Sentences with phrase «become citizens of countries»

If Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, Rachel Held Evans, and the rest don't like it (Free Speech)... they're free to leave and become citizens of countries that have ZERO Free Speech Rights.

We think, in contrast to Saverin and Loyola, of Christopher Hitchens» moving essay «For Patriot Dreams,» written after 9/11, when he announces his desire to become a citizen of this country, not because he seeks any gain» he was already successful as an expatriate Brit» but because the murder of so many Americans had made him realize that he already felt the citizen's love for this nation.

Try becoming a citizen of another country... America, wake up, lets take care of our own,,, NO holidays PERIOD!

On the one hand, someone who is committing to becoming a citizen of a country should expect these requirements.

Not exact matches

If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

If you're from Russia or China or Venezuela or Mali and become a citizen of one of the 28 EU countries, you'll get a country - specific EU passport, which allows you to establish residency and do business anywhere in the EU.

Everyone can agree, of course, that one answer is for such countries as Mexico to become so prosperous that their citizens will not so desperately want to work in the United States.

Even private conversations between citizens can become the grounds of a criminal complaint in many European countries.

Here is the often thoughtful Thomas Friedman of the New York Times on the eve of last November's elections: «Let Karl [Rove] know that you think this is a critical election, because you know as a citizen that if the Bush team can behave with the level of deadly incompetence it has exhibited in Iraq — and then get away with it by holding on to the House and the Senate — it means our country has become a banana republic.

But for the future we require a dream of a world - citizen who, without denying or betraying his native land asks not how his country can become greater in power and prestige but how it can serve and be served by the total world community for the sake of the mutual survival and fulfillment of all.

No balanced portrayal of some veterans returning home to become functioning citizens or pride in serving one's country despite the outcome.

Nearly 70 percent of evangelicals believe Dreamers should be allowed to stay in the country, with 49 percent supporting a path to citizenship and 20 percent believing they should become legal residents but not citizens, Politico / Morning Consult found.

The 37 - year - old Matola, who was born in the U.S. but became a Belizean citizen in 1990, is in the tradition of eccentric, fiercely driven Western women who left behind their home countries and devoted themselves to the animals of distant places.

He said: «But because most of us will not be allowed into Europe, I think as ordinary citizens, we will have to make some very hard choices, whether we want to use violence to get somebody into power; of which we won't get any of the trickledown effects, destroy our country and become refugees somewhere else.

If a proposed idea reaches a certain number of up - votes then all citizens of a country are able to directly cast their votes and if the majority of citizens agree with the proposed bill, then it becomes a law.

These are two trends which become fertile environment for various sorts of crises in which its stabilizing role will be called to play for the sake of saving Russians abroad or philo - Russian citizens in these countries, or for gaining a foothold in a situation to which the EU attaches much significance.

Over half a million UK citizens world wide have their State Retirement Pension frozen at the rate it first becomes payable in the country of their retirement.

«Two years ago, New York became the largest state to enact marriage equality, and since then we have seen a growing recognition across the country that all citizens deserve equal rights under the law, regardless of sexual orientation,» Cuomo wrote.

Buhari added that his administration will continue work relentlessly to ensure that Nigeria becomes the dream country of every citizen.

The country was deeply involved in the Presidential election, and now concerned citizens must become equally invested in the outcome of midterms.

He added that «But because most of us will not be allowed into Europe, I think as ordinary citizens, we would have to make some very hard choices, whether we want to use violence to get somebody into power; of which we won't get any of the trickle down effects, destroy our country and become refugees somewhere else.»

«The Mayor believes voting is the most important right we are granted as citizens and you should have to go through the process of becoming a citizen and declaring allegiance to this country before being given that right.

«As a Latina who recently became a citizen, I know firsthand the challenges that many in this country face,» Ms. Praeli wrote, «including fear of deportation, and Hillary is committed to fighting against Republican attacks to tear families like mine apart.»

I am a young man growing up to live in a country where the development of the country rest on the shoulders of everybody.I always become confuse especially when disasters like flood occurs in this nation of ours.One of the problem we have as a nation is a deliberate attempt of us as citizens to shift our responsibility to the central government.People might say because of the fact that they pay tax, government must take responsibility of everything that concerns us.My question is can any government take responsibility of our life?NO.

Queens Assemblyman Francisco Moya spoke of undocumented immigrants in the military who he said proudly serve the country — he gave the example of his father, a Vietnam War veteran who immigrated from Ecuador and became a citizen not too long ago.

