(1) Peter King, chairman of the House homeland security committee, said after he was briefed on the investigation that "close to" all 11 of the agents involved had brought women back to their rooms at a hotel separate from the one where Obama is staying.
(2) Millions have been driven out of their homes, seeking shelter in neighbouring countries and in safer parts of their homeland.
(3) The dismissals were prompted by their participation in a racist orgy during what was supposed to be a goodwill trip to the homeland of the club’s billionaire owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
(4) A is for America Vidal described his homeland as the United States of Amnesia.
(5) The author focuses on political and human rights violations, particularly in the Ciskei homeland, in a discussion of the difficulties of blacks in travel, earning a living, farming, and obtaining health care.
(6) Not long before my birth my parents were forced to leave their homeland – my mother from Peros Banhos, my father from Diego Garcia – under orders of their own UK government.
(7) A television link provided questions from Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya, pushing him on why he is not visiting his father's homeland during this tour.
(8) The former military ruler won the key prize of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, but at one point his lead was cut to 500,000 votes after landslide victories for Jonathan in his southern Delta homeland.
(9) I think it takes some serious balls to respond the way I did.” Controversy followed him to his homeland overnight when the Australian former Olympic swimming champion Dawn Fraser said of Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic , who criticised Tennis Australia and was subsequently dropped from the Davis Cup team: “They should be setting a better example for the younger generation of this country, a great country of ours.” “If they don’t like it, go back to where their fathers or their parents came from.
(10) What publicity the chief minister of the western Indian state of Gujarat could attract outside his homeland was only ever condemnatory, and his political career, barely begun, appeared on the verge of oblivion.
(11) Opinion was divided: was it a real day, or a meaningless exercise in flag-waving, with foreign troops still deployed in their homeland?
(12) The department of homeland security has controlled the secret service since 2003, when it took over responsibility from the treasury department.
(13) Burr said that language in the bill would require companies to “remove all personal information before that data is transferred to the federal government”, and that the Department of Homeland Security would scrub any data not cleaned by companies.
(14) Only a handful of local reporters have been permitted to visit the former territories held by the LTTE, who were fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, since the bloody and controversial end to the 26-year civil conflict in May last year.
(15) If he makes the move from NYPD commissioner to Homeland Security secretary, Kelly will carry with him to Washington some very hefty baggage.
(16) The homeland security department (DHS) said on Saturday it would comply with Robart’s order, but the justice department later said it was asking a federal appeals court to set aside the order on Friday by James Robart that temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s travel ban.
(17) State department spokesman John Kirby said on CNN on Thursday that applicants for fiancée visas go through a screening process that includes fingerprinting, a series of background checks and a face-to-face interview while the other future spouse in the US is checked by homeland security.
(18) The attacks on the Pentagon's computer system were described by Dr Sandra Bell, head of Rusi's homeland security department, as "very much a wake-up call".
(19) To Mogulof, Mayer almost believed she could charm the Nazis the way she had once-hypnotized her homeland: The ability to endure suffering while showing a serene and confident face came from years of managing a celebrity status.
(20) They are not going to be cowed by what the government has to say.” Siewert said the Barnett government appeared to have been shocked by the breadth and depth of opposition to the policy, fanned by the prime minister Tony Abbott, describing living in a remote community on Aboriginal homelands as a “lifestyle choice”, and was “casting about to see what will receive the least opposition”.
Motherland
Definition:
(n.) The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vladimir Putin painted a colourful picture of Russia's protesters on Thursday, describing them as agents of the west, attending useless demonstrations with condoms pinned to their chests as they sought the downfall of the motherland.
(2) This [India] is my motherland and I'd like to have an impact."
(3) Putin also granted a medal for “services to the motherland” to a man British police say poisoned former security services agent Alexander Litvinenko.
(4) He offers a simple, well-honed defence to convince both himself and his interrogators of his innocence: "I made it to protect the motherland.
(5) Afterwards, in a sign that she has not yet lost her caustic side, Sobchak wrote in her Tatler column: "Bozhena equally suffers for the fate of her motherland as for the fate of her fur coats."
(6) This is the fucking motherland,” a middle-aged member of the crowd, who gave his name as CL Fu, told Reuters.
(7) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
(8) The moving occasion of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland … like a long-separated child coming back to the warm embrace of his mother, is still vivid in our memory,” Xi told a dinner on Friday night.
(9) A few in the youthful crowd bore pictures of Mao Zedong and banners and placards ranged from the provocative — "For the respect of the motherland, we must go to war with Japan" — to the more polite: "Behave yourself, Japanese!"
(10) Nor are Russia's filthy rich too patriotic about the motherland.
(11) Beijing loyalists in Hong Kong’s legislature will say, ‘We need to protect the integrity of the motherland, you’re not allowed to say things like ‘Hong Kong is not China.’’ They worry these sentiments will spread to places like Tibet and Xinjiang, western Chinese provinces with large populations of ethnic minorities and a history of chafing under Beijing’s yoke.
(12) The 70-year-old said he was " deeply troubled by a feeling of great unease that our beloved motherland is losing its sense of direction , and that we are allowing ourselves to progress towards a costly disaster of a protracted and endemic general crisis".
(13) "We came back to our motherland and we will not leave again.
(14) A lmost before they had cleared up the vodka bottles in Lenin Square, scene of the party to celebrate Crimea's reunification with the motherland in Moscow , the well-planned moves kicked into place.
(15) The movement saw black communities in the US as a colony in the motherland; the struggle against US imperialism was central from its inception.
(16) But the Russian people have rallied around their leader Vladimir Putin … Long live our great motherland Russia!
(17) The Crimean peninsula is predominantly Russian-speaking, and despite splitting away from their eastern neighbour 60 years ago, many in the region still look longingly over the border to what they see as their motherland.
(18) We will stand as one, united in the cause of protecting our motherland's integrity."
(19) Suharto, with tens of thousands of others from the disbanded force, joined Peta, the Volunteer Army of Defenders of the Motherland, whose explicit aim was to help Japan defend Indonesia against invasion by the western allies.
(20) Eventually, the police decided to drop the charges, and five women including Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina pulled on brightly coloured balaclavas and ran down the steps, singing: 'Putin will teach you to love the motherland'.