(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”.
Repatriation
Definition:
(n.) Restoration to one's country.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
(2) Setting out how Britain would have a lever over the rest of the EU to demand repatriation of UK competences, Cameron said: "What's happening in Europe right now is massive change being driven by the existence of the euro.
(3) An amendment from George Eustice, a new but influential MP who used to work for Cameron, calls on the coalition to publish a white paper in the next two years setting out which powers ministers would repatriate from Brussels.
(4) It also said the repatriation was conducted with the full knowledge and concurrence of PNG police.
(5) As a result, the Kenyan government signed an agreement with UNHCR to work on voluntary repatriation of Somali refugees in Dadaab.
(6) Around 40% of all Mexicans deported from the US are repatriated into Tijuana , on Mexico's Pacific coast.
(7) Recently repatriated Dempsey, late of Fulham and Spurs, is the main source of goals, perhaps unsurprisingly given that the first-choice striker is Altidore.
(8) Separation and bed-day rates per 1000 persons for public, Repatriation and private hospitals in 1985 have been estimated by age group, for each sex, in each State and Territory in Australia.
(9) One proposed solution, favoured by the Republican party for decades and periodically enacted, is a repatriation tax holiday - a fixed period during which money brought onshore is taxed less.
(10) A secret US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks suggests the Foreign Office has privately admitted its latest plan to declare the islands the world's largest marine protection zone will end any chance of them being repatriated .
(11) America's once dominant internet giants, with 80% of the globe under their sway, now face "Balkanised" regulation round the world as nation states seek to repatriate digital sovereignty.
(12) Around 1,300 FDLR fighters have been disarmed and repatriated to Rwanda since the offensive began, according to the UN.
(13) At the end of the 20th century, Britain asks for the repatriation of the “Papadopoulos steel”.
(14) • 57,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended at the border in 2014, and between 1,300 and 1,500 have been repatriated so far.
(15) The biggest, Egypt’s Orascom, is unable to repatriate profits from its mobile telecoms joint venture – which now faces a domestic DPRK competitor.
(16) The former prime minister said the UK should become a federal state, with the Scottish parliament taking control over fisheries, farming, welfare and far more taxation after EU powers are repatriated to the UK.
(17) I doubt whether Mr Cameron can avoid a repeat over the repatriation of powers when the next campaign comes.
(18) It is understood Downing Street is planning to include a commitment to repatriate these powers in the Conservative manifesto for the next election.
(19) The MEDLARS database, from 1966 to the present, under the terms military personnel, veterans, veterans' disability claims, combat disorders and prisoners (matched against war); databases of the Department of Veterans' Affairs (Victoria) and the Central Library, Commonwealth Department of Defense, under the term "prisoner of war"; and the microfiche listings of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, under "prisoner of war" and "repatriation".
(20) McCain's point is that the low rate of repatriation represents a lure for potential immigrants because the chances are they'll make it.