Sentence examples for national reckoning from inspiring English sources

The day of national reckoning has arrived.

Mr. Friedman is right that we need a national reckoning to deal with our economic woes.

And this, in turn, ties in with the exalted status that the teacher had enjoyed in the national reckoning since the middle of the nineteenth century.

By 1858, when Abraham Lincoln delivered his "House Divided" speech, it had become clear that more compromise could no longer stave off a national reckoning with slavery.

That sickening spectacle, and President Trump's despicably equivocal response, stoked a national reckoning with public monuments, and what they reveal of the citizenry's mangled character.

There's too much at stake for America for them to add their own petty distortions to an epic tragedy that only a long-overdue national reckoning with hard truths can bring to an end.

All this outside money and influence reinforces the idea of small, northernly Maine as a pawn in a larger, national political reckoning.

Scotland would take a per capita share of the national debt, reckons Mr Salmond.

British Future's Sunder Katwala, a sports obsessive concerned with issues of national identity, reckons the Thatcher era changed things too.

That might lead to speedier service in shops, and less confusion and rage: how much change is due from a DM50 note for goods worth euro12.16 Among the direst scenarios, a study for the Dutch national railways reckoned that the queue at Amsterdam's central station on new year's day could run to 1,200 people.

By the morning of the fourth day of the nationals, I reckoned I'd seen and heard enough on both the sociological and competitive fronts.