Sentence examples for claimed citizenship from inspiring English sources

Article 35 also states that presidential candidates must have never claimed citizenship in another country.

Newell finds that second- and third-generation Indian slaves fought their enslavement and claimed citizenship in cases that had implications for all enslaved peoples in eighteenth-century America.

He was barred from participating in the 2000 presidential election by similar restrictions, including one that prohibited anyone from being a presidential candidate if they had ever claimed citizenship of another country.

Mr. Sheinbein, who was born in the United States and had never lived in Israel, successfully claimed citizenship because his father was born in what was then British-ruled Palestine.

He travelled 6,000 miles via Russia and Mongolia to the West German embassy in Beijing, where he claimed citizenship.

Josephus wrote about places where Jews claimed citizenship based on ancient privilege.

Thus, Curtis argued, they were members of the nation and could not now be denied the right to claim citizenship.

Some immigration experts have suggested that because Begum's parents are from Bangladesh, she could claim citizenship there.

But Margaret Thatcher had changed the rules, lopping off a generation: foreign-born children of a Briton could claim citizenship, foreign-born grandchildren could not.

As many as 6 million people in the UK have an Irish grandfather or grandmother, which entitles them to claim citizenship in the Republic.

"They were 'white' when they attempted to claim citizenship, 'Hindoo' when selling exotic goods, 'black' or 'Porto Rican' when disappearing into U.S. cities or actively attempting to evade the immigration authorities".