Sentence examples for heroic nation from inspiring English sources

Above all, Fossato told me, Russia was shown as a heroic nation.

After 1941, Russia was seen as a heroic nation, helping to protect the western allies against Hitler's might.

Since, to its own people, it is a heroic nation threatened by imminent American nuclear onslaught, it can win merely by not being attacked.

"If the wave of anger and revenge of this heroic nation blows, then no one would be able to stop and control it, and they would bear the responsibility for its consequences," the council's statement said.

Say hello to the Marshall Islands, the tiny, heroic island nation in Micronesia, with a population just over 70,000.

Now, as we mourn the loss of 20 innocent children and six heroic educators, our nation must come together, act to address this issue, fight for the measures that are needed to curb the trajectory of gun-related violence and deaths.

The philosopher Bergson attacked scientific dogmatism and exalted humankind's nonrational drives notably a creative force that he called élan vital, which he held distinguishes heroic individuals and nations from the plodding herd.

"She was a heroic mother of the nation," the Sri Lanka Freedom Party said in a statement.

It is a nation of heroic bourgeois families who want to thrive within a secure social order.

The camera's loving fixation on death in battle even carries eerie echoes of Japan's own World War II cult of heroic immolation for the nation.

But it also has a square named for Jan Palach, who died in 1969 after setting himself on fire to protest the Soviet-led invasion of 1968 and became the heroic symbol of a nation that sees itself resisting foreign occupation.