Sentence examples for expansive nation from inspiring English sources

In the U.K., and other, less expansive, nation states, direct flights are less feasible in terms of intra-city travel, but enhanced transport links such as high-speed trains could have a big impact on increasing these interactions, and, in turn, the success and innovative nature of their growth businesses.

In 2000, surpluses enabled him to make expansive, nation-changing promises.

But the summit meeting, which focused on aid for the two nations, did not in the end endorse his view of an expansive nation-building role for the alliance in either country.

The amount of space per person in homes and offices is also less than in more expansive nations, like ours.

"What makes Japan such an expansive maritime nation is our over 6,800 remote islands, including Takeshima and the Senkaku Islands," Noda said.

In the summer of 2007, The White Stripes embarked on a cross-country Canadian tour to accomplish their goal of performing in every province and territory across the expansive northern nation.

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Every summer for the past eight years, Michael Frachetti has come to the desert steppe that rolls like endless yellow waves across this expansive Central Asian nation searching for evidence of a vast, connected nomadic society.

expansive (expansion) phase.

Indeed, several senior administration officials acknowledged in recent days that the announcement by Mr. Obama merely put the best face possible on a three-year plan to retreat from what was once an expansive experiment in nation-building.

In the mid-1950s, the mood of the university, like that of the nation, was expansive.

That is because new rules that went into effect this week take an expansive view of the nation's managerial class, which is ineligible for overtime pay.