Sentence examples for singular country from inspiring English sources

"I draw and take notes on this beautiful and singular country so close to losing its originality and becoming completely French," the Paris-trained Creole painter Théodore Chassériau wrote to his family in 1846, while living at an Algerian military camp.

But as used by its proponents today, the notion extends well beyond the idea that the United States is a singular country to suggest that it possesses, as the opening paragraph of the 2012 Republican platform put it, "a unique place and role in human history".

By the early 21st century, Serbia was putting behind it the tragedy of its recent past to rebuild as a singular, independent country on a new Balkan Peninsula.

That drilled home how extraordinary it is that American businessmen, from the singular huge country with its own sports, still largely oblivious to football, have bought five of English football's greatest clubs, Manchester United, Liverpool (twice), Arsenal, Aston Villa and Sunderland.

The ending -er with umlaut providing the vowl is a o or u: Examples: Singular: das Land - country Plural: die Länder - countries Singular: das Licht - light Plural: die Lichter.

Edwin Morgan was a singular voice in a country with a literary tradition rich in singular voices.

In The Great British Dream Factory, Dominic Sandbrook picks up Boyle's thesis and goes searching for the causes and consequences of the country's singular transformation.

In Italy, comedian Beppe Grillo has formed an outsider party and led it to singular success in his country's election last week.

Known to the Persians as Armina and to the Greeks as Armenioi, the Armenian people call themselves Hayq (singular: Hay) and their country Hayastan, and they look back to a folk hero, Hayk.

Amid all the brutality and corruption of his regime, his historical mission has been to assert himself as the country's singular, irreplaceable leader and to reclaim Russia's globe-bestriding status.

To hold those two ideas in your head as many in Japan do — to see that life means a joyful participation in a world of sorrows, and that suffering is not the same as unhappiness — is one of the singular blessings this seasoned country still has to offer.