nationality

Example Sentences

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To be eligible for asylum, a non-citizen had to demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution in their home country due to their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

We were able to combine these two datasets using fields common to both of them, including date of arrest, gender, age, nationality, location and method of arrest.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, there is no statistical evidence linking the nationality of a commercial driver to safety outcomes in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Russia's embassy in Belgium said it had not been officially notified of the tanker's detention, nor informed about the nationality of its crew.

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026

The new science knew no boundaries of language or nationality, at least not within western Europe, within the world of the printing press, gunpowder weaponry, the telescope and the pendulum clock.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton