nationality

Example Sentences

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Suriname didn’t allow dual nationality, which prevented the national team from tapping into the significant pool of Dutch-born players who might otherwise qualify through their Surinamese parents or grandparents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

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

Researchers from University of Oxford's Migration Observatory say it is difficult to draw conclusions about the relationship between crime, migration and nationality because of a lack of reliable data.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

Given name, nationality, date of birth...she turned herself upside down.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye