(n.) One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises.
(n.) An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.
(n.) A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.
(n.) One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country.
(a.) Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(2) On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
(3) The need here is to promote the development of genuinely participative models – citizens panels and juries, patient and community leaders, participatory budgeting, and harnessing the power of digital engagement.
(4) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
(5) Albrecht said it would represent a great success for the parliament's investigation into mass surveillance of EU citizens.
(6) The prime minister and chancellor threaten legal action over any losses incurred by British citizens as banks are nationalized.
(7) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
(8) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
(9) Day by day we strive to unmask all the lies told to citizens.
(10) Institutional legitimacy arises from closer links between citizens.
(11) In an era when citizens expect choice, the council argue, the old model of local government no longer works.” Northants uses the word “right-sourcing” to describe the process of offloading services.
(12) The FCO ask all British citizens to register with the British embassy in Pyongyang and warn that it has limited reach outside the capital.
(13) Indeed, his reaction to the nationwide citizens' revolt reveals ominous parallels with another autocratic leader who has recently found himself in a tight spot: Vladimir Putin.
(14) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
(15) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
(16) British citizens travelling or studying abroad for more than three months are being refused benefits on their return under new rules designed to crackdown on benefit tourism from eastern Europe .
(17) But I hope that this can close the gap between the police department and the communities, that they can learn to recognise each other as citizens.
(18) Friendly visiting programs may prove helpful in informing homebound senior citizens of these health-related community services.
(19) This sends the dangerous message that the citizens of the debtor countries need to suffer badly to signal their contrition.
(20) Today no one can doubt that Ukraine is inhabited by European citizens, just like those in England, Germany or Poland.
Civics
Definition:
(n.) The science of civil government.
Example Sentences:
(1) We used to have a really good night in here on Bonfire night.” Communities across the UK are facing the same unwillingness by civic bodies to stage Bonfire night celebrations.
(2) The Tory civic voluntarism of Cameron's speech cannot deal with structural problems on this scale.
(3) Civic Platform, led for most of its existence by Donald Tusk before he became president of the European Council, included many of the liberal architects of the post-1989 republic and their supporters – those who had negotiated the transition, those who determined its free-market economic model, those who established a conciliatory tone and pro-European orientation in foreign policy, those who negotiated the constitutional settlement reached in 1997.
(4) There was none of the prejudice found in much of the British press, just acceptance that it was part of the town’s civic duty to share in helping with a European-wide problem.
(5) The public servants’ ethos, their attachment to the civic realm, has been systematically trashed as mere unionised self-interest.
(6) On current projections, Civic Platformwould secure 206 seats in the 460-member lower chamber, or Sejm.
(7) Then, in English, a simple statement that has come to define a Japanese summer of public discontent, the likes of which it has not seen in a generation: “This is what democracy looks like!” Amid the trade union and civic group banners were colourful, bilingual placards held aloft by a new generation of activists who have assumed the mantle of mass protest as Japan braces for the biggest shift in its defence posture for 70 years.
(8) Moreover, three civic services were driven by two or more of these public health themes.
(9) Saudi Arabia doesn’t distinguish between civic and military targets, and it doesn’t differentiate between child or woman or older man.
(10) After graduation, whether a practicing physician, teacher, author, researcher, or simply a postprandial speaker at a civic club meeting, he or she will be able to influence the thinking and behavior of others in a much more efficient and interesting manner.
(11) Sikorski, whose Civic Platform party is a member of the EPP, told the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1: "If the Tories were part of the EPP he could have made that argument [against Juncker] at the Dublin summit when the EPP chose its candidate.
(12) As a result of a remarkable call issued by a number of large national civic coalitions, which has spread like wildfire across the Palestinian body politic scattered to the four winds, it is now signed by more than 150 popular and grassroots organisations in Palestine and in exile.
(13) Woking also built a series of combined heat and power (CHP) stations - one of which powers council buildings, some sheltered housing and the bulk of the town centre, including the civic offices, a leisure complex, a hotel, bingo hall and exhibition centre.
(14) As Hunter recorded, it was acquired by a civic dignitary, Mr Alderman Pugh, "who very politely allowed me to examine its structure, and to take away the bones".
(15) It affects more than our universities, as only one of the sites of free speech in our public sphere, but not the only one – and certainly not more precious than our boroughs, schools, or other national civic institutions as protected democratic space.
(16) That has led the yes and no referendum campaigns and civic rights groups to fear that between 700,000 and 1 million Scots may not participate in the decision to decide the country's future – a group known as the missing million.
(17) Civic Platform considers Poland part of a western team facing global challenges together.
(18) Over coming weeks and months, ministers from many major UK departments will be visiting Scotland with increasing frequency for private meetings with business, civic and cultural leaders.
(19) Electrocardiographic (ECG) changes during maximal bicycle exercise and risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) were studied in 510 male civic employees who were followed for 3 years.
(20) Vaclav Klaus A former state economist, then Civic Forum supporter, he was made finance minister in 1989.