9 sentences with 'citizens'
Example sentences and phrases with the word citizens and other words derived from it.
• « The Retired Volunteers patrol is made up of 750 citizens who, in vehicles with official identification, prowl the streets, stake out shopping center parking lots, and check temporarily uninhabited homes to deter burglars. »
• « This is not to say that national issues are less important to the citizens of any particular country. »
• « Through incredible engineering, the hard work of Roman citizens and Roman subjects, and the massive use of slave labour, they constructed remarkable buildings and created infrastructure such as roads and aqueducts that survive to this day. »
• « The bloodbath that followed resulted in approximately 55 million deaths, including the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and at least 25 million citizens of the Soviet Union, another "racial" enemy from the Nazis' perspective. »
• « Greek citizens could only be members of a single polis, and citizens had some kind of role in political decision-making. »
• « Other free citizens could vote in many cases either in the election of officials or in the passing of laws, the latter of which were usually created by a council of elders (all of whom were aristocrats) - the elders were called archons. »
• « All adult male citizens had one vote in the public assembly, while a smaller council handled day-to-day affairs. »