Sentence examples for national attributes from inspiring English sources

At its best, which "Union Jack" was on Thursday, the ballet is both a spare ritual and a catalog of national attributes and martial history.

This conviction did much to shape the demand for national attributes, particularly in the northern states, which facilitated the spread of baseball during the pre-Civil War years.

And Sir Benjamin's succinct analysis of national attributes, I tell him, reminds me of an episode of the sitcom Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, which begins with actor James Bolam assessing the Koreans.

Begins by reviewing general theoretical and methodological issues, then turns to specific empirical studies that examine the effects of systems structure, national attributes, bargaining processes, institutions, ideas, and norms on security affairs and political economy.

In more than two dozen volumes dense with charts, statistics and often impenetrable academic prose, he has taken on one aspect of French culture after another, from the state-subsidized universities to the pundits who regularly turn up on the evening news to that most celebrated if ephemeral of national attributes: taste.

National attributed its problems to a combination of factors, including production difficulties at its Cyrix subsidiary, the slowdown in personal computer sales because of high inventories at some manufacturers and the effect of the Asian crisis on sales of chips used in cellular telephones.

The national auditor attributed the losses to poor functioning, and said it highlighted the need for greater professionalism and accountability for better performance of these organizations.

Sources in the national police attributed the fighting to two local officials who, they said, had incited the violence because they were angry at being overlooked for new jobs after provinces became more autonomous.

The decline in the number of fire deaths in Chicago was part of a national trend attributed to a variety of factors, including sprinkler systems, fire alarms and smoke detectors.

Another Venezuelan who has long known Mr. Abreu, Moisés Naím, a frequent commentator on national affairs, attributed the adulation for Mr. Abreu to pride in a country whose main claims to fame are oil, beauty queens and baseball players.

We found that three indicators (number of road traffic injuries, number of deaths from road traffic injuries, and losses in gross national product attributed to road traffic injuries) were used consistently across almost all the selected reports as a framing tool to describe the magnitude of the road traffic injuries across countries.