Sentence examples for citizens withdrew from inspiring English sources

Most citizens withdrew from politics seeing their role only as voting once in four years.

Such was the reaction that American citizens withdrew their consent.

Most of the conversion will take place as citizens withdraw new money from the bank and get euro change back from stores when they make purchases.

Such preoccupations were sufficient for fashionable minds in a nation concerned with foreign affairs and public scandals but were not wholly satisfactory later, when the individual citizen withdrew into himself to search for fulfillment through jogging or cuisine minceur.

Australia, which had appealed for clemency and had offered to pay for the prison costs of its citizens, promptly withdrew its ambassador in protest.

Davis, one of the most vociferous critics of the state's powers to collect data on its citizens, quietly withdrew from the case after his appointment to the cabinet.

In 2010, he urged citizens to withdraw their money from banks en masse.

In a signed statement, Mr Adebolajo says: "We hope that one day Great Britain will replace those corrupt politicians with men or women who truly care about the security of their citizens by withdrawing from affairs of Muslims, including their lands".

The Greek president, Karolos Papoulias, said citizens were withdrawing their money amid "great fear that could develop into panic" at the risk of a debt default and exit from the euro area, according to minutes of their meetings posted on the presidency's website.

Since citizens can withdraw from the Central Provident Fund, Singapore's version of Social Security, to buy homes and fund their children's education, Singapore also has the highest home ownership rate in the world a stunning 85%.

This was a reference to the hill to which the plebs (common citizens) of Rome withdrew en masse in 494 BC as an act of civil protest.