Sentence examples for determine their status from inspiring English sources

People violating them by arriving illegally are detained while we determine their status.

More than 500 survivors from that shipwreck arrived on Thursday in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, where they will receive assistance and be processed to determine their status.

She bungles the plot; the slaves are on trial not for murder, but to determine their status as humans or property.

Under Italian law, immigrants can be held for up to 180 days to determine their status, and much longer if they are seeking asylum.

The delegation's leader, Dr. Shakeel Ahamad, said the president seemed surprised when he was told that 500 people were still missing, and that the state had made no effort to determine their status.

There are outstanding military regulations that provide for a hearing for someone captured on the battlefield to determine their status.... JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA -- What would you expect the military to do?

Officials from both sides will meet over the next few days to go over enrollment records of the 295 contested voters to determine their status--and thus eligibility--at the time of the election.

People no longer believed that ancestry or religion determined their status in life.

Under European Union law, the country where immigrants arrive is responsible for determining their status.

Under current regulations, the European country where immigrants first arrive is responsible for determining their status.

Article 5 of the third Geneva Convention requires that if there is any doubt regarding the status of captured combatants, they must be treated as prisoners of war until a "competent tribunal" determines their status.