citizen

Example Sentences

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The electoral system offers the most powerful corrective mechanism available to citizens.

From Los Angeles Times

Over the past two decades, as Europe’s economy slumped, the EU shifted from focusing primarily on integrating its markets to other objectives, such as working to protect citizens’ online privacy.

From The Wall Street Journal

They were received at the border by two Indian citizens, who escorted them into the northeastern state of Meghalaya before handing them over to two accomplices.

From Barron's

Meanwhile, the Home Office said Angola and Namibia had agreed to step up efforts to take back their citizens, having been threatened with sanctions alongside the DRC.

From BBC

Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants.

From Salon