Sentence examples for right of abode from inspiring English sources

One is the "right of abode".

Chagossians have gained British citizenship and the right of abode.

"The right of abode is a creature of the law.

It drew up plans for democratic institutions, a legal right of abode and to own property.

A Chinese spokesman said the ruling appeared to go against a judgment on the right of abode made by the National People's Congress in 1999.

Caz Yon was one of the councillors who resigned after it became clear that property rights and the right of abode were not going to be forthcoming.

If China thinks those limits are being stretched unacceptably, it will not be the end of the matter.Then there is the right-of-abode question.

Hong Kong's Secretary for Security, Ambrose Lee, said that the government would not process or approve right-of-abode applications for domestic workers while it appealed against the ruling.

So it was that three months after the issuance of Circular No. 25, one such group would call public attention to the fact that more than 100 children were living in Hong Kong-awaiting court rulings on their bids for the "right of abode --but were not being permitted to abode --butol.

This was mass deprivation of rights of abode and equal treatment on a scale not seen since the age of decolonisation.

Mrs Chan is known to have opposed the government's decision to ask Beijing to overturn a ruling of Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal on the rights of abode of mainland children born to a Hong Kong parent: a humiliation to the court.