Sentence examples for granted passports from inspiring English sources

On Friday, only hours before the two leaders met, China granted passports to the mother and brother of Chen Guangcheng, the blind lawyer and activist whose flight from China last year turned into a diplomatic drama between the two countries.

While the Chinese government granted passports to relatives of Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer who sought asylum in the United States last year, a Chinese court on Sunday sentenced a brother-in-law of Liu Xiaobo, the persecuted Nobel Peace Prize winner, to 11 years in prison on trumped-up charges of fraud.

The process of granting passports in the region was stopped amid fears that Abkhazia would be destabilised by such a large number of ethnic Georgian citizens.

This system has been used 52 times in the past five years, most often to grant passports to musicians and sportsmen and women.

This year, Chinese officials did not grant passports to many monks who wanted to attend, but they did loosen restrictions in other areas — Tibetans from Yunnan Province reportedly were allowed to attend for the first time.

Ukrainian lawmakers are investigating reports that Russia has been granting passports en masse to ethnic Russians living in Crimea, a tactic Moscow used in the Georgian breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to justify intervention to protect its citizens.

The king gave himself a veto, and the right to dissolve the council, while his ministers redistricted the country to the Sunnis' advantage and allegedly tilted the communal balance by granting passports to thousands of Sunni immigrants.In response, the mainly Shia opposition boycotted elections in October 2002, leading to a low turnout and a heavily Sunni-dominated parliament.

Cromwell was charged with treason, selling export licences, granting passports, and drawing up commissions without permission, and may also have been blamed for the Cleves failure and the failure of the foreign policy it accompanied.

We're still waiting to see if some of our athletes are granted British passports by the Home Office.

Records released by Brussels showed that 193,900 people were granted UK passports over the year – nearly one in four of those issued across all member states.

BEIJING — The mother and older brother of Chen Guangcheng, a prominent rights advocate who fled to the United States last year, were both granted Chinese passports on Friday, allowing them to start applying for visas to travel to the United States to see Mr. Chen.