Sentence examples for asked for repatriation from inspiring English sources

Over the years, the Noongar asked for repatriation of the head, both for religious reasons and because of Yagan's traditional stature in the culture.

At the end of the 20th century, Britain asks for the repatriation of the "Papadopoulos steel".

Other requests for repatriation have not gone as smoothly, especially when museums were asked for valuable burial artifacts that they have carefully preserved.

Simon Jeffery @robertotail asked for Omar Khadr The Canadian government said its Washington-backed decision not to seek the repatriation of Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr, (15 when US forces captured him in Afghanistan) made it "politically impossible" for the country to take in the Uighur former detainees the US was unable to return to China.

In 1990, Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which required museums and other institutions to inventory their collections and to return items of cultural patrimony if tribes asked for them back.

"The police first asked for my ID, which I didn't have," he said, adding that he hadn't been allowed to gather his belongings before he was taken to a repatriation centre.

Last Friday, the Canadian Supreme Court heard arguments about whether the Harper government could be required to ask for Khadr's repatriation.

Transparency may not end every demand for repatriation.

The demand for repatriation can only be understood as nationalist theatre produced purely for political spectacle.

Aged 17, the woman would have been too young to get a bank loan in the UK, but she was required to sign the loan agreement with the Foreign Office as she could not cover the costs of her repatriation herself or ask for family help.

Hardly, according to experts who say the calculus of repatriation involves less cut-and-dried measures like the outlook of the museum and its board, the institution's public relations needs at the moment, the identity of the donor of the disputed item and even the identity of the country that is asking for its return.