Sentence examples for citizen passage from inspiring English sources

Does this mean that we should deny US citizen passage to and from the United States because a few might abuse that right to travel?

He might have followed the example of Chen Si, who on weekends patrols the Yangtze River Bridge, a preferred jump-off for Chinese citizens seeking passage from this life to the next.

All this was terminated by Pinckney's Treaty (Treaty of San Lorenzo) in October 1795, in which Spain embroiled in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars agreed to set the U.S. southern boundary at latitude 31° and conceded U.S. citizens free passage on the Mississippi and tax-free storage of goods at New Orleans.

At the ceremony, Mr. Clinton said Mr. Dart had "literally opened the doors of opportunities to millions of our citizens by securing passage of one of the nation's landmark civil rights laws".

We had it carried live on the air to show the disgusting attitude of some Selma residents who opposed the demands of citizens to win passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that President Lyndon Johnson eventually signed into law.

Though Kirsch writes that ordinary citizens "will never draft a law or vote on its passage," the citizens of Montana and Colorado put forth and passed initiatives limiting corporate spending in elections.

In a legislative season that has had little substantive action, the Senate has approved a plan to make passage of citizen initiatives more difficult, and the House is not far behind.

Such a result makes sense of Rousseau's famous passage: "Each citizen, in giving his suffrage, states his mind on that question [concerning what the general will is]; and the general will is found by counting the votes.

President Rouhani has pledged to actively pursue the passage of citizen's rights legislation in the Iranian Parliament.

How did citizens react to its passage?

You'll recognize passages from Citizen, but it is not an attempt to stage Citizen".