It came under intense scrutiny in July 2002 when the Washington Post alleged in an editorial that the program was vaguely defined, and investigative political journalist Ritt Goldstein observed in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald that TIPS would provide America with a higher percentage of ' citizen spies ' than the former East Germany had under the notorious Stasi secret police.

After the end of filming of The West Wing, Sheen announced plans to further his education: " My plan is to read English literature, philosophy and theology in Galway, Ireland, where my late mother came from and where I'm also a citizen.

Governor of New Jersey Jim McGreevey announced his decision to resign, publicly came out as " a gay American " and admitted to having had an extramarital affair with a man, Golan Cipel, an Israeli citizen and veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces, whom McGreevey appointed New Jersey homeland security adviser.

A candidate to become a Member of Parliament must be a British or Irish or Commonwealth citizen, must be over 18, and must not be a public official or officeholder, as set out in the schedule to the Electoral Administration Act 2006 ( this was a reduction in the lower age limit, as candidates needed to be 21 until the law came into effect in 2006 ).

Famous people who visited and lived in Vernon include: Alexander Campbell, founder of the Christian Church and Bethany College ; Henry Ward Beecher came to Vernon early in the Civil War and made a plea for Lincoln and the Union at the Courthouse ; and Lord Flanigan, English nobleman, was a one time a citizen of Vernon.

He came to the United States in 1977 and became an American citizen on 4 July 1986.

In 1935, two years after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, Iona von Ustinov began working for the British intelligence service MI5 and became a British citizen, thus avoiding internment during the war.

Speaking in Seanad Éireann Costello told senators that as a matter of law, the King was indeed " King of Ireland " and Irish head of state and the President of Ireland was in effect no more than first citizen and a local notable, until the new law came into force.

After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, and, as a foreign citizen, he was no longer allowed to work, he operated for a time in Holland ( doing mostly commercial work ) before moving to London in 1935.

Later still the word came to refer to other nations, ' not a Roman citizen '.

The scam came to light when 41-year-old Nigerian citizen, Olatunji Oluwatosin, was detected attempting to gain access to personal data held by ChoicePoint.

In 1981, shortly after becoming a United States citizen, Navratilova came out publicly about her sexual orientation.

When he was asked where he came from, he replied, " I am a citizen of the world ( cosmopolites )".

The film won Tiomkin significant recognition in Hollywood, and came out the same year he became a U. S. citizen.

Similarly, Georg Rickhey, who came to the United States under Operation Paperclip in 1946, was returned to Germany to stand trial at the Mittelbau-Dora war crimes trial in 1947, was acquitted, and returned to the United States in 1948, eventually becoming a U. S. citizen.

Learning of the impending invasion, Athens quickly came to the aid of Thebes by sending a force of about 200 cavalry and 5, 000 men ( both citizen and mercenary, including hoplites and peltasts ) under the command of the Athenian strategos Demeas and mercenary commander Chabrias.

In Canada, the term " British subject " was replaced by " Commonwealth citizen " when the Canadian Citizenship Act 1947 was replaced by the Citizenship Act 1977, which came into force on 15 February 1977.

A citizen who made a proposal might be subjected to a future prosecution ( graphe paranomon ) if the proposal was illegal or came to be seen as detrimental to Athens.

Historically, many came with the British military or as civil servants, with many marrying locals, and registering as Gibraltarians themselves, although any British citizen resident on The Rock for at least six months may vote.

In November 1859, López was on board the war steamer Tacuari-this came under attack by British Royal Navy ships, in order to pressure his father to release a British citizen from prison.

After the passports had been collected one of the crew members came onto the intercom and asked for Michael John Thexton, a British citizen, to come to the front of the plane.

Her father, Max Posener, was a naturalized American citizen from Prussia, who came to the United States in 1876.

According to Mark Glaser, during 9 / 11 many eyewitness accounts of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center came from citizen journalists.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.

He should be, as Dag Hammarskjold certainly was, a citizen of the world.

This means an added burden to innumerable postmen, who already are complaining of heavy loads and low pay, and it presumably means an increased postal deficit, but, our correspondent writes, think of the additional junk mail each citizen will now be privileged to receive on a regular basis.

Extraordinary precautions were taken so that no stranger be allowed in the city and no citizen within the enclosure surrounding the scaffold.

He declared that any citizen found bearing arms could be court-martialed and shot, and that slaves of persons aiding the rebellion would be freed.

An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed by a subject or a citizen to his / her state or sovereign.

Where territory is occupied in the course of hostilities by an enemy's force, even if the annexation of the occupied country is proclaimed by the enemy, there can be no change of allegiance during the progress of hostilities on the part of a citizen of the occupied country ( R v Vermaak ( 1900 ) 21 NLR 204 ( South Africa )).

A natural-born subject owes allegiance wherever they may be, so that where territory is occupied in the course of hostilities by an enemy's force, even if the annexation of the occupied country is proclaimed by the enemy, there can be no change of allegiance during the progress of hostilities on the part of a citizen of the occupied country ( R v Vermaak ( 1900 ) 21 NLR 204 ( South Africa )).

Unlike officeholders, the citizen initiator was not vetted before taking up office or automatically reviewed after stepping down — it had after all no set tenure and might be an action lasting only a moment.

But any stepping forward into the democratic limelight was risky and if someone chose ( another citizen initiator ) they could be called to account for their actions and punished.

Socrates happened to be the citizen presiding over the assembly that day and refused to cooperate ( though to little effect ) and stood against the idea that it was outrageous for the people to be unable to do whatever they wanted.

Under Pericles, in 450 BC, restrictions were tightened so that a citizen had to be born from citizen parentage on both sides.

Paul asserts his right, as a Roman citizen, to be tried in Rome.

* In the Judge Dredd comic stories, originally published in 2000 AD, the megalopolis of Mega-City One consists of many hundreds, if not thousands, of City Blocks, in which a citizen can be born, grow, live, and die without ever leaving.

For example, it may be meaningful to speak of an action as being good for someone as an individual but bad for them as a citizen of their town.

Adam Smith illustrates this view, saying that a smuggler would be an excellent citizen, "... had not the laws of his country made that a crime which nature never meant to be so.

After the prohibition, any citizen caught practicing capoeira, in a fight or for any other reason, would be arrested, tortured and often mutilated by the police.

In the first place the tributum, or property-tax, had to be paid by each citizen according to the amount of his property registered in the census, and, accordingly, the regulation of this tax naturally fell under the jurisdiction of the censors.