Sentence examples for nation from high-quality English sources.

• And we are a great nation."

• “We are a nation of laws,” we say.

• In 1955 Walcott joined the Nation of Islam.

• Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche a Tibetan monk, and Lina Cappa of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

• “I believe America can and must be that nation.”

• “We learned that we, Ukrainians, are a great nation.”

• In 1997 Hanson formed a new political party, One Nation.

• A state comprising or dominated by a single nation is often called a nation-state.

Use nation in a sentence.

• Citizenship regimes reflect specific understandings of who may be a legitimate member of the nation.

• Every nation in the world, therefore, has much in common with every other nation in the world.

• Most current challenges to nation-states are not new, and some of them are as old as the nation-state itself.

• The government of a nation-state rules in the name of a community of citizens who identify themselves as a nation.

• A nation may acquire territory by discovery, by purchase, by long-continued occupation, or by cession from another nation.

• A nation gains rights of use and exclusion, but not full sovereignty, over territory of another nation which it occupies by military force.

• But the move from seeing oneself as a nation of victims to a nation of perpetrators is one that the Germans finally and with great difficulty made.

• Because the emergence of national consciousness and the creation of nation-states were conditioned by local factors, each nation evolved in an individual way.

nation sentence examples

• For example, if a nation believes that fishers of another nation are invading its own fishing grounds, the question may first be discussed by diplomatic representatives.

• Our nation has seen a significant number of Christian MPs who, led by their faith, have led the world in improving social attitudes and developing practices that have benefited the nation.

• Details of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy are presented in Michael Dougherty, To Steal a Kingdom (1992); Tom Coffman, Nation Within: The Story of America’s Annexation of the Nation of Hawaii (1998); and ‘Onipa‘a: Five Days in the History of the Hawaiian Nation: Centennial Observance of the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy (1994), published by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

• The undersigned Chiefs and Warriors, for themselves and all parts of the Cherokee nation do acknowledge themselves and the said Cherokee nation, to be under the protection of the said United States of America, and of no other sovereign whosoever; and they also stipulate that the said Cherokee nation will not hold any treaty with any foreign power, individual state, or with individuals of any state.