Sentence examples for distributed nations from inspiring English sources

Which immediately brings to mind the phyles of Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, geographically distributed nations whose footprints are dispersed unevenly all over the world rather than contained within a single contiguous piece of real estate.

I predict that international groups which initially seem trivial, or even laughable, will slowly grow in stature and importance until they become, in many ways, distributed nations of their own…without the limitations of that ugly hacks called a "state".

Neal Stephenson did so more than twenty years ago with The Diamond Age, in which he described a world divided into dozens of different distributed nations, called "phyles," each with its own scattered archipelago of territory around the world, along with cities and shared land where laws were dictated by the Common Economic Agreement among the phyles).

On July 31, an article appeared that was distributed nationally, and which directed the nation to take part in vilifying him.

Although myriad resources and outcomes are unevenly distributed across nations and social groups, health differences can be viewed as particularly objectionable from a human rights perspective (21, 22).

These vascular physicians, serving as centres of excellence, were evenly distributed geographically nation-wide, and each suggested on average 10 general practitioners to the central co-ordinating centre.

One of each of these was nominated by lot as the international prototypes, other copies were retained by the CGPM as working copies and the rest were distributed to member nations for use as their national prototypes.

Under the proposal, 120,000 refugees would be distributed among EU nations with binding requirements for each country.

"New risks are continually being acquired and distributed among member nations," he said as the bank presented its financial results for 2012.

With the pool of available money diminished, and with new wartime demands being placed upon it, this budget returns Washington to a partisan and ideological battle over how to distribute the nation's resources.

A member of the leftist Workers Partyy, da Silva enacted social and economic policies that helped distribute the nation's rapid economic gains to people with underprivileged backgrounds similar to his own.