First of all, you can become a victim of on - line dating scam and second, you need to know that obtaining a visa for the citizens of the former Soviet Union countries is not easy.

is a movie about many things — a person figuring out her priorities, a reminder of the treatment of women in countries where a religion's rules treat them as second - class citizens, a study of the addictive nature of high - pressure and dangerous situations, a biographical account of a reporter's experience covering a war, a consideration of how the news can abandon one battlefield for another when the public's attention becomes distracted.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a movie about many things — a person figuring out her priorities, a reminder of the treatment of women in countries where a religion's rules treat them as second - class citizens, a study of the addictive nature of high - pressure and dangerous situations, a biographical account of a reporter's experience covering a war, a consideration of how the news can abandon one battlefield for another when the public's attention becomes distracted.

Hanushek was careful to state that the goal was not to strengthen U.S. performance at the expense of other nations: The creation of well - educated citizens does not constitute a «a zero - sum game that countries or states are playing against each other,» but one in which every country and state can become more productive, and create more wealth for one another by boosting and sharing their talents.

In the education process the students are prepared to become citizens not only of one country but of the world (global citizens).

From country to country, the process of becoming a citizen varies immensely.

«[The ICCS] report, Becoming Citizens in a Changing World, reveals that students» civic knowledge has increased in about half of the 24 countries that participated in ICCS in both 2009 and 2016,» rd reports.

Selling product to a half billion citizens in 27 countries may have become a little easier as of May 2009 with the implementation by the European Parliament...

Her new book, The Republic of Imagination, bears some of the hallmarks of that success — literary criticism blended with personal history — but it flips the equation, offering an assessment of Nafisi's adopted country (she became an American citizen in 2008) through the lens of her passion for literature.

These factors are the norm in international corporate and political issues, however, and will become the challenge ahead to draw new taxation codes that don't leave citizens of one or another country feeling ripped off by multinational business arrangements.

So Sweden may become the first country where its citizens may have to accept negative interest rates (probably in the form of higher bank charges or fees) or be forced to spend their money in order to «save» it from those rates.

I have to wonder why a country such as Norway, that claims so many responsible dog owners, does not trust its citizens when it comes to dog breeds that have more of a capacity to inflict harm if they become aggressive due to negligent owners?

El - Sissi also asked Egyptian citizens to contribute to the expansion of the Suez Canal, saying they would become stakeholders in their country's future, and the citizenry provided funding for much of the project out of their own pockets.

Warning and relocating thousands or millions of citizens when a storm is approaching would be a massive hurdle for any country — and in the case of a developing nation like the Philippines with nearly 100 million citizens spread out across thousands of islands, the hurdle becomes bigger still.

The measures taken by Tokyo, one of the world's largest cities, to secure the health and safety of its citizens could become a useful model for other Asian countries.

Congrats on becoming a citizen of the lucky country.

«Africa has become a global hub for the growth of clean, renewable energy, and many visionary leaders of African countries are making the decision to harness the power of the sun to create a brighter future for the citizens of their countries,» said SkyPower President and Chief Executive Officer Kerry Adler.

COAL - fired power plant closures have become the order of the day for Australia's virtue - signalling and global warming theory - obsessed political class who think that destroying the country's industrial heartland, and imposing crippling energy - poverty on its citizens is a worthwhile price to pay for «saving the planet».

If the citizens of this planet became serious about survival of our species (which they are not at present), they could «bite the bullet» and replace that existing infrastructure with the low carbon equivalent; they have taken similar losses in wartime to save their countries.

a nation of remarkably productive, often well - paid workers who are becoming increasingly reluctant to pause from their labors and refresh their souls — a nation whose cash - drenched corporate employers typically don't pay for much time off (less than two weeks annually, on average), a nation whose globe - gripping federal government is the only one in the whole industrialized world not to legally require generous periods of paid kick - back - and - hang time — is a nation that's socially screwed up, particularly in comparison with European countries like France, which orders its citizens outside to play for the entire month of August and a few other weeks spread through the year.

Most countries (e.g. the U.K., South Korea, Russia, Japan, Spain, Mexico, France) have a much more centralized law enforcement bureaucracy, which is fine when the people are the top are scrupulously non-corrupt, but which also makes it much easier for the rot of corruption to become geographically widespread and hence unavoidable from the point of view of an individual citizen.

An EEA citizen who becomes a UK citizen has the right to bring a non-EU spouse into the country, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

A Canadian citizen who became a citizen of a foreign country before that date should contact Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

As she wrote in her internship application materials, «As an immigrant who came to this country 12 years ago, I understand the complexities of the legal system and the overwhelming pride to become an American citizen.»

... In the early case of The Charming Betsy (1804) it appears to have been assumed by this court that all persons born in the United States were citizens of the United States, Chief Justice Marshall saying: «Whether a person born within the United States, or becoming a citizen according to the established laws of the country, can devest himself absolutely of