Sentence examples for citizenship setting from inspiring English sources

In July, a federal judge stripped him of his American citizenship, setting up his deportation.

The government quit amid infighting over a failed attempt to strip Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the prominent Somali-born critic of Islam, of her Dutch citizenship, setting the stage for elections likely to be dominated by immigration issues.

In a broad order that has reverberated across the hemisphere, the court has instructed the authorities here to audit all of the nation's birth records back to June 1929 to determine who no longer qualifies for citizenship, setting off international alarm.

With the price for citizenship set at $300,000, the Commonwealth of Belle Isle would exist as a sort of free-market paradise; within 30 years, the group's Web site predicted, the island would be known as the " 'Midwest Tiger,' rivaling Singapore as an economic miracle".

Troubled by the fact that so few Americans actually know what the Declaration of Independence says, Danielle Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship, set out to explore the arguments of the Declaration, reading it with both adult night students and University of Chicago undergraduates.

The irony in a childhood tale about a young Ferrera being coached to handle questions about her citizenship set off a short wave of laughter at Thursday's event.

Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green, observed that founding this country without giving blacks citizenship set a powerful background for exclusion and discrimination, and requires an equally powerful idea to dislodge those practices.

Political strategy led the Conservative party into dark corners this election: banning the niqab at citizenship ceremonies, setting up snitch lines for "barbaric cultural practices," creating second-class citizenship in the terrorism laws and reading lists of "the enemies of Israel" at rallies.

They fled the country in 1983 just ahead of a long list of federal charges, renouncing their citizenship and setting up shop in Switzerland.

Related: This Canadian Criminal's Fight to Regain Citizenship May Set a Precedent For New Citizenship Laws.

Phil Woolas's latest proposals regarding "earned citizenship" look set to build on the worst features of the current system, as the confusion of citizenship with conformity reaches its apotheosis.