Sentence examples for nation making from inspiring English sources

"When Spain won last time, it was about middle-class aspiration, a nation making it.

In fact, we are already, as a nation, making that choice.

But Russia has the largest Arctic border of any nation, making it a definite player in the region.

But the head of state is viewed as a moral compass for the nation, making the holder of the office particularly vulnerable to accusations of impropriety.

He explains how YBI Young Boys Incorporatedd) became the biggest heroin gang in the nation, making an estimated $300,000 a day.

Mr. Mondavi put his wines in restaurants and shops across the nation, making a single fine wine label recognizable from coast to coast for the first time.

The Mother Bethel Church WHERE, founded by Richard Allen in YEAR, became the first African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in the nation -- making it the second oldest black congregation in the nation.

After the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the creation of the federal republic in 1789, however, a new ethos of nation-making took hold in which ambition, properly cultivated, could rescue talent and virtue from the parochial needs of the family farm.

Following her incursions into what she names "the masculine" (depictions of violent, land-owning, nation-making misogynist men) she privileges five "feminine" textual moments of national transitions to Modernity in the attempt to unravel and expose how the state in each case has been constituted, and to locate in each of them "the assigned gender and ethnic positions" (1).

Cameron uses her history of the Kazakh famine to overturn several assumptions about violence, modernization, and nation-making under Stalin, highlighting, in particular, the creation of a new Kazakh national identity, and how environmental factors shaped Soviet development.

But the line-drawing endeavor set the tone for the exercise in nation-making that came next.