Sentence examples for won citizenship from inspiring English sources

Tavarez later apologized, but he has not exactly won citizenship awards since.

Almost all these indicators have gotten steadily worse since 1967, when indigenous Australians won citizenship.

Sharif won citizenship in 2007 – and ever since he has tried time and again to bring his family to Britain.

Long before they won citizenship — which would take years — many of today's 11 million illegal immigrants would be able to lawfully register as residents.

For close to the surface lies a political racism that harks back 150 years to the time of Reconstruction, when African-Americans won citizenship rights.

Her workers are also happy to have won citizenship papers for 3,000 people.

"We won't stop fighting until we win citizenship for every single new American," Lorella Praeli, the group's advocacy and policy director, said in a statement.

In addition, 3 Maccabees (1st century bce) is a work of propaganda intended to counteract those Jews who sought to win citizenship in Alexandria.

So people of distant German descent, for instance, in the ex-communist countries of the east, can readily win citizenship in the old fatherland.

Dr. Dean said he supported the philosophy behind the idea but was concerned that young Hispanics would enlist in the military as a route to winning citizenship.

"We are determined to win citizenship, not only for Dreamers, not only for immigration youth, but for all of the undocumented," Cristína Jiménez, the managing director of United We Dream, said in a conference call Monday.