How to Use citizenship in a Sentence
citizenship
noun- The students are learning the value of good citizenship.
- She applied for Polish citizenship.
- He was granted U.S. citizenship.
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Are Indiana counties asking voters about proof of citizenship?
— Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Oct. 2024 -
That eliminates the citizenship issues dividing the two parties.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022 -
Most people surveyed said religious service attendance is not imperative to good citizenship.
— Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022 -
And the full rights of citizenship in the state should be, and are, the very same for Arabs as for Jews.
— Avi Shafran, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024 -
The new process could put many of them on a path for U.S. citizenship in a few years.
— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 18 June 2024 -
The Price of a Passport What is lost when citizenship is sold.
— Alex Clapp, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024 -
First, move out of the U.S. and renounce your citizenship.
— Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023 -
The cost of applying for U.S. citizenship is about to rise.
— Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2024 -
The Supreme Court affirmed and said that the citizenship question had to be stricken.
— Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2023 -
Economic costs and lack of citizenship led them all to let go of their dream.
— Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 20 May 2024 -
Notably, the gender and citizenship of the band's make-up seems exact to that of Fleetwood Mac.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2024 -
Cubans may apply for a green card after one year, putting them on a path to citizenship.
— Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024 -
Baum didn’t have to give up his German citizenship, thanks to a law that passed last Thursday.
— Nadia Scharf, The Indianapolis Star, 4 July 2024 -
Democrats, meanwhile, want to give many migrants a faster path to citizenship.
— Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024 -
One of the men has Dutch nationality, two were born in Lebanon and the fourth has Egyptian citizenship.
— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2023 -
There, she was also set to receive honorary citizenship from the port city.
— Carita Rizzo, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2023 -
The very concept of corporate personhood is a hack of the 14th Amendment, which lays out the rules of citizenship and the rights of citizens.
— Bruce Schneier, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023 -
Two of the construction workers on the bridge had Guatemalan citizenship, according to the consulate of Guatemala, which did not release the workers’ names.
— Brian Bushard, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024 -
Under the changes, the process for obtaining citizenship has also been sped up.
— Sophie Tanno, CNN, 27 June 2024 -
While the birthright citizenship provisions in Section 1 earned a lot of time in debate, Section 3 was also the subject of an intense back-and-forth on the floor.
— Steven Portnoy, ABC News, 29 Dec. 2023 -
Putin signed a decree in May to speed up access to Russian citizenship for Ukrainians.
— Marlise Simons, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023 -
For example, living overseas for part of the year may change your visa status or path to citizenship.
— Candace Smith, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2023 -
He was ordered to wear an electronic bracelet for four months, take a citizenship class for €300 and remain employed.
— Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle, New York Times, 4 July 2023 -
In the same year she was granted citizenship by Saudi Arabia.
— Nadia Leigh-Hewitson, CNN, 28 Dec. 2022 -
Trump has revived his pledge to end birthright citizenship and his push to use the U.S. military to attack foreign drug cartels.
— Jonathan J. Cooper, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2023 -
The bill would not have provided a path to citizenship for people who lack legal status.
— Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024 -
The cathartic experience led him to reclaim his identity as a German Jew and his German citizenship.
— Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2024
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