Sentence examples for extended citizenship from inspiring English sources

It provided education and, in 1949, extended citizenship to Palestinians; indeed, a majority of all Palestinians became Jordanian citizens.

Central to this has been the decay of political mechanisms that extended citizenship, allowing immigrants, over time, to become part of the broader society.

As nation-states with centralized governments extended citizenship rights in the 18th century, state sponsorship of schools began to supersede the church-supported instruction that had become the norm in the 16th and 17th centuries (see Education, history of: Central European theories and practices).

On Thursday, Ecuador revealed that it had extended citizenship to Assange, a controversial figure who moved into London's Ecuadorian embassy to evade extradition to Sweden back in 2012.

In 212 AD, by means of the edict known as the Constitutio Antoniniana, the emperor Caracalla extended citizenship to all freeborn inhabitants of the empire.

Most legal scholars sided with Cruz because Congress had extended citizenship at birth to children who were born abroad to American parents.

As a congressman, Gardner co-sponsored a federal "personhood" bill that extends citizenship rights to embryos.

They also see benefits for their own parties: Republicans want to stop alienating Hispanics; Democrats want to extend citizenship to millions of likely Democratic voters.

Under their 1866 treaties with the United States, the five nations agreed to abolish slavery and extend citizenship and equal rights to emancipated slaves and their descendants.

Mr. Brooks has been outspoken against immigration legislation, including a House Republican's failed proposal to extend citizenship to so-called Dreamers — Latinos brought into the United States illegally as children — if they joined the military.

The greatest of these was Kazembe II, known as Kaniembo (reigned c. 1740 60), who conquered most of the territory that the kingdom eventually occupied, extending citizenship to those he conquered and establishing the complicated network of tribute and trade that held the vast kingdom together.