Sentence examples for almost national from inspiring English sources

The three major festivals (matsuri Aoi in May, Gion in July, and Jidai in October are almost national events.

Texas was tamed by gun-wielding cowboys and remains thoroughly marinated in the gun cultureTexas has an almost national sense of identity.

"But they've changed the entire tone of debate in 12 months at the federal and almost national level — they flipped things right upside-down," he said.

Although we are not there yet with the Syrians, everybody knows pretty much what the deal is there, and that there are practical questions there that are not nearly so charged with emotion and identity, and almost national consciousness as these are.

And though he treated Kingsley more severely than some thought justified, the resulting history of his religious opinions, Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864; "A Defense of His Life"), was read and approved far beyond the limits of the Roman Catholic Church, and by its fairness, candour, interest, and the beauty of some passages, it recaptured the almost national status that he had once held.

We need to get the Libyan factions together to form some sort of government of almost national unity".

Most of the news networks and late-night talk shows, the two almost-national quality papers, the news weeklies and the book publishers are here.

However, our study has several advantages: it provides a picture of both LP and AHD for two recent years, is based on a robust sample of individuals, has an almost-national geographical coverage, offers information on the testing attitude of individuals exposed to HIV infection based on the reasons for HIV testing.

They are almost a national obsession, and sports figures are treated as national heroes.

LMR has almost complete national coverage (<5% missing except 12% for 2007) and figures are extrapolated to full national coverage for each year.

I'd say it's almost a national epidemic".