Sentence examples for the distant nations from inspiring English sources

As a village boy of 14, Kankan is spellbound listening to the stories told by a stranger, a nomad named Tariq who describes the mysteries of the desert, the distant nations and temples lying beyond it and the far-off city of Mecca, "where all roads converge".

But Theodosius was already afoot, rallying to his standard the distant nations of the East, the dwellers on the banks of flooding Euphrates, clear Halys, and rich Orontes.

Its closure in April was equally singular, with New Zealand's governor general and what seemed like half the country's government flown out on a Hercules military plane from Dubai, to say goodbye to a valley that has firmly etched itself into the consciousness of the distant nation.

In the case of more distant nations, the answer is dangerous fad.

And the great to-do over the arrival is even more unusual given that the royals hail from the tiny, distant nation of Belgium, which to many New Yorkers is simply the country the waffles come from.

Just as the God of the Bible cares when a sparrow falls to earth, the U.S. government worries about the slightest imperfection in the most distant nation.

Churchill was born in 1874 into a Britain that was coloring the map imperial pink, at the cost of washing distant nations blood-red.

Extending the same offer to more distant nations makes much less sense.

The situation strikes Frank as wildly ominous: "I couldn't help imagining my father and my brother faced off across Mobile Bay like distant nations on the brink of war".

May not the sovereign lay claim to them and employ them in fleets and armies, to increase the dominions of the state abroad and spread its fame over distant nations?

The dispute centers on an inherently tricky area of test-ban verification in which nuclear blasts have yields too small to produce the kind of powerful shock waves that distant nations can track easily as faint rumbles in bedrock.