Sentence examples for forms nations from inspiring English sources

Indeed, the novel that was crowned the Booker of Bookers in both 1993 and 2008 – Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981) – is a book that centres upon the ways in which history forms nations, individuals and cultures.

Over the past half millennium, these claims have taken extraordinarily diverse forms — nations asserting independence from mother states, communists seeking freedom from colonialists, the vox populi contending with ancien regimes, theocracies who reject the authority of secular states, and sundry others.

After the end of the colonialist period, many of the newly formed nations were independent for the first time in their histories.

The issue became critical during the period of independence, when those who fought against the Spanish domination in particular faced the task of forming nations of a population that was diverse in race, culture, and origin.

Anderson's answer is his title: people come to form nations when they can imagine their community and the values and people it holds, and thus can demarcate the borders (physical and cognitive) of who is a member of that hypothetical club and who is not.

But the language of "free trade" and its supposed liberationist potential persisted as the new great powers of the 20th century grappled with the rights and demands of newly formed nations emerging from colonial rule.

We have entered a time of realignment not unlike that when city states joined together to form nations. Except this time it is global; countries are becoming less relevant.

Mr. Hassan's family moved to the newly formed nation of Pakistan in 1947.

Over the next few decades, though, the need for patriotic films arose as the newly formed nation was looking for a reason to remain united.

He envisions shifts along the lines of those that began to occur when people first settled into villages and formed nation-states.

He argued that divided nationalities, such as the Poles living in three countries and the Czechs and Slovaks living in two, should be allowed to form nation-states and become allies of the West.