Sentence examples for distinct nation from inspiring English sources
That's because, although I am English, I have lived in Glasgow for 20 years and see Scotland as a distinct nation, politically and culturally.
Avnery, for his part, is a grateful citizen of a Jewish state and also a passionate liberal; he has taken for granted a Zionist conception of that state as a distinct nation whose novel politics and language must be grasped on their own terms.
However, a change of official policy in the 1960s led to the acceptance of "Muslim" as a term denoting a national identity: the phrase "Muslim in the ethnic sense" was used in the 1961 census, and in 1968 the Bosnian Central Committee decreed that "the Muslims are a distinct nation".
When a single summer day in an American city can conclude with 30 people shot, you begin to comprehend how it can be that Black, Male America, if measured as a distinct nation, would have the second highest homicide rate in the world.
Basques and Catalans think themselves distinct nations, as, to a lesser extent, do Galicians.
There were, perhaps, a million of them, members of some 300 distinct "nations".
Sometimes these countries are three; sometimes one: the movement between three distinct nations and one region is impossible to pin down.
We still believe that the union rests on something precious – the social and economic solidarity of four distinct nations – and that is to be nurtured and strengthened, not turned against itself.
Rather than trying to force the disparate factions to coexist, new lines should be drawn to divide Iraq into three separate and distinct nations: a Kurdish state in the north, a Shiite land in the south and a Sunni nation west of Baghdad.
First, nationalists imagine the world as one of distinct nations with separate territories and memberships.
The primary objective of this study was to compare youth athletes from two culturally distinct nations (Germany and Japan) on key aspects of their psychological make-up (goal orientation, fear of evaluation) and perceived coach support.
