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Example sentences for "whole nation"

  • Whenever it makes the best sense for us to act as a whole nation, the Federal Government should and will lead the way.

  • To change a whole nation from a basis of peacetime production of implements of peace to a basis of wartime production of implements of war is no small task.

  • We have met to discuss briefly the meaning of that marvelous record of a whole nation's search for God, the Bible.

  • It is because rich men misuse their wealth, trample justice under foot, and prostitute a whole nation's conscience.

  • Aye, he is the crafty, vicious, gold-imbruted manifestation of a whole nation's greed!

  • But during those long centuries there developed that world wonder, a whole nation's united longing for a deliverer!

  • Shall any man hereupon ground a generall reproch against a whole nation?

  • Where I would willingly demaund with what honestie men can impute that vnto the whole nation, which is hard and skantly true of these fewe poore men?

  • We call them prophetic dreams when they concern important matters and have reference to a whole nation or nations, and come to pass in the distant future.

  • But if a whole nation witnessed an event, it is no longer doubtful, unless we suppose that the account itself is due to one writer, and the event never happened.

  • Surely, even when we speak of the history of the Greeks or the Romans, we know that we shall not find there a complete picture of the social, intellectual, and religious life of a whole nation.

  • We know very little of the intellectual life of a whole nation, even during the Middle Ages, ay, even at the present day.

  • One would imagine, that one single sight of this kind to be seen, or heard of, in a whole nation, would be sufficient to deter parents from the practice.

  • No Government can possibly withstand the bloodless opposition of a whole nation.

  • Disarmament and consequent emasculation of a whole nation lest an armed nation might imperil the lives of a handful of you in our midst.

  • And as no government in the world can possibly put a whole nation in prison, it must yield to its demand or abdication in favour of a government suited to that nation.

  • Its two great principles, the equality of men before God and the dignity of honest labor, roused a whole nation of freemen.

  • The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was read by a select few, but Scott's Marmion and Lady of the Lake aroused a whole nation to enthusiasm, and for the first time romantic poetry became really popular.

  • Of the completion of that stupendous Conquest which began at Hastings, and which changed the civilization of a whole nation, this is not the place to speak.

  • What must it be when a whole nation, during nine long ages, offers to Heaven the most sublime virtues in the midst of the extremest trials?

  • Never was the ingenuity of man so taxed to destroy a whole nation as in the measures adopted by the Protector for that purpose.

  • In society, citizens form a bank of interest; in our country we form a family of endearing attachments; it is charity, the love of one's neighbor extended to a whole nation.

  • A whole nation, cured of the delirium of superstition, must be inaccessible to the impulse of fanaticism.

  • In the sudden reform of a whole nation, accustomed to live by abuses, each individual displaced should bear with patience his privations, and submit to a change of habits.

  • It is like the King sending two men to take a whole nation by the beard!

  • But even Zulus, being but two, cannot go on fighting all day against the might of a whole nation, and surrounded on all sides.

  • It is now the Lo-Ammi period for the whole nation of the Twelve Tribes, and they shall continue to be disowned of God nationally (not as individuals) until they as a nation acknowledge and own their long-rejected Messiah.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whole nation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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