But it was different when appeals to the chivalry and bravery of Irishmen alternated with deductions from the famous phrase about "the rights of small nations.
The Allied statesmen seemed to be committed beyond any possibility of denial or evasion to "the rights of small nations," "government by the consent of the governed" and other formulae of national freedom.
To uphold the rights of small nations, freedom of speech and press, to punish military terror, to establish an international order based on right as against might--these were things for which free men everywhere should gladly die.
Recall all that we wrote and talked about the sacredness of the rights of small nations--and still in certain cases talk and write.
The present war is not a war for the defense of the national inviolability or for the liberty of small nations.
The American Government has always appealed to right and justice, has always come forward as the champion of small nations.
The National Idea in Belgium and the Problem of Small Nations.
It raises the whole question of the value and significance to civilisation of the existence of small nations.
During the lecture on the Problem of Small Nations in the European Crisis, Professor Masaryk outlined his political programme which he has ever since insisted the Allies should adopt, to destroy the German plans of Mitteleuropa.
First and foremost the Allies are fighting for the liberties of small nations, to the end that they may be left in future free from the tyranny of their more powerful neighbours to develop their own national life and institutions.
Kramár advocated the liberation of small nations as proclaimed by the Entente.
Profiting by Irish sympathy with righteous causes Britain, at the outbreak of war, attracted to her armies tens of thousands of our youth ere even the Western Hemisphere had awakened to the wail of "small nations.
In the fourth year of a war ostensibly begun for the defence of small nations, a law conscribing the manhood of Ireland has been passed, in defiance of the wishes of our people.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small nations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
