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Example sentences for "nation"

Lexicographically close words:
nather; nathing; nati; natif; natiff; national; nationales; nationalisation; nationalised; nationalism
  1. Three Cardinals of one nation who don't want to have anything to do with Papal Infallibility!

  2. Some ten of the leading Bishops of different nations have formed themselves into an International Committee, so as not, for the future, to ask concessions of the Pope in the name of one nation only--the French or German.

  3. The Pope can also give full authority to make slaves of a foreign nation merely because they are not Catholics.

  4. However, Italian priests and prelates feel and know right well what every nation and national Church owes to itself.

  5. The decisive point with them is their relation to the Italian nation and government, for the Infallibilist dogma must inevitably lead to a hopelessly incurable rupture between it and the Church.

  6. The address will probably be subscribed by the Bishops of each nation in separate batches, so that there will be five addresses, coinciding in substance.

  7. So all the good, wise and noisy men of the nation were induced by diverse means to cry out against the strikers and their union.

  8. The Farmers' & Merchants' Bank is the local instrumentality of the invisible government that holds the nation in its clutch.

  9. Just as our fathers had to face the enmity of the Indians, so are these men called upon to face the fury of the predatory interests that have usurped the richest timber resources of the richest nation in the world.

  10. This was probably the easiest thing of all because the grip of Big Business upon the law-making and law-enforcing machinery of the nation is incredible.

  11. The capitalist press did yeoman service in this cause by deluging the nation with a veritable avalanche of lies.

  12. The thieves who had invaded the resources of the nation had long ago seized the woods and still held them in a grip of steel.

  13. The nation will never be ruined by rewarding such men!

  14. A whole nation is at this moment expiating the decadence and the downfall of the Court of Vienna.

  15. Belgium which will curse the dominions which have enriched the nation at the expense of the King's children.

  16. The German nation has fallen into the pit dug for it by Imperial Prussia.

  17. But, as a matter of fact, there is no nation on earth at once more metaphysical and less philosophical than the German nation.

  18. I do not hesitate to specify this inalienability, for I know how great is the value of the Congo, and I have, in consequence, the conviction that this possession will never cost the Belgian nation any lasting sacrifice.

  19. He had lived in the last days of what we may call the Anglo-French nation, the old feudal nation that had been established when the Norman and the Angevin made French the language of court and market.

  20. He loved his Queen a little because she was the protectress of poets and an image of that old Anglo-French nation that lay a-dying, but a great deal because she was the image of the State which had taken possession of his conscience.

  21. The magnanimous integrity of their politics, and their own gallant impetuous minds, needed no commendation among the young Irishmen for whom I wrote, and a very little dispraise of their verses seemed an attack upon the nation itself.

  22. As the Spartan mother gave character to her nation by the instructions she gave her child, so you give character to your religion, your church, your home, by the spiritual culture of your offspring.

  23. John Quincy Adams, even when his eloquence thundered through our legislative halls, and caused a nation to startle from her slumber, bent his aged form before God, and repeated the prayer of his childhood.

  24. Had the central heart of the Spartan home been that of the Christian mother, the Spartan nation would now perhaps adorn the brightest page of history.

  25. We owe to the family, therefore, what we are as a nation as well as individuals.

  26. The proposal was received with general applause by all present: they did not make the very obvious reflection that when a nation admits into its bosom an ally more powerful than itself, it admits at the same time a conqueror.

  27. A great mass of warriors from every nation of the West, men who certainly had never intended to go on pilgrimage themselves, were roused to what seems a somewhat perverse anger of religious devotion.

  28. Guarding against it he obtained recognition as the King of the nation and, so far as he could understand them and the attitude of the nation allowed, he maintained the usages of the nation.

  29. Judith at fourteen years of age became Ethelwulf's second wife, and when the old King died two years later, to the amazement and scandal of the nation married her stepson Ethelbald.

  30. It would be wrong to impute to the Conqueror any intention of deceiving the nation by maintaining its official forms while introducing new principles and a new race of administrators.

  31. The constitutional result is the creation of several intermediate links between the body of the nation and the king, in the place of or side by side with the duty of allegiance.

  32. Strict hereditary claims to the choice of the nation had been disregarded since the time of the Confessor.

  33. So in a few years the Frank magistrate could unite in his own person the beneficiary endowment, the imperial deputation, and the headship of the nation over which he presided.

