What's the difference between homeless and stateless?
Homeless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of a home.
Example Sentences:
(1) What’s needed is manifesto commitments from all the main political parties to improve the help single homeless people are legally entitled to.
(2) Homeless children (n = 167) had lower height percentiles when compared with domiciled children (n = 167; P less than .001) and when compared with NCHS standards (P less than .001).
(3) In a multivariate regression model noncompliance was significantly associated with the absence of AIDS or ARC (p less than 0.001), homelessness (p less than 0.005), and alcoholism (p less than 0.05).
(4) This paper, which draws on the author's experience as chairman of the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), describes what is known about the characteristics of homeless persons and the causes of homelessness, and about the health status of homeless persons, which is often not very good (but not significantly worse, it would appear, than that of other low-income persons).
(5) Just by adding a sofa, table and chairs and some plants, we have turned this house into a home, and solved the housing crisis for one of the 6,500 rough sleepers or thousands of other homeless people in London.
(6) The newspaper is the brainchild of Jaime Villalobos, who saw homeless people selling The Big Issue while he was studying natural resource management in Newcastle.
(7) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
(8) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
(9) The "Big Blue" van of The Children's Aid Society brings much needed health services to homeless and underserved children of New York City.
(10) England’s most-capped player, Fara Williams, was homeless for seven years while playing for club and country.
(11) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(12) After reviewing the needs of the homeless mentally ill, the author makes recommendations for immediate action.
(13) It is of course important that migrants are not scapegoated; but such pious deceit from comfortable middle-class commentators can only provoke the unemployed, the low-paid and the homeless.
(14) The GMB union said that there was a risk that vulnerable people could be made homeless, but in the event of insolvency, Southern Cross's 31,000 homes would be run by local authorities or landlords on behalf of an administrator.
(15) Demographic analysis indicated that homeless children were predominantly Hispanic Americans.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Both San Francisco and Los Angeles have high-profile measures aimed to tackle homelessness in the west.
(17) What he didn’t foresee was that getting to know people more intimately would result in his using portraits – more than 130 so far – to raise awareness of the plight of chronic homelessness generally or that he would become passionately vocal about what has been an entrenched issue for a number of US cities for decades.
(18) So our house is open to visitors, and you are always welcome.” A few weeks after we left, the Gregório river oveflowed, wiping out five villages, destroying four years worth of handicrafts and carpentry and leaving hundreds of people homeless.
(19) Psychology can contribute in the development of effective programs for homeless individuals struggling with addiction and alcoholism.
(20) Although it was projected to save £270m, that sum "does not take account of the additional costs to local authorities (through homelessness and temporary accommodation)," he said.
Stateless
Definition:
(a.) Without state or pomp.
Example Sentences:
(1) These “temporary exclusion orders” appear to be a neat solution; by offering suspected jihadi fighters strict conditions on return, the government is upholding its primary duty to protect the public while maintaining its commitments in international law which say it must not create stateless beings.
(2) At the time of the Lords defeat, Pannick said: "There are regrettably all too many dictators around the world willing to use the creation of statelessness as a weapon.
(3) France's civil code says a person must have another nationality in order to give up French citizenship because it is forbidden to be stateless.
(4) They’re stateless dogs.” “Pistol and Boo have had their lives threatened by the actions of Mr Depp.” countdown Depp and his wife Amber Heard are preparing to leave the Gold Coast, where Depp is filming the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, on Friday night.
(5) There was no warning about other political groups, but next to an image of the anarchist emblem, the City of Westminster police's "counter terrorist focus desk" called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers stating: "Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy.
(6) I would work as a porter without payment.” Burma’s 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya are a stateless people.
(7) There is no intention to strip citizenship from second-generation Australians … nor is there any intention to leave anyone stateless,” Cash told a Senate estimates committee hearing.
(8) Besides, he was stateless, and there was nowhere to where he could be sent.
(9) Dutton dismissed reports there was significant cabinet opposition to the plan, and said no Australian would be rendered stateless as a result.
(10) He acknowledged the international concern that multinationals are using Ireland to lower their tax bills, and said he would bring in changes to the finance mill to stop Irish companies being 'stateless'.
(11) The plan, agreed after months of Whitehall talks, has been cleared by government law officers and devised to minimise legal claims that the British government will be rendering citizens stateless by barring them from the UK.
(12) If there’s a level of confidentiality needed for certain information that Asio [the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation] has that the minister has based his or her decision on, the principle remains that it should be reviewable because the courts can hold in-camera [private] proceedings where there’s a higher level of confidentiality.” Dutton reaffirmed that the government would not render people stateless and that a dual national whose Australian citizenship was revoked would be able to apply for a judicial review “through the federal court all the way up to the high court”.
(13) A departmental officer found he was “stateless” and had a “well-founded fear of persecution” in Iran.
(14) Yet concerns over fairness were raised ahead of election day, with an estimated 4 million Burmese living abroad unable to vote and the exclusion of around a million Rohingya Muslims , a stateless and persecuted minority.
(15) They’re stateless dogs.” The Department of Agriculture was tipped off about an “illegal animal importation” on Tuesday, around the same time groomers posted on social media that they had attended to the stars’ pets.
(16) Instead, Burmese authorities are trying to coerce Rohingya, the world’s largest stateless population within any single country’s borders, to identify as Bengali, a crude strategy to erase the Rohingya ethnic identity.
(17) It will be a new form of statelessness, when we physically lose the state.” This article was amended on 17 May 2016 to correct the name of the head of the IOM to William Lacy Swing
(18) The government of Burma does not recognise the roughly 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya as citizens, creating a stateless people.
(19) Downing Street initially floated the idea of banning radical Islamist fighters from coming back to Britain , but the proposal was dropped when it emerged that it would be illegal to make people stateless.
(20) In his March 2014 report to the prime minister, Walker canvassed consideration of the immigration minister having the power to revoke Australian citizenship by ministerial discretion, where to do so would not render people stateless.