The phrase "alienation of country" is not commonly used in written English and may be unclear without context.
It could be used in discussions about political or social issues related to a nation's identity or the feeling of disconnection from one's homeland.
Example: "The alienation of country can lead to a sense of loss among citizens who feel disconnected from their national identity."
Alternatives: "estrangement from the nation" or "disconnection from the homeland."
Sunday's vote is the cornerstone of US plans to install democracy in Iraq, but some analysts fear that the further alienation of the country's minority Sunnis, who wielded power under Saddam Hussein, could lead to civil war.
AS the debate intensifies within the Obama administration over how to stabilize Afghanistan, one major problem is conspicuously missing from the discussion: the growing alienation of the country's largest ethnic group, the Pashtun tribes, who make up an estimated 42percentt of the population of 33 million.
Bill Clinton owned the center with the advantages of his own charisma and the alienation of much of the country from his opponents in Congress and their hard-right views.
In contrast to the uneasy alienation of dropping bombs on countries thousands of miles away, "Game of Thrones" presents its carnage in such extreme close-up that it can't be ignored.
The so-called Al Aksa intifada halted the process and thrust the Middle East into reverse: violence, hate, a lynching atmosphere, futile struggles in the United Nations, unemployment and distress, incitement, renewed alienation of Israel from Arab countries and a feeling of going back to square one.
ISIS's recruitment operations of foreign fighters have long relied upon alienation of Muslims in Western countries.
The events of this weekend have given many Norwegians a sense of alienation towards their country.
All five are united, however, as studies of characters who are not in their native countries, of alienation, of racial tension and of sudden unpredictable shifts in power.
In some countries the alienation of a husband from his wife by another woman who entices him away is also delineated as a criminal offense within the meaning of abduction.
Epstein went on to describe, with almost clinical dryness although maybe it's just contempt—"the increasingly large sector of American life inhabited by cultural swingers and intellectual fellow travelers, in which a man is esteemed according to the degree of his alienation from his country".
