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Nation in sentence

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Not only did the Jews lack a mother country, but in Europe they lived as a foreign nation, leading to expulsion and annihilation.
None of these ideas would fly, of course, in a contented nation.
Our decision more than a decade ago to surrender Ukraine’s status as a nuclear nation is the clearest sign of our good neighborly intentions and political maturity.
Objectively speaking, Ukraine today is more secure as a nation than at any time in its history.
For Trump, it is embodied in the vague term “globalism”: “We’re taken advantage of by every nation in the world virtually.
The Clean-Energy MoonshotNEW YORK – In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy stirred America and the world with these words: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
With the simplest of words, Zhu was attempting to awaken a nation, and, for China’s dictators, nothing is more subversive or terrifying than the word “choice.”
France, Germany and other core countries will probably try for a greater economic and political unification which will, in time, make this region almost indistinguishable from a nation state.
On this, admittedly subjective, measure, Somaliland qualifies as a nation.
Both are unwilling to concede that Kurds form a distinct ethnic group, let alone a nation.
An anxious nation is counseled to be resilient: “Let us not be deterred from seeing the loathing that is inflaming and filling the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Arabs who live around us….This is the fate of our generation…to be prepared and armed, strong and determined, lest the sword be stricken from our fist and our lives cut down.”
Yet, as Clinton starts "building a bridge to the 21st century", he and the nation face some difficult economic problems.
The third component is sometimes called “Sunni nationalist,” but that phrase is a misnomer, because this group’s members are less concerned with Iraq as a nation than with Sunni domination of post-Hussein Iraq and responding to what they see as personal injustices or abuses.
At least three factors will determine which path that injured nation takes.
He said agriculture was the backbone of our nation.
To be Western or Westernized, above all, is a mindset which does not coincide with any continent, nor with any specific nation or religion.
The euro demonstrates that century old rivalries among nation states can be overcome and forgotten when citizens can move across borders to do business with one another more easily.
This is of particular importance for our ideas about the European Union, where we seek an effective balance between the nation and Europe.
Last month, President Xi Jinping announced a set of sweeping economic reforms at the Central Committee’s Third Plenum, setting forth his vision of “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
Indeed, European unity is indivisible: when one nation is ostracized, all are not free.
Like Trump, Wilson would probably eschew the idealistic nation- and state-building formulas that animated US foreign policy under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
The claim is not simply that the US is, as Bill Clinton put it, the “indispensable nation,” whose global power makes it a party to all major international issues.
Sometimes, this will require extending institutions outward from nation states and strengthening global governance.
The French remain studiously aloof, even a little disdainful, as befits a nation that rejects “feminism” as an anti-feminine American creation and manages to produce a leader who is simultaneously as accomplished and as elegant as Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund.
In short, no nation on this changing, shrinking planet can truly address its own problems in isolation.
Our nation may be small, but our commitment to improving the well-being of this region is anything but.
“The United States, the creator of the postwar economic system and home of the world’s key currency,” he wrote, “has become the largest debtor nation ever known to mankind – and its red ink will continue to flow at least into the 1990s.
For starters, there was Kennedy’s vow to defend freedom for its friends and from its enemies: “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
Indeed, occupying a divided nation is messy, and it is bound to produce episodes like Abu Ghraib and Haditha, which undercut America’s attractiveness not just in Iraq, but around the world.
The second centennial goal is to transform China into a “fully developed and advanced nation” by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.
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