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The pace of change is quickening in this England side, and though Andy Carroll may not be swift in his current half-fit state, the country's most expensive home-born footballer led the way in an entertaining friendly with his first international goal.
England fans are given a glimpse of the future by Fabio Capello | Paul Hayward 2011
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We have home-born homegrown enemies in our system.
Sharron Angle agrees with radio host who says we have "domestic enemies" within Congress 2010
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We have home-born homegrown enemies in our system.
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Young home-born slaves were bought up by the dealers, castrated, because of the increased price they brought when in this condition, and sold for huge sums: Seneca, Controv. x, chap. 4; and kidnapping was frequently resorted to, just as it is in Africa today.
Satyricon 2007
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- By 1924, when polo was included in the Olympic Games for the first time, Argentina was represented by a team of home-born players, though some of them of English descent.
Polo and Pato 2007
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He afterwards contemptuously calls him his servant, or his home-born slave, ` the son of my house (he says) will be my heir. '
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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It is however asked, how he could be both a Damascene and a home-born slave of Abram?
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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We next see, how faithfully his family was instructed; because not only his home-born slaves, but foreigners, and men bought with money, meekly receive the wounds which was both troublesome, and the occasion of shame to carnal sense.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Issy Wolfson, the party treasurer, belonged to the new generation of home-born white communists.
Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 20 Ray Esther 1969
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They recruit foreign Africans from territories in southern and central Africa, thereby obviating labour scarcities from which the home-born African would benefit.
Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 26 Ray Esther 1969
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