And pinning a nationality on investors is also brave in these days of easy and massive cross-border capital flows.
This could easily apply to a national group, an ethnic group, a nationality, but it all depends on how whoever defines it to mean.
In 2009 a Facebook campaign calling for Cornish to be registered as a nationality in the 2011 Census was backed by more than 3, 000 people.
We are going to strip criminals who have a double nationality and who repeatedly commit serious crimes, of their Dutch nationality!
The number of Dutch citizens holding a second nationality, for instance, almost tripled to 1.2m between 1995 and 2010, with newborns accounting for a significant share of the growth.
The outgoing ruling council decreed that no candidate for prime minister should have either a foreign passport or a foreign spouse, thus forcing a series of prominent returnees either to withdraw their candidacy or to disavow a second nationality.
This was much, much, higher than the negatives figures for people of a different nationality (10%), people with more money and influence (9%), people of another religion (7%), people with different interests and values (6%), or people with less money and influence (3%).
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Italy used dual nationality as a way to fight its declining population in the 1990s.
The setting is Tokyo, brooding sumptuously, and the filmmaker is Abbas Kiarostami, an Iranian by birth and nationality but a distinguished citizen of world cinema.
But those who doubted his motives for forsaking his Canadian nationality for a British passport in 1995 have been silenced by his dedication to Davis Cup.
Deportation proceedings also have started or are planned against three others: an imam of Saudi nationality, a militant Islamist from Tunisia and an imam from Turkey, the statement said.
The new RFID tag-toting documents will store all of your personal data, including name, address, nationality, a picture, a digitized fingerprint and just about every other thing crooks would need to take your identity for a joyride.
Under international law, countries including the United States that use race, color, ethnicity, religion or nationality as a proxy for criminal suspicion are in violation of international standards against racial discrimination and multiple treaties to which the U.S. is a party.
The United Nations Convention on Refugees - which defines a refugee as someone with a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion - is 51 years old.
That proof of residence is a critical document, and for many the only form of identification: Besides serving as proof of nationality and getting you a new roof over your head, it can help you get discounted provisions at government-run stores, a phone and utility hookup and a voter registration card.
After all, on 4 October 1994, within days of his storming of the Russian White House, Yeltsin issued a decree ordering the round-up and expulsion of "persons of Caucasian nationality" from Moscow, a diktat ominously reminiscent of Josef Stalin's anti-semitic actions at the time of the Doctors' Plot in 1952-53 when "persons of Jewish nationality" were incarcerated and, in many cases, eliminated.
His main reason was that, with his sort of itinerary, American nationality quickly becomes a liability.
Gonzalez's request must still be sent to Washington for approval, at which point he would receive a certificate of loss of nationality.
Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic has taken over Mr Dalli's duties on an interim basis until a new commissioner of Maltese nationality is appointed.
Asking a U.S. company to filter access to a site based on a Web surfer's nationality is "very naive, " Yang said in the interview.
Previously members of the International Brigades would have been required to give up their other nationality to accept a Spanish passport, the Associated Press reported.
But in October Trevor Brooking, the association's director of football development, said that availability and suitability and not necessarily nationality would be a factor in who replaces Italian Capello.
When I interviewed her after her press conference today, I asked Lagarde whether she felt uncomfortable that her nationality had been a large factor in her getting the job.
Half soccer pub, half punk rock bar, Churchill's is 100% one of the most interesting spots in the city, an establishment that straddles lines of income, race and nationality - in a lot of ways, a microcosm for Miami itself.
And I think it's important to hold onto that, because there is, in this sort of situation - we've seen it before when young men of Pakistani origin, for example, have been arrested over alleged terrorist-related offenses - there is a tendency to redefine their nationality in terms of their ethnic origins.
We learn today that ministers will be examining whether GPs should be obliged to check passports to assess the nationality of patients - a policing job that many doctors see as contradictory to their caring role.
The three injured crew members were taken by ambulance to a hospital in La Palma and the nationality of only one of them was immediately known: Greek.
To judge a person because of his or her nationality is like assuming that all US international lawyers support the Bush administration's definition of torture in international law.
Of the multitude of boxes a person is put in over the course of his or her life--race, nationality, economic status, age--gender is a constant that we carry with us from our first breath.
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