Sentence examples for given nationality from inspiring English sources

In other words, the new ranking acknowledges that, today, holding any given nationality need not mean residing in, or even identifying with, the corresponding nation.

He had been given nationality and even voted in the referendum.

Under that law, the annual number of immigrants from a given nationality was limited to no more than 3percentt of the U.S. population, as per the 1910 census.

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The mercenaries they bring in and give nationality to can do all of this easily.

After contracting by more than 5% this year, the economy should grow by some 8-9% next year, says the IMF.Still, Côte d'Ivoire badly needs to reform land ownership, to revamp the army by integrating rival militias, and to settle arguments over citizenship by giving nationality to the many descendants of people who immigrated from nearby countries and have long resided in the country.

Like the South African Zola Budd, a white athlete who, during Apartheid, was given British nationality so she could run for Britain.

He claimed that although born in Venezuela, he was given Palestinian nationality by the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whose cause he espoused.

French intellectuals and politicians have asked that she be given French nationality and that France pay for her security after her country, Holland, stopped guaranteeing her round-the-clock protection.

Given his nationality, the fact that he has never held high office in the Vatican, and his decision to adopt the name of St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan order, whose members renounce material possessions and try to live their lives as Jesus lived his, there will be great hope invested in him.

On the contrary, there is more emigration out of countries where higher average importance is given to nationality.