(n.) The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
Example Sentences:
(1) The citizenship debate is tawdry, conflated and ultimately pointless | Richard Ackland Read more On Wednesday, the prime minister criticised lawyers for backing terrorists.
(2) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
(3) Secularism is the only way to stop collapse and chaos and to foster bonds of citizenship in our complex democracy.
(4) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
(5) She said she was not worried by Rubio’s one-time position on his immigration bill, later retracted, that he could not support reform if it included citizenship for gay couples.
(6) He renounced his Australian citizenship , returned his passport and Medicare card to the Australian Commonwealth, and sent his driver’s licence back to the chief minister of the Australian Capital Territory, where he then lived.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump questions US citizenship of ‘anchor babies’.
(8) A chartered certified accountant, he was educated at University College London and holds UK citizenship but is based in Monaco with his wife and two children.
(9) But where it is not a free and fair election then we must fight for free and fair elections because that is the essence of our citizenship.” In Kampala, the spokesman for the FDC said the delays were a “deliberate attempt to frustrate” voters in urban areas, especially Kampala and the neighbouring district of Wakiso.
(10) Our board of trustees already involves [the ice hockey player] Ilya Kovalchuk and his wife Nicole, and we are now negotiating with [the boxer] Roy Jones Jr, who recently received Russian citizenship.” It is clear that Shatov is an achiever more than than a dreamer – a down-to-earth character who will never forget where he came from.
(11) But up against the dislocation of the industrial revolution, ideas of citizenship had to change, as inspirational leaders appalled by the suffering of the new working class sought to transform a brutal economic free-for-all into a civilised society.
(12) What we are seeing is the government really squabbling over what is such an important and profound piece of legislation for our country, like kids in a schoolyard.” Shorten told reporters on Sunday the government’s citizenship laws were “rapidly descending into a farce”, and called on it to urgently release the text of the legislation so Labor could scrutinise it.
(13) Citizenship laws likely to survive constitutional challenge, says expert – politics live Read more “Automatic loss of citizenship will be triggered whether the conduct takes place inside or outside Australia,” Dutton told the House.
(14) Chart comparing the number of citizenship applications submitted by British nationals in the ten largest cities in Germany between 2015 and 2016 For Belgium, which also handles naturalisations on a local level, five of the 10 largest cities provided data on citizenship applications from British nationals revealing a similar trend: whereas they received just five applications in the first eight months of 2015, there were 33 in the same period this year.
(15) More than £300,000 ($550,000) of UK aid money to tackle poverty overseas was spent on global citizenship lessons in Scottish schools and it was among millions of pounds of the aid budget that was actually spent in Britain.
(16) The explanation from an LVMH spokesman was that Arnault was seeking dual citizenship to make "sensitive" investments in Belgium, a response shot down by the Belgian authorities who said foreign investors enjoy the same fiscal treatment as locals.
(17) We cannot afford to leave the health citizenship of the future to a generation only causally educated about life.
(18) Some are also concerned that British citizenship can be stripped from individuals whose other nationality is meaningless to them.
(19) I believe that the processing centre and the resettlement arrangement, that we're now forging, will enable us to have an orderly process in those people who are seeking genuine citizenship of other countries in the region.
(20) On 21 May, the Australian reported that “second-generation Australians involved in terrorism face being stripped of their citizenship, along with dual nationals, as part of the Abbott government’s efforts to tighten national security laws”.
Expatriate
Definition:
(v. t.) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
(v. t.) Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Zayani reportedly cited the political sensitivity of naturalising Sunni expatriates and wanted to avoid provoking the opposition," the embassy said.
(2) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(3) Clinical features in 173 white expatriates returning to Britain with the sole diagnosis of schistosomiasis were compared with those in non-infected control subjects, matched for age and sex, returning from similar endemic areas.
(4) So when he came to tell me, he said, "Don't get too enthusiastic, it has nothing to do with your abilities, it's to do with the fact that they have just raised the expatriate allowances."
(5) These findings support the hypothesis that differences in the modulation of the immune response to parasite antigen are responsible for the observed differences in clinical presentation between expatriate and endemic populations with loiasis.
(6) I’ll talk in English,” he said, speaking to Filipino expatriates on a two-day state visit to Myanmar.
(7) Tiny Qatar, the richest of them all, leads the region in using wealth to provide subsidised education and food to buy the acquiescence if not the loyalty of their people – who in several countries are outnumbered by expatriate foreigners.
(8) Some members of the expatriate community living in Russia have become Russian citizens for marriage or business reasons, but it is a very rare occurrence, said Tatyana Bondrayevna, director of the Visa Delight migration agency.
(9) Monitoring the incidence of malaria in highly exposed expatriates provides early warning of the emergence of drug-resistant P falciparum malaria and can provide data to guide recommendations for travelers.
(10) Specialized HIV clinics have also been set up, with both Qatari and expatriate patients being enrolled in treatment programmes.
(11) Four of these were expatriate doctors who had worked in Africa.
(12) The reason had nothing to do with my success, it was because the allowances for expatriate people, of which I was one, were raised across the board.
(13) Her previous studies suggest the higher rates of depression among Haitian expatriates were linked to the drop in family contact the immigrants experienced.
(14) While there have been no reports of violence against Japanese citizens, some expatriates voiced concern about their safety.
(15) The expatriate advisor or 'expert' working in Indonesian medical education will require a complex range of personal and professional qualities if he or she is to be effective.
(16) The documentary moves beyond the charity's work to show British expatriates in Kenya; one stompingly posh woman remarks they have "a wildly gay time" there, and she feels that "even in their poverty, [the Kenyan people] are basically happy".
(17) Cannot she see that the best way to safeguard the rights of the 1.2 million UK citizens resident in the EU is to cement the goodwill of European governments by offering full and immediate assurances to their expatriates?
(18) Third of Saudi air raids on Yemen have hit civilian sites, data shows Read more The unease manifested itself early on in the campaign when calls were put into media organisations by British expatriates based in Saudi Arabia and members of the public in the UK who had picked up snippets from British service personnel in pubs, clubs or school playgrounds about the UK military working alongside the Saudi air force.
(19) Meanwhile in France, the former ruler of the North African country, expatriates celebrated.
(20) The development of concepts concerning the epidemiology of human malaria and the use of antimalarial drugs, either as protective or curative, lead more and more to the necessity for any traveller or expatriate to take medical advice from a specialized physician.