Sentence examples for formation of nations from inspiring English sources

The revolutionary French nationalism stressed free individual decision in the formation of nations.

In Africa and the Balkans the formation of nations has gone hand in hand with tribal conflict and ethnic cleansing, while the welding of China into a nation that is under way today involves the ruthless suppression of Tibetan and Muslim minorities.

History plays a major role in the formation of nations.

Alexander further explains that "Since the middle of the 19th century, amid the formation of nations, the large European colonial empires believed they had a new duty: to spread progress and modernity, freedom from Asiatic tyranny, self-determination, and human rights among the backward ones.

What had seemed inevitable in the arc of history – the formation of nation-states in the 19th century – is now being questioned.

The current popular view of Verdi imagines a steady and above all optimistic progress: from the composer's convictions and intentions, to the first appearance of music such as Va pensiero, to the embedding of that music in an emerging national consciousness, to the overflowing of that consciousness into revolutionary action, and then to the triumphant formation of the nation state.

The formation of national political parties was almost concurrent with the formation of the Republic itself".

Failure to achieve unification in 1848, this argument holds, resulted in the late formation of the nation-state in 1871, which in turn delayed the development of positive national values.

In fact, "the building of an empire impeded the formation of a nation".

"It was like the formation of a nation," she told me.

In 1997 – somewhere between the formation of One Nation that April and Hanson's "assassination" video – a book was published called Pauline Hanson: The Truth.