Sentence examples for nations set from inspiring English sources

European nations set their minds to a war-banishing Union.

The deepest beliefs of our nations set the direction of our foreign policy.

As the French historian Ernest Lavisse put it: "The two nations set off in different directions.

"We can no longer wait and see until other nations set precedents".

Jointly, these eight nations set fishing quotas and sustainability standards to manage nearly a third of the world's tuna stock.

Two-thirds of the total went to nations set to join the European Union by June 2004.

In 1935, the International Labour Organization (now part of the United Nations) set a forty-hour week for its member nations; though many nations took time to meet that standard, the forty-hour work week was widespread by the nineties.

In the 1970s the international community, through the United Nations, set 0.7 percent of a country's gross national income (GNI) as the benchmark for foreign aid.

The French president said recently that he sought a multilateral world in which the United Nations set the laws by which all nations abide -- code words for limiting American power.

In 2000, the United Nations set a goal to reduce the deaths by 75percentt by 2015.

In 1950, the United Nations set a term of ten years on Italy's trusteeship of Somalia, and in June the Italians make their unreluctant exit.