Sentence examples for nations engaged from inspiring English sources

At least 20 flagpoles, now bare, used to fly the colors of nations engaged here.

Both nations engaged in sporadic air and missile attacks against each other's cities and military and oil installations.

The five European nations engaged against Isis share a deep preoccupation: they fear the development of jihadi networks and ideology among their Muslim communities.

It was full of the brightest diplomats from many nations, engaged in almost permanent, often bitter, negotiations with each other and with Eurocrats.

Rich and poor nations engaged in heated ideological skirmishing even as they battled to defend narrow vested interests, with Ecuadorean bananas and Thai tuna among issues that at times blocked consensus.

At the recent turn of the century, in a bid to be the first to greet the dawn in what was called the new millennium, Pacific island nations engaged in a free-for all of shifting time zones, date lines and daylight saving times.

Nations engage in trade not because they have to but because they want to.

At the same time, Mr. Kerry seemed to be preparing a defense along the lines that many nations engage in such spying.

The central banks of major industrial nations engage in so-called "currency swaps," in which they lend one another their own currencies in order to facilitate their activities in stabilizing their exchange rates.

He and others say they hope the next American president will see their place more firmly within the community of nations, engaging in what Jairam Ramesh, junior commerce minister in the Indian government, called "genuine multilateralism and not in muscular unilateralism".

Step 1) Nations engage in trade.