Sentence examples for membership because of from inspiring English sources

The US is pushing hard for its membership, because of its strategic location next to Iraq.

Mr. Rowe said Exelon would not renew its membership because of the chamber's "stridency against carbon legislation".

Albania and Croatia seem certain to be invited to join NATO at Bucharest, but Greece is holding up Macedonia's membership because of a dispute over the country's name.

The prime minister said it was right to renegotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership because of the rapid changes brought about by the crisis in the eurozone.

He opposes membership because of requirements to abolish the death penalty and to ease curbs on the use of the Kurdish language by the country's ethnic Kurds.

The only members who have lost membership because of testimony were those who were found, after thorough investigation, to have testified inaccurately or fallaciously.

Direct discrimination involves the imposition of disadvantages "based on" or "on account of" or "because of" membership in some salient social group.

The truth is that the UK's cities have prospered in spite of our EU membership, not because of it".

Still, many labor experts had been expecting an actual decline in membership, largely because of a sharp drop in manufacturing jobs, especially in the automobile industry.

Though the Balkan countries were told eight years ago that they could join the process of European integration, Serbia was prevented from even starting membership talks because of its failure to arrest Mr. Mladic.

Greece managed to keep within the strict Maastricht rules for eurozone membership largely because of complex financial deals created by the investment bank which critics say disguised the extent of the country's outstanding debts.