Sentence examples for conferring citizenship from inspiring English sources
Cardinal Mahony would go further, conferring citizenship immediately to members of the armed forces serving in the war on Iraq and issuing it to all others when they are honorably discharged.
In addition, Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, conferring citizenship on all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteeing them equal protection under the law.
Perhaps 100 invited guests, from as far away as New Orleans and Korea, offered a warm ovation as Mayor Nir Barkat of Jerusalem read a laudatory resolution conferring citizenship from a parchment scroll held by the singers.
Rather than conferring citizenship on the interred, the authorities merely wanted to make it clear that civilians, rather than soldiers, had been buried there during Arlington's earliest days, before it was restricted to the military.
This week, it has emerged that the home secretary is planning to considerably increase her department's use of legal powers that allow serious criminals with dual nationality to have their British citizenship withdrawn, effectively conferring citizenship only when it is "conducive to the public good" (and removing it when it is not).
As Lindsey Graham and his fellow Republicans explain it, their sudden turn against conferring citizenship on anyone born in the United States was prompted by the mortal threat of "anchor babies" -- the children of foreigners who scurry to the States just in time to give birth to U.S. citizens.
Being born in Japan does not automatically confer citizenship.
A passport does not confer citizenship, retorts Mr Ouattara.
As the Roman Republic expanded, it conferred citizenship in varying degrees to many of those within its enlarged boundaries.
Irish immigrants, or Irish citizens who were not born on the island, cannot automatically confer citizenship to their children.
Most of the developed nations in the world set some limits on birthright citizenship, frequently requiring one parent to be a citizen to confer citizenship on a child.
