example, asserted that “illegals and their children” were engaged in “invasion by birth canal.”

He was a true believer in the British Empire, and also an Irishman by birth who was all too conscious of its abundant internal contradictions.

Her voice had a penetrating edge — one thinks of New York, though she was not by birth a New Yorker — she could modulate when the part required, but whatever the character Lavin spoke with a stage actor’s precision.

"Northern Ireland has a unique relationship with the EU, not just because of the protocol but because our people have EU citizenship by birth right and the right to re-enter the EU automatically after a referendum."

A formidable trio of landowners — one of them the philanthropist Arcadia Bandini Stearns de Baker, heiress to lands by birth and by marriage; her husband; and a Nevada senator — had founded Santa Monica in the 1870s.