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Example sentences for "whole people"

  • It is a serious attempt to deal with a problem involving the liberties of a whole people, and will be, as far as the writer can make it, straightforward, dignified, and candid.

  • Those who know that men usually cling more to their habits than to their life will doubtless admire this great though obscure sacrifice which was made by a whole people.

  • There is an amazing strength in the expression of the determination of a whole people, and when it declares itself the imagination of those who are most inclined to contest it is overawed by its authority.

  • A whole people, without contradicting or murmuring, still depend upon the prophet.

  • From this also it is evident that a destruction of the temple in a literal sense cannot be entertained; for how could a whole people be buried under its ruins?

  • For a full half century he was the voice of England, loved and honored as a man and a poet, not simply by a few discerning critics, but by a whole people that do not easily give their allegiance to any one man.

  • They have found their way into the hearts of a whole people, and there they speak for themselves.

  • For nearly half a century Tennyson was not only a man and a poet; he was a voice, the voice of a whole people, expressing in exquisite melody their doubts and their faith, their griefs and their triumphs.

  • A single individual might thus perpetuate slavery in defiance of the expressed will of a whole people.

  • A single individual might thus perpetuate slavery in defiance of the expressed will of a whole people.

  • The long advocacy and support of slavery in the political arena had fevered her whole people, and finally, under these promptings to a national life, politics absorbed nearly all of her intellectual powers.

  • A few weeks later he said that the bluster of a few irreconcilables should not be exaggerated into the threatening voice of a whole people.

  • The Radical papers seized upon the silly things said or done by the idlers of bar-rooms and street corners or printed in the small newspapers and magnified them into the "threatening voice of a whole people.

  • Utopia, founded on the idea of a community of goods among a whole people.

  • That the pride, the folly, the presumption of a single person shall be able to involve a whole people in disgrace is more than philosophy can teach mortal patience to endure.

  • It stigmatised a whole people, he remarked, as persecutors of innocence, and as men incapable of doing justice, whereas the very reverse was the fact.

  • This at one time had been the doctrine of his friend, who had said, with great energy and emphasis, that he could not draw a bill of indictment against a whole people.

  • It is the aspect of a whole people as an organized power.

  • It is not a question of the British Government, but of government by the Nation--the Nation which is the organized self-interest of a whole people, where it is least human and least spiritual.

  • The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution; the condition of the masses is reflected from the surface of a record.

  • In the same way is the general discourse of a whole people modified.

  • It is the same old difficulty of generalising about a nation or drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

  • It is the occasional caricature--the parody--of the national type that catches our eye; and on him we too often base our judgment of a whole people.


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


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been for; civil court; colored women; constant succession; flour enough; local origin; long rope; sieve they; that church; whole allspice; whole day; whole family; whole force; whole frame; whole holiday; whole host; whole life; whole night; whole numbers; whole sentence; whole series; whole soul; whole story; whole wheat; whole world; your mind