They want the first born, if she's a girl, to one day be queen.
China's family planning laws limit most urban couples to a single child, while rural families are allowed to have two children if their first born is a girl.
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How about if I just give you my wallet, my checking account number, my social security number and my first born child and you just let me sit down and read?
In fact, you're going to want to work out that upper body before using this thing for any period of time -- that is, once you're done selling your first born child.
He was the first president born in South Carolina and the first to travel on a train.
Mr. Kidd says Mr. Dorsey agreed to help take care of Mr. Kidd's first-born daughter.
Primogeniture refers to the right of the first-born child to inherit the entire estate.
This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from Berry2Droid, who wants to geek-up monitoring his first-born.
But cultural norms dictate that in Malawi the first-born should be delivered at home.
"Efficiency is beauty" was how Victor Li Tzar-kuoi, the patriarch's first-born, explained it to Fortune magazine a year ago.
He became Israel's first Iranian-born president and the first from the Likud party.
"My first-born sister used to encourage me, my mum also, but my dad sometimes was angry with me, " Yego said.
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Republicans reacted as though he had proposed a levy on first-born sons.
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They could also examine the effect of first-born children versus later births, sons versus daughters, and the impact on male versus female employees.
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The child-bearing trend began in 2000, when Tony Blair sired the first baby born to a serving prime minister in more than 150 years.
The Ottoman dynasty did not observe primogeniture (the right of the first-born son to the throne), so in principle the throne was available to any imperial son.
Another good friend of mine Hung Pham Do, the first Vietnam born Massachusetts CPA, was on the last plane out of Tan Son Nhut.
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My first- born died of natural death, natural causes from sickness.
No longer would you need to be a first-born male in a wealthy family, in many cases descended from nobility, it order to inherit property and financial security.
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As the first-born child (and an undeniable Type Double-A personality), I started taking over big things for my mother when my father was still in the nursing home.
The first was born in 1723 and the last died in 1813 a period of emerging empires, generating enough war, revolution and trade to absorb any number of precarious Scots.
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"I had to sign a secrecy agreement in which I promised my first-born children to a Michael Crichton Trust if I violated it, " Mr. Preston says of the interview process.
But he and his colleagues were surprised at the effects on bosses of having a first-born daughter, that that not only helps female employees but benefits male employees as well.
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The explanation for this pattern in India is that couples welcome a first-born of either sex, but if she is a daughter, then some ensure the second child is a son.
For first-born children, the sex ratio was normal 105 baby boys to 100 baby girls (since boys are slightly more vulnerable to childhood diseases, this ratio provides for equal numbers at marriageable age).
Suffused in the humanist tradition, erudite and wise, the novel examines how Cookie's parents, Alan (Woody) and Hannah Woodhull, and their two surviving daughters, Sara and Ludi, cope with the death of the first-born.
Reports from Jordan suggest that Saddam Hussein may favour Qusai , his younger son and head of Iraq's security apparatus, as his successor, rather than his first-born, Uday, who was injured in an assassination attempt in 1996.
Faraone's son Osiride wants to keep the Israelites around and continue his clandestine love affair with the Israelite Elcia, so he urges Faraone to break his promise and ends up a casualty of the last plague, the Slaying of the First-Born.
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