The phrase "a citizen without" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who lacks a certain quality, status, or possession typically associated with citizenship.
Example: "He felt like a citizen without a country after moving abroad for so many years."
Alternatives: "a person lacking" or "an individual devoid of".
2. Both of you have said the Constitution does not allow a president to detain a citizen without charges as an enemy combatant.
According to the government rules, if a citizen without access to water calls an emergency number of the Delhi Jal Board, it is mandatory for the water board to send a tanker in response within three hours.
Anybody who holds a valid UK passport is a British citizen, but it is possible to become a citizen without a passport - most commonly when born to a parent who is a British citizen at the time.
Re "McCain's Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out" (news article, Feb. 28): Surely "natural-born citizen" means a person who is born a citizen without a need to be "naturalized".
Mr. Soberanis was brought to this country at the age of 7. Because he overstayed his tourist visa, he cannot hope to become a citizen without first returning to Guatemala for a period of up to 10 years, then applying for a visa to return.
Invoking Washington, Jefferson and Madison's names, he suggested that the founders would be appalled to see such executive branch powers as the right to imprison a citizen without charges or legal counsel so long as the president has declared him an "enemy combatant".
Hexcel Corp., a maker of reinforced plastics for aircraft, paid a $203,000 penalty for releasing information about carbon fabrics to a Taiwanese citizen without a license.
Only 38 countries will let in a Chinese citizen without a visa.
As a UK citizen without a green card, he is barred from all Level 2 tournaments in California, as well as any nationals and sectionals.
That argument works sometimes yesterday another judge in the same courthouse ruled that it's legal to wiretap a US citizen without a warrant in certain circumstances but it didn't hold up here, possibly because of the hardships suffered by the no-fly listers who sued the government.
The clandestine assassination of an American citizen without a trial sparked a legal and moral debate last year that echoed a similar one after 9/11 as lawmakers drafted the now controversial Patriot Act.
