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Nation in sentence

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And, in the venerable country said by Marx to be the political nation par excellence, politics is becoming a subspecies of soccer, with its teams, fans, referees, and high scorers.
The Balkans cannot be reconstructed on the basis of nation states.
A 1979 Gallup Poll had shown that 62% of Americans regarded inflation as the “most important problem facing the nation."
Whether it is the Chinese for the global economy, or Russia for nuclear disarmament, the United States will now work with whomever can help it get the results it wants – thus ensuring that it remains the “indispensable nation.”
In reality, power remains in the hands of the military high command and political and economic conservatives who have for years determined the nation's direction.
Both are near mythic places that supposedly embody the authentic character of the nation.
By slashing the funding for the institutions which created that civilization, Cameron has guaranteed that tomorrow’s Britain will be a nation not of world-class politicians, writers, and cultural innovators, but of wonky technocrats raised on bad TV, with little influence beyond their tiny island.
If what has been cut is not restored, Cameron and his ideological heirs will create a nation of quiescent citizens who, like their US counterparts, are better suited to a society whose official policies are more directly aligned to the will of corporate interests.
Monuments compose the body of a nation on display.
Seemingly a testament to the nation's proud history, this banknote carries a hidden message.
Even the Copenhagen summit on climate change ended just the way China wanted: failure in its attempt to commit China, or any other industrial nation, to making significant cuts in carbon emissions, with the United States getting the blame.
Removing it will in some respects be the most important task for May, who expresses what surely is a sincere desire to unite the nation.
They will worry – and they are right to worry – that a situation of extreme peril, a veritable threat to the nation, was required before the French recovered their senses and took the path of reason.
But what caused the nation to right itself?
He had no doubt about which vision would win out: “Yearly one nation after another would drop into the union which best suited it; and looking to the commercial activity of the Teutonic races, and the comparative torpor of the Latin races, no doubt the Teutonic money would be most frequently preferred.”
The peaceful demonstrations of 1989 gave millions of Chinese people their first heady taste of political freedom, and a hope that they could have a say in their nation's public life.
Taking such steps is not easy; it requires courageous political vision, looking beyond the interests of ruling cliques to the future of the Chinese nation.
This is the only starting point for a long-overdue political reform that is an absolute necessity if China is to enter the 21st century as a truly great nation and a responsible member of the international community.
Recently they could commit their crimes with impunity, bludgeoning their nation's judicial system into submission.
The lesson of earlier periods is that populism thrives in environments where longstanding sources of identity – for example, class or nation – have weakened.
Designed to assist in fulfilling the right to water in the most impoverished nation in the Western Hemisphere, these loans and the lives they could have saved instead have become pawns in a deliberate political power play.
This fear derives from two sources: the Party's lawless governance and an awareness of the way in which society has been defoliated of the shared assumptions that normally give a nation cohesion.
Moreover, all Pacific countries have a real desire to normalize their relations with a nation growing at such an astounding rate.
East Asians entered the modern world of nation states in self-consciously discrete secular units.
Meiji Japan grasped the advantages of making the nation a macrocosm of the family.
An imperial order in 1890 outlined the objectives of education: the Confucian concepts of loyalty, obedience, and filial piety were to be transferred from the family to the nation.
During the past century, the post-Confucian states have accustomed themselves to a pluralistic world of theoretically equal nation states.
Yet the refugee crisis has revealed that the EU’s western and eastern members do not share the same concept of a nation.
The ideals of globalization, which emphasized cross-border interconnectedness, are being replaced by a framework of “every nation for itself.”
The cosmopolitan elites have stabbed “us” in the back; we are facing an abyss; our culture is being undermined by aliens; our nation can become great again once we eliminate the traitors, shut down their voices in the media, and unite the “silent majority” to revive the healthy national organism.
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