Sentence examples for continental nations from inspiring English sources

The winners of this new world are big and aggressive continental nations, defending national interests with great single-mindedness.

This worked toward a certain stability I think which continental nations did not enjoy.

By 1945 the economies of the continental nations of western Europe were in a state of virtually complete paralysis.

But the ideals of European unity have never been embraced by a majority of Britons, and the country tends to see its membership in more pragmatic terms than most continental nations do.

Jamie Jackson reports that a member of the panel determining the 2018 venue said that one of the five continental nations hoping to stage that year's competition could be encouraged to tender for the 2022 edition.

In any case, such a disaster would make an end of the modest Budget surpluses which Italy, unlike the other great Continental nations, has been able of late years to achieve, and the ruin of a flourishing port with considerable silk industries and of a large area of fertile country must alone cut off much of the revenue of the kingdom.

The Framers wanted rule by certain kinds of majorities — ones suited to moderate, consensual governance of a heterogeneous, continental nation with myriad regional and other diversities.

But we were still just ordinary working stiffs trying to do work vastly beyond our ability — namely, governing a great continental nation.

The study of Savoy and Italy is plainly meant to suggest the present-day frailty of continental nation-states, and that of Ireland ends with the forecast of the demise, in coming decades, of the United Kingdom.

And if you imagined some catastrophe suddenly dissolving our political order and requiring us to start anew, it is not at all clear that we would be able to forge a reunited republic, a second continental nation.

In the past, Dr. Carneiro was probably best known for arguing that Brazil should develop the atomic bomb "to imprint ourselves on the international scene and remind the Great Powers that we are a continental nation that needs to be respected".