Sentence examples for conception of the country from inspiring English sources

But while this insight is typically applied to Harper's economic policies and his handling of regional relations, it now seems relevant, too, to his broader conception of the country.

An Olympic opening ceremony is to history what the Ice Capades are to "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" — Gibbon on Ice! — but the stylized drama revealed something about the leadership's conception of the country and of itself.

Short Walks from Bogotá sets out to unravel Colombia's complexities for those who have little conception of the country beyond cocaine, violence and the execution of footballer Andrés Escobar by drug barons following his own goal in the 1994 World Cup.

The activists launched the case last year after months of collecting evidence of Lively's anti-gay teachings over several of his trips to Uganda since 2002, and of his influence on the conception of the country's "Kill the Gays" bill.

Despite these contemporary remnants of America's involvement in eugenics, and despite the fact that the movement shaped national policy and held sway in the upper reaches of society for many years, this chapter of American history is surprisingly absent from the common conception of the country's past.

The result is at once wholly familiar and yet jarringly at odds with most conceptions of the country, and all the more refreshing for it.One subject is the garish purple décor of the salon de coiffure on a nondescript village street (why does France have so many hairdressers?), another the Communist Party posters plastered to a rain-streaked wall.

But amid the sea of blonds that color foreign conceptions of the country live Sikhs and Vietnamese, Pakistanis and Poles, and a thriving community of African immigrants.

The crisis (along with its international dignity) has to be elevated to the point where it is understood as singular and unique, so that its solution, whatever that turns out to be, is understood to have as few implications as possible for the self-conception of the countries involved.

How could she hate this country when she had no conception of this country.

I think that the human rights issue is linked to our very political conception of these countries.

Davidson discussed the conception of the song with country music blog Taste of Country: "I went out on the road with them, and we wrote a couple of things.