Sentence examples for millions of compatriots from inspiring English sources

His family shared the almost universal faith of the Orthodox church with millions of compatriots, and he was never an intellectual.

The mayor of Rio got in first with a paean to Costa's XI: "You, players, who in less than a few hours will be hailed as champions by millions of compatriots!

With Kremlin talk of "privileged interests" in Russia's neighbourhood, and a litany of real and imagined grievances there, it is easy to imagine a resurgent Russia whipping up its millions of compatriots, living in foreign countries thanks to the collapse of the Soviet empire, into a frenzy while the outside world stands aloof.

To them, and to their millions of compatriots, the state of siege the Palestinians found themselves in and the underlying vitriolic hatreds released by the events of the previous weeks more than justified such an horrific act, an understandable reprisal, as one of them put it, by a resistance movement fighting against military occupation.

In fairness, they weren't the only ones to put the cart before the horse: the mayor of Rio had made a skitteringly useless attempt at a rousing Churchillian address on the turf before the match, hailing the Brazilian players as having "no rivals in the entire hemisphere" and claiming that "in less than a few hours" they would be "hailed as champions by millions of compatriots".

He stated "We cannot recognise the seizure by Soviet China... of over half of our national territory" and that "We can neither concur in the brutal enslavement of millions of compatriots".

But this does not justify that personal data of millions of our compatriots are snooped on".

Confucian values include respect for authorities and for the rights of compatriots.

It's a lofty group of compatriots that the newest Crunchie winner will join.

This greatly increases the attractiveness of a campus with an established community of compatriots.

Perhaps we can think of compatriots as an aggregate of individuals.