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Nation in sentence

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Israel has occupied and colonized the Palestinian West Bank, which is approximately one-fourth (28.5%) the size of the nation of Israel as recognized by the international community.
The first stage, that of creating the regime’s legitimizing myth, generates a heroic demiurge, the father of the nation.
The very word “defense” creates an image of a nation state that is commercially connected to the rest of the world only via traditional trade.
As the old African proverb goes, if you educate a girl, you educate an entire nation.
As a nation of laws, the US can hardly afford to operate outside the scope of a rules-based global trading system.
According to this vision, the EU’s inhabitants had the nation to lose and a continent to gain.
But some recent election results indicate that they are more worried about losing the nation.
Denmark’s wind industry is almost completely dependent on taxpayer subsidies, and Danes pay the highest electricity rates of any industrialized nation.
Missing AmericaBERLIN – Madeleine Albright, the former US secretary of state, once described the United States as the “indispensable nation.”
India is not, of course, the only nation to retain severe punishments for homosexuality.
Having received at least tentative approval from the US for its policy, India still faces two further obstacles: an acceptable agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and an exemption from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a 45-nation body that – until now – has barred nuclear trade with any nation that refuses to accept international nuclear standards.
Central myths about Putin the healer of the nation and the supplier of giveaway budgets are collapsing.
The new/old politics is inward-looking and likes the idea of the revival of the nation as a protective bulwark against foreign goods and foreign migrants and foreign ownership.
If a relatively open global system is to survive in a world where nation states are the principle decision makers, it will have to be managed and guided not just to achieve efficiency and stability (important as these goals are), but also to ensure that its benefits are distributed equitably between and within countries.
Thirty years ago, I wrote a book called The Expanding Circle, in which I asserted that, historically, the circle of beings to whom we extend moral consideration has widened, first from the tribe to the nation, then to the race or ethnic group, then to all human beings, and, finally, to non-human animals.
Prominent academics warn that China could fall victim to the dreaded “middle-income trap,” which has derailed many a developing nation.
Which group, society, nation, or religion speaks about us openly as their enemy.
Gorbachev’s wife, Raisa, stunned the nation not only by appearing in public, but by being fashionable and expressing opinions of her own.
In Europe, Germany is obviously the indispensable nation, yet it lacks not only a clear mandate to lead, but also a clear sense of what the European Union should look like after the great projects of peace, the common market, and enlargement are more or less completed.
The walls were covered in vapid quotations from the hollow speeches of “the master of the nation.”
But it does not directly impinge upon the vital interests of any EU nation.
According to Article 9 of the constitution, drafted by American lawyers in 1946, when Japan was under Allied occupation, Japan renounces “war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.”
As he put it, “[W]e’re a nation with an economy.
The internet has provided ordinary Chinese with access to the real story as well as to a public voice, which means that they can be a powerful ally in efforts to effect change in the most populace nation on earth.
Europe's autonomous nation states have already passed important elements of their sovereignty to supranational decision-making through the Treaty of Europe.
But this should not go too far, for there are limits to what the state can do, and the strength of private initiative constitutes one key aspect of America, which became the world’s leading nation thanks to its dynamism, flexibility, and individual inventiveness.
Is the German government’s willingness to issue more debt and run bigger deficits limited because the market recognizes and penalizes nation states that allow their fiscal positions to weaken?
Some still take the form of a “state of nation states.”
Such a federal state can be justified by claiming that the moral substance of traditional nation states has been deeply compromised by past belligerence, or as a practical preventive measure to keep the potential of new nationalist passions in check.
From this technocratic perspective, Brussels today maintains functions that even within nation states are often delegated to institutions that are not democratically elected.
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