Sentence examples for concept of nations from inspiring English sources

Then, as part of the reaction to that empire, an academic and intellectual effort began in the second half of the 20th century to "deconstruct" the English national identity, and with it the very concept of nations.

Some scholars argue that the contemporary concept of nations constrained by borders began to crystallise only in 1648.

As for the concept of nations, built on tax and central monetary authority?

2. Examine the concept of nation building and possible ramifications of nation building through reading and discussing "After the War, Rebuild a Nation.

Mr. Gore assailed Mr. Bush as having criticized the concept of "nation building" during the campaign in 2000 only to invade and occupy Iraq.

"The silly part is that the story of the potato began millennia before the concept of nation states existed," said Charles Crissman, a researcher at the International Potato Center.

Released in 1959, the British film whimsically reflected a time when the concept of nation-building to combat Communism was ingrained in American foreign policy.

In Mao's hands, moreover, the concept of nation largely replaced that of class, with China represented as a poor and oppressed proletarian nation that had to rise against the oppressing imperialist nations and their bourgeois underlings.

Through the 2000 campaign and the first months of his presidency, Mr. Bush derided the concept of "nation-building," his short-hand for repairing broken societies, as attempted by the Clinton administration in the Balkans and Somalia.

In the case of Japan, it can be argued that a negative identity (we were victims of the atomic bomb; of the Japanese military class; of the US occupation forces) warrants a negative concept of nation.

In 2012, in a paper entitled "How to understand 'minzu'(nation) and 'minzu zhuyi'(nationalism) in Marx and Engels' works, "I pointed out that Marx and Engels did not provide a systematic "theory of nation;" they didn't even define the core concept of "nation".