Sentence examples for move a nation from inspiring English sources
That appeared last year, but fourteen-thousand-word magazine articles do not often by themselves move a nation.
A great speech can move a nation, lift an army, inspire graduates, or, in Ryan's case, on a smaller scale, guide a football team.
This governing philosophy has lurked in the background this year, but McCain will have to make it explicit to move a nation.
Every president wants a legacy, but few have the clout or cash to move a nation's political centre of gravity.
Similarly, Mrs. Clinton, of New York, has the support of such black political stalwarts as Representative John Lewis, the Georgia Democrat whose brutal beating in Selma in 1965 helped move a nation's conscience.
"The Chairman's writings," Nixon assured his host, "moved a nation and have changed a world".
"From the podium, Obama had just qualified Mandela as a "giant of history who moved a nation towards justice".
But a decade later, it was excerpted in Diane Ravitch's "American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation".
For his part, Nixon praised Mao's writings, which "moved a nation and have changed a world".
One single death and a refugee family have moved a nation to whom 200,000 deaths and 11 million refugees had remained for years merely a statistic, and not a very interesting one at that.
