Sentence examples for principal nations from inspiring English sources

For the first time a court representing the principal nations of the world emerging victorious from a great war has formally tried the political leaders of a sovereign state for responsibility for waging aggressive war defined as a crime.

Both Mr. Marx and Ms. Colley focus on the Protestant Reformation, insisting that the religious conflicts it unleashed played an important role in the creation of Europe's principal nation-states.

Given the intensification of global competition, it is crucial to assess the present status and competitiveness of the Chinese wooden furniture industry, as well as the changes and challenges China will face in competing with other principal trading nations.

Science and technology are considered in Europe (and beyond) as principal sources of nation-state and religious competitiveness and sustainable potential [56].

According to Minister of Education His Excellency Farooq Wardak, "Education is more important than ever; not only for its role as a principal force for nation-building, but also for its impact on regional and global stability, growth and prosperity".

Etmonia Tarpeh, a former teacher and school principal before her nation was torn by civil war, said:, "When we were in conflict, there was a focus on food and shelter, but not on education.

In 1937 the government expropriated the nation's principal railways, and in March 1938 President Cárdenas signed a decree nationalizing the country's oil industry.

To find artists to enhance the interior, the shrine's directors consulted heads of the principal museums of various nations, asking for nominations.

"For a long time," he said in his first presidential address to the nation, "the principal races of Burma… have tended to look upon themselves as separate national units.

New Bedford is the nation's principal fishing port in terms of landed value.

They are a principal reason for the nation's low esteem of Congress.