Sentence examples for nationhood a from inspiring English sources

A singularly undistinguished family's hold on the nation, a mirage of nationhood, a majestic delusion".

But it has opened a much wider discussion on the very nature of German nationhood a decade after unification.

Before the mid-1960s Swiss films were generally dewy-eyed tributes to the glories of beauteous nationhood: a perfect land tended by the contented folk of the confederacy.

Danny Boyle's delirious dreamscape wove together pageantry, pastoral, pain and pride to create a new vision of nationhood – a supremely fresh portrait of that special mixture of enduring tolerance and suppressed passion that has always underlined our national identity.

His more ideologically minded colleagues interpret the EU as an institutional expression of all they oppose: a fortress of dirigisme, a solvent of nationhood, a threat to British democracy and independence.

In the end, we focus on a combined nationhood and a desire to move forward with the spirit of the treaty relationship.

Most new African states had little more to support their pretensions to nationhood than a paper constitution, a flag, and a London-backed currency.

The declaration of independence raises the prospects of a new constitution and emblems of nationhood, including a new flag bearing a map of Kosovo topped by six stars.

It will be the sound of nationhood, and a lament for a lost son.

To many, however, such moves smack again of a dilution of nationhood at a time when they are not ready for it.

Regardless of political leanings, evident among Puerto Rico's 3.8 million people and an additional 3.4 million Hispanics of Puerto Rican descent in the states is a sense of nationhood and a persistent clinging to language.