Sentence examples for national idea from inspiring English sources

It takes in six time zones, and people whose histories and manners are so different — from quasi-Texan libertarians in Alberta to statist French-legacy Québécois, with perhaps eighty different aboriginal nations between — that it is difficult to fit them into one national idea.

"There is a national idea.

"What is Ukraine's national idea?

This national idea continues to give meaning to many Russians' lives.

For the past 20 years Russia's leaders have been searching for a new "national idea".

The referendum turns not so much on the national interest as on a national idea.

This was in connection with Kogălniceanu's advocacy of pragmatic Westernization: "Civilization never does banish the national ideas and habits, but rather improves them for the benefit of the nation in particular and of humanity in general".

France's free public-education system embodies national ideas about égalité and meritocracy.

Broadcast media "flattens local cultural variations by introducing national ideas", an action that is easier to imagine from place-less digital education.

But the vast rural population and purely agrarian structure prevented the spread of liberal and national ideas to any great extent during the first part of the 19th century.

This holds for national ideas as well as for international ideas (Béland 2009).