Sentence examples for founding nations from inspiring English sources

"Well, in Vancouver the two founding nations are now the Indians and the Chinese".

India was one of the founding nations of the nonaligned movement, which in theory was a middle ground for countries that did not take sides in the cold war.

Both men effectively site themselves, and the leftism they support, as the last defenders of the true ideal: a social Europe, reflecting the democratic values of its founding nations.

When the Treaty of Rome was signed in March 1957, laying the groundwork for what is today the European Union, the heads of the six founding nations put their signatures to paper in the august main hall of a palazzo designed by Michelangelo.

Considered one of the two founding nations of Canada, France has always held a special place in Canada's socioeconomic fabric.

In recent decades, the Visegrad Group has functioned at best as a separate geographical area or, at worst, as an object of a political and economic competition both between its founding nations as well as between the East and West.

England, the founding nation of soccer, meets Montenegro, which gained independence seven years ago.

Its rule is enforced with alacrity against smaller nations, but France, the founding nation of FIFA, is no small nation.

But little comes easily to the founding nation of competitive soccer these days, least of all when it starts a contest as heavy favorite.

Hollande, in a televised speech to the nation last night, said the result was "painful" and an embarrassment for France, the "founding nation of the European Union, homeland of human rights, country of freedom".

In Italy, a founding nation of the EU, Eurosceptic movements and political parties are growing, and there is a risk that they will get stronger in the forthcoming months.