We used to be born into our social engagements.

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Many people assume you need to be born into connections or have attended a prestigious university or have worked at a roster brand-name companies in order to get to the people hiring for plum jobs.

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The baby boomer generation were fortunate to be the first to be born into the NHS. Now they are the generation that will test the capacity of the service to deal with a healthier population living longer lives.

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Little sister, when I open my mouth and you're free to skip from my belly and out into the sunlight, be born again on your own terms.

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It also needs to be extremely thorough, as leaving infection in badger populations is unfair to the badgers that are to be born in the future, or which migrate over time into the cull area, as they will become infected by the populations that we haven't cleaned up.

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Pope Francis will, we must hope, be as youthful at heart as the young nation he was born into.

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The bulk of babies born to unwed mothers may be unplanned, but that doesn't take into account lesbian couples or women who've decided to go it alone.

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If children are born into and raised in a conflict zone, they are more likely to be de-sensitized to violence.

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People regardless of where they came from, be it Republican, Loyalist or members of the RUC or prison warders whoever else, were born into a society that was in a conflict.

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Things that could be looked at, he added, included "the place of children who were born, if you like, innocently into another set of rules".

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