Sentence examples for nation statehood from inspiring English sources

These are the vagaries of nation statehood in the globalized world; they have little regard for Celtic spirit.

Camel husbandry reinforces the Polisario's claims to nation-statehood by legitimizing control over the former territory pertaining to the Sahrawi nomadic tribes both through occupation (people and animals) and use and by providing for the national welfare and reducing dependence on foreign aid by means of state food production and redistribution.

The collapse of the Old World heralded a phase of nationalism and statehood whereby ethnicity, not religion, defined a person's allegiance to their "nation".

The speaker of the state's House of Representatives canceled all official business for Thursday, when D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and members of the D.C. Council were scheduled to testify before Granite State lawmakers about statehood for the nation's capital.

Is it not now time for western powers to leave Iraq and the wider region alone and allow the process of nation-building and statehood to work itself out in its own cultural and political context?

Nations have achieved statehood only in carefully prescribed situations.

Polish troops, fresh off their nation's declaration of statehood, massacred Jews in three days of pogroms.

But Russia is killing our statehood, our nation".

Sweden will become the first major European nation to recognize Palestinian statehood, newly sworn-in Prime Minister Stefan Lofven announced Friday.

What is needed is an account of how the putative presumption in favor of statehood for nations is to be weighed against competing claims and values.

In 1848, Wisconsin achieved statehood; Indian nations were under increased pressure for removal and marginalization.