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How to use the word Citizens in a Sentence? Page #11

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August 31st is not a cliff. After August 31st, we believe that we have substantial leverage to hold the Taliban to its commitments to allow safe passage for American citizens, legal permanent residents and the Afghan allies who have travel documentation to come to the United States.

Jake Sullivan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We will coordinate very carefully to make sure that it's safe for American citizens to come to the airfield, if it's not, we'll tell them to hold, and then we'll work other ways to try to get them to the airfield.

Frank McKenzie

Found on CNN
2 years ago

At that point, we went back to the emergency hospital, and they were bringing the casualties in there. There was just body after body. It was a really terrible sight, you have tens of thousands of people cramming in from every angle at the same time, this desperate pressure to get the American citizens and others out. So it was really truly a recipe for disaster.

Matthieu Aikins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Jen Psaki said in a previous briefing to contact the White House with names of stranded American citizens…so we did.

Jonathan Wilcox

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Congressman Issa and staff are aware of the location of several American citizens in Afghanistan, and we have been in direct and consistent contact with them. They are scared, stranded and trapped in the Kabul area. So far, they’ve been unable to reach the airport. I know Jen Psaki has previously said this isn’t happening, but she’s dead wrong.

Jonathan Wilcox

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Only a sociopath, such as Andrew Cuomo, would think that David Gilbert, a man who participated in a heinous attack on law-abiding citizens and law enforcement alike, deserves to be eligible for parole, when the book is written on Andrew Cuomo, apart from leaving office in disgrace, his legacy will be a New York that has released unrepentant cop killers, child rapists, murderers, and terrorists. My only hope is that when all is said and done, the final chapter finds him in a jail cell.

Mike Lawler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Qatar has been asked to mediate the conflict between the Taliban and the U.S. and Afghan. And we remain that impartial mediator throughout this process, and we maintain the contact with all the parties which has now helped us in supporting different foreign citizens who are living there in Afghanistan. Right now we are trying to facilitate the movement of the people from their places to the airport and the transportation.

Al Thani

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The great citizens of a country are not those who bend the knee before authority but rather those who, against authority if need be, are adamant as to the honor and freedom of that country.

Albert Camus

added by Normando
2 years ago

We've made an agreement with the Taliban. Thus far, they've allowed them to go through, we know of no circumstance where American citizens — carrying an American passport — are trying to get through to the airport.

Though Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Given the ongoing failures witnessed in Afghanistan, it will be incumbent upon Mayor Emanuel to demonstrate strongly his ability to represent America’s vital interests in the region, and to protect the thousands of our citizens that are in Japan on any given day under the U.S. Ambassador’s Chief of Mission authority just as I did, the Japanese people have an incredible spirit and a deep love for the United States, and I have no doubt that they look forward to welcoming the next U.S. Ambassador.

Bill Hagerty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

President Biden is either divorced from reality or he’s intentionally misleading the nation about what is actually happening in Afghanistan, the evacuation process is a nightmare. It is unconscionable that the most powerful nation on earth won’t guarantee the safe passage of American citizens, instead choosing to put their fate in the hands of the Taliban.

Thom Tillis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I hope and pray that that interpreter, we find a way to get them out, my experience is if we get them here, they do everything right to become good U.S. citizens.

Brad Wenstrup

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

American citizens, Hank Taylor embassy personnel, individuals designated by the State Department as [ Special Immigrant Visa ] applicants and other evacuees in coordination with the State Department.

Hank Taylor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our team in Doha and our military partners on the ground in Kabul are engaging directly with the Taliban to make clear that we expect them to allow all American citizens, all third-country nationals, and all Afghans who wish to leave to do so safely and without harassment.

Wendy Sherman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Some of our citizens are still under the debris. We have teams of foreigners and Haitians working on it.

Ariel Henry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Right now there are troops at-risk. We are the United States military, and we will successfully evacuate all American citizens who want to get out of Afghanistan, they are our priority #1. In addition, we intend to evacuate those who have been supporting us for years, and we are not going to leave them behind. And we will get as many out as possible.

Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Once we get more airlift out of Kabul, we're going to put as many people on those planes as we can. There will be a mix, not just American citizens but perhaps some Afghan SIV applicants as well.

The Pentagon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

But the one thing that confounds me is the lack of planning, the lack of execution by this administration in withdrawing these forces, general Jack Keane has talked about why did we do this during the height of fighting season, why do seemingly have no plan in place for tens of thousands of people, tens of thousands, who helped us over the last 20 years. I also hear reports we have duel citizens -- dual citizens, American citizens who are potentially still there. It looks chaotic, it looks mismanaged, and the things that’s concerning to me is that this administration looks caught by surprise.

Morgan Ortagus

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And the troop deployment was the lead across all the network nightly newscasts on Thursday evening. ABC's David Muir : on the groundA small number of correspondents for Western news outlets are in Afghanistan and are giving voice to the citizens there. For example, CNN's chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward filed a report from Kandahar last weekend. Flash forward a few days, and she says.

The State Department

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Given the security conditions and reduced staffing, the Embassy's ability to assist U.S. citizens in Afghanistan is extremely limited even within Kabul.

The Taliban wave

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The U.S. Embassy urges U.S. citizens to leave Afghanistan immediately using available commercial flight options.

The US Embassy in Kabul

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Given the security conditions and reduced staffing, the Embassy's ability to assist Nicole Ferrara citizens in Afghanistan is extremely limited even within Kabul.

Nicole Ferrara

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So, the Party now compiles dossiers on millions of foreign citizens around the world, using the material that it gathers to influence, target, intimidate, reward, blackmail, flatter, humiliate, and ultimately divide and conquer.

Matthew Pottinger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

States that took a different approach, that followed the science that took a balanced approach, and that trusted their citizens, did a lot better.

Assemblyman Kevin Kiley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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