  34. The nation of the Franks and Charlemagne himself were but of yesterday; the new Emperor had neither ancient senate to hedge at the same time that it obeyed him, nor old bodies of troops to support him.

  35. He obeyed the call of the nation without delay and without manifesting surprise.

  36. They believe that no nation was ever discovered, among those of antiquity, to have been so wild or ignorant as not to have acknowledged a divinity, or as not to have known and established a difference between good and evil.

  37. The "nation" was made before the President existed: indeed, the nation made the President.

  38. I fear a nation of extortioners are unworthy of independence, and that we must be chastened and purified before success will be vouchsafed us.

  39. If our coat-tails were off, we should, in nine cases out of ten, be voted a nation of sans cullottes.

  40. So the truth they crushed to earth on the Chickahominy has risen again, and the Yankees, like the Cretans, are to be known henceforth as a nation of liars.

  41. All this goes to show that the Blackfeet nation and Crows were always enemies.

  42. The ocean is the highway between tribe and tribe, or nation and nation, just in proportion as there is the skill, the experience, the courage and the necessary equipment for using it.

  43. It has long been known that the nation which inhabits Greenland and Labrador is the nation which inhabits the North-western parts of Russian America as well.

  44. His people once went towards sunrise to fight with the Sikir-washi, who are the nation called Galla at Zanzibar.

  45. The Parecis formerly the predominant nation of the Mata Grosso is now nearly extinct, and from want of data, its ethnological import is undetermined.

  46. A nation of women, however, forming a section of their population, has yet to be discovered.

  47. A nation that, within the historical period, has always encroached upon others is more likely to be the invader, in a given instance, than a nation which has not been known so to be in the habit of extending itself.

  48. This is a class taken from the Atlas Ethnologique of Balbi, wherein we find a short specimen of the language or dialect of each nation enumerated as belonging to it.

  49. The only fact which to me seems incontestible is that, at an early period in the Chinese history, a non-Chinese nation was known under the name of Hiong-nu.

  50. The Sikani (or Secunnie) nation has a language radically the same, but with greater difference of dialect, passing gradually into that of the Beaver and Chippewyan Indians.

  51. Yet they at length became more philosophic, and said they understood that this was a visitation which the nation had deserved.

  52. There is a German army doctor who knows his business very well, they say; and his reputation has already spread so far among the men of our all-nation sailors and marines that they all ask for him.

  53. In fact, patriotism and practical helpfulness to the Nation ran rampant through his whole family.

  54. Tell him I am a Field Secretary of the National Business Men’s Phalanx, lately organized to express the collective business sentiment of the Nation to the law-builders at Washington,” replied the Field Secretary.

  55. And I went on to say that what Chicago people as a whole thought about it I didn't know and I didn't care, but so far as my experience went the English were the loveliest nation in the world.

  56. You can look that up," momma replied; "but my belief is that it was presented to the Duke by a grateful nation after his demise.

  57. Of course," I said, "I mean the loveliest nation after Americans.

  58. The wisest of men could hardly attend to rules which an unconceived Jahveh would lay down for an unborn nation centuries later.

  59. The Whigs were at this time become popular with the nation at large, and possessed the confidence of the thinking and honourable portion of the people.

  60. The new ministry began to act so decided a part, that they no longer kept the nation in any suspence as to what course they would pursue.

  61. Your nation is at the highest point of prosperity; what can it hope from war?

  62. Thus did the united voice of the nation produce the dismissal, or, in other words, cause the resignation of the Duke of York from the situation of Commander in Chief, in spite of a corrupt ministerial majority in the House of Commons.

  63. In fact, the whole nation was mad; and as drunk with fear now, as they had been in the commencement of the war with France with folly and boasting.

  64. These were some of the evils naturally attendant upon the bad policy as well as wickedness of one nation going to war to put down and destroy the liberty of another!

  65. When the nation which held it was defeated in the open field, the city (unlike Babylon and Nineveh) submitted to the conqueror without a struggle.

  66. Even the fame and glory of empire would attain, in the minds of men, almost as much to the one nation as the other.

  67. The origin of the Median nation is wrapt in a profound obscurity.

  68. Our historical knowledge of the Medes as a nation commences in the latter half of the ninth century before our era.

  69. The primitive Modes seem to have been a nation of horse-archers.

  70. The Minister is highly complimented by the gracious words of our Lord, and declares that the Greeks love no other nation on earth beside the Moors: yes, my Lord.

