Word Finder - nation

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A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

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The Kurdish people constitute a nation in the Middle East

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A sovereign state.

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Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.

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An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity.

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Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland.

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A great number; a great deal.

It was purchased for the nation in 1892.

Every nation retains its peculiar dress.

This would be the case in a besieged city or a nation using the food supply to keep its citizenry in check.

If the nation goes to war, the military would need more C2000s, right?

Green says "The rights which the barons claimed for themselves they claimed for the nation at large."

As the nation grew, so did what came to be called the American Dream.

When few people own land and most people live in cities, it is quite common to have high degrees of hunger in a nation that is exporting food.

Above all Italian character must be reformed and the nation educated.

On the 25th of March he made a striking speech upon the state of the nation, especially upon the dangers to Protestantism and the misgovernment of Scotland and Ireland.

He was the only king of Bohemia who belonged to that nation, and the only one who was not a Roman Catholic.

Godollo is the summer residence of the Hungarian royal family, and the royal castle, built in the second half of the 18th century by Prince Anton Grassalkovich, was, with the beautiful domain, presented by the Hungarian nation to King Francis Joseph I.

Not less noticeable is the tenacity with which isolated fragments of the nation have preserved theirpeculiar characteristics, language, customs and traditions.

To him as a prophet the question was whether Israel as a nation could be saved.

Three separate capitals must be discriminated Pavia, the seat of the new Lombard kingdom; Ravenna, the garrison city of the Byzantine emperor; and Rome, the rallying point of the old nation, where the successor of St Peter was already beginning to assume that national protectorate which proved so influential in the future.

Only, while they are hopeless about their nation they have absolute faith in Yahweh and His purpose.

Once a nation shows its willingness to seize foreign-owned property at will, foreign investors are reluctant to do business there again.

In the past, war could increase your financial position, both as a nation (through spoils) and a soldier (through plunder).

It is only necessary for one powerful nation like Russia--barbaric as she is said to be--to place herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the world!

The two sections of the Argentine nation contrived to exist as separate governments without an open breach of the peace until 1859, when the long-continued tension led to the outbreak of hostilities.

The central authority of Pavia had always been weak; the regno had proved insufficient to combine the nation.

It was regarded as having conferred upon the nation nothing less than the English constitution in its perfect and completed form.

The enthusiasm of the nation he had saved forgot his tardy adhesion to the popular cause, and at the parliament of Ayr on the 25th of April 1315 the succession was settled by a unanimous voice on him, and, failing males of his body, on his brother Edward and his heirs male, or failing them on his daughter Marjorie and her heirs, if she married with his consent.

The time of respite had been wasted, all attempts at national reformation had failed; how should Yahweh spare a nation which had shown no tokens of fitness to discharge the vocation of Yahweh's people ?

The Norman power in England was founded on full and speedy union with the one nation among whom they found themselves.

The final and all-important act of selection from among these men was, however, to be made by a personage, styled the proclamateur-electeur, who chose all the important functionaries, and, conjointly with the notabilities of the nation, chose the members for the Council of State (wielding the chief executive powers), the Tribunate and the Senate.

Every one now looked to the crown to extract the nation from an ex-lex, or extra-constitutional situation, but when the king, passing over the ordinary party-leaders, appointed as premier Count Karoly Khuen-Hedervary, who had made himself impossible as ban of Croatia, there was general amazement and indignation.

Mr. Pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the rights of man, is sentenced to...

Kings held a secondary position, and were generally regarded as adventitious tyrants, rather than as the heads and representatives of the nation.

But this very important stage in the history of a nation is not defined or clearly illustrated.

To the senate, thus chosen "from above," was allotted the important task of supervising the constitution, and of selecting, from among the notabilities of the nation, the members of the Corps Legislatif and the Tribunate.

This fell far short of his desires, and he now dexterously referred the whole question to the nation at large.

But before referring to this last proof of the Machiavellian skill of the great Corsican in dealing with plots, it is needful to notice the events which brought him into collision with the British nation.

You will be the sovereign of a generous nation of eleven millions of men and of important colonies."

I am but the magistrate of the republic. I merely act upon the imagination of the nation.

Now at the close of 1812 matters were worse, and Napoleon, on reaching Paris, found the nation preoccupied with the task of finding out how many Frenchmen had survived the Russian campaign.

Santini's Appeal to the British Nation (London, 1817) and the Manuscrit venu de Ste Helene d'une maniere inconnue (London, 1817) are forgeries.

Pitt called him "an execrable, a sole minister who had renounced the British nation."

This may, however, be due to the fact that their contact with civilization was so short; the Yue-Chi and Turks had had some commerce with more advanced races before they played any part in political history, but the Ephthalites appear as raw barbarians, and were annihilated as a nation in little more than a hundred years.

The Panorama had a large circulation and influence, and Herculano's biographical sketches of great men and his articles of literary and historical criticism did much to educate the middle class by acquainting them with the story of their nation, and with the progress of knowledge and the state of letters in foreign countries.

The nation continued to look up to him for mental leadership, but, in his later years, lacking hope himself, he could not stimulate others or use to advantage the powers conferred upon him.

In 1853 he accepted the position of secretary of war in the cabinet of President Pierce, and for four years performed the duties of the office with great distinction and with lasting benefit to the nation.

Louis Napoleon was taken into favour as England's faithful ally, and in a whirlwind of popular excitement the nation was swept into the Crimean War.

His great anxiety, however, was that the British nation should not be committed to any unworthy course during the progress of that struggle.

The king is the head of the executive, the supreme commander of the armed forces of the nation, and shares the legislative power with the parliament.

They were now to suffer severely for their past misdoings, but unfortunately the innocent nation was forced to suffer with them.

But the nation was no longer to be cowed.

The exhaustion of the nation from its protracted civil and foreign wars, the extinction of the decline (1711court of the Transylvanian princes where the native 1772).

Merchants from every nation found protection and good faith in the Khazar cities.

In 1460, during the reign of the fourteenth Caran Shyri, or king of the Cara nation, Hualcopo Duchisela, the conquest of Quito was undertaken by Tupac Yupanqui, the Inca of Peru; and his ambitious schemes were, not long after his death, successfully carried out by his son Huayna-Capac, who inflicted a decisive defeat on the Quitonians in the battle of Hatuntaqui, and secured his position by marrying Pacha, the daughter of the late Shyri.

They form the core of the nation and the main part of the army.