  71. He is welcome," answered the Sultan, graciously; "we love no nation better than the Greeks.

  72. And notwithstanding the way in which the strong oppress the weak, as a nation they are by no means treacherous or cruel; on the contrary, the average Moor is genial and hospitable, does not forget a kindness, and is a man whom one can respect.

  73. Who but a nation of nomads, accustomed to obey the call to prayer beneath the waving branches of African and Arabian palm-groves, would have dreamed of raising such a House of God?

  74. Holding its women in absolute subjection, the Moorish nation is itself held in subjection, morally, politically, socially.

  75. Here have been fanned and fed the great religious and political movements which from time to time have convulsed the Empire, and here the pulse of the nation throbs.

  76. The Moorish remains in Spain, as well as the pages of history, testify to the manner in which they once flourished, but to-day their appearance is that of a nation asleep.

  77. One feature of this cosmopolitan city is that there are distinct cafés for almost every nation represented here except the English.

  78. The first is the suitability of any given form to the surroundings and exterior conditions of life of the nation adopting it, and the second is the moral or social effect on the community at large.

  79. They were the amalgam which, by coalescing with the scattered factions of their race, had bound them up together and had formed for once a nation of them.

  80. The policy of "grab," and dabbing the world with red, may be satisfactory up to a certain point, but it will be well for us as a nation when we realize that we have had enough.

  81. In the same way the fighting spirit of a whole tribe or nation may be aroused by the invasion or seizure of a small and unimportant bit of land, or by the chance of its possession.

  82. It seems strange that such a very practical nation should have made such a foolish law, but so it was; and on this occasion it once more led, as it was bound to do, to an utter defeat.

  83. But his turn was slow in coming, and for eight years he remained inactive in England, while the nation was recovering as best it could from the strain of the Peninsular War.

  84. If he had been able to see any English papers he would have known how eagerly the nation followed his footsteps, and how warmly they rejoiced in his success.

  85. From the first he had borne their burden alone, and owing to the treachery and baseness of his own nation in the end it proved too heavy for his shoulders.

  86. No nation could continue at so enthusiastic a pitch.

  87. The great public got a notion into its head that a set of gloomy, vicious persons had conspired to corrupt the youth of our nation by writing immoral plays.

  88. Filon to write dramatic criticism about a nation where such notions have prevailed for half a century.

  89. If it had not been for Virginia and Maryland and the South, this nation would not be in existence.

  90. The nation is going to the dogs," he said, mumbling rather to himself than to the others.

  91. If the nation could have heard him, he would be President to-day instead of that miserable Buchanan.

  92. He says that for years we have written in our histories and taught in our schools that this nation is a transplanted England; that the institutions which have made this country distinctively great were derived from England.

  93. The starting of all these masterful influences would alone make a nation great.

  94. But the chief difference between Cambridge and Oxford is in the spirit and influence of the two upon the nation and the world, and here the glory of Cambridge excelleth.

  95. It was the first nation to place the reader and the spelling-book in the hands of the child, irrespective of station or means.

  96. It taught commerce and merchandise to the entire world when it ranked as the only great commercial nation on the globe.

  97. It was the first nation to master the soil and teach agriculture to the world.

  98. Their first delirious outburst of huge building operations has been explained as "a legitimate explosion of the delight and the hopes of a young nation anxious to show its power.


  99. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ally; blood; breed; brood; chieftaincy; citizenry; clan; class; colony; commonweal; commonwealth; community; constituency; country; county; culture; domain; dominion; duchy; dukedom; empire; estate; everybody; everyone; family; folk; gens; gentry; house; inhabitant; kind; kingdom; land; line; lineage; mandate; men; monarchy; nation; nationality; order; people; persons; polis; polity; populace; population; possession; power; principality; protectorate; province; public; race; realm; republic; satellite; sept; settlement; society; species; state; stem; stirps; stock; strain; sultanate; superpower; territory; totem; tribe; world


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    national authority; national banks; national character; national committee; national currency; national drama; national economy; national education; national feeling; national game; national highway; national income; national industry; national institution; national interest; national life; national monument; national policy; national power; national pride; national scale; national self; national sovereignty; national spirit; national wealth; nationalize slavery