An accession agreement with Europe represented a chance for this struggling, isolated nation to become part of the modern world. |
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His success later in the afternoon has staggered a nation and sent two families reeling from heartache that never diminishes. |
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The fact that many African Americans fear the police more than our white counterparts says our nation is still a work in progress. |
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Or to assume that he believes in the addled and simplistic economics of austerity that would drive the nation back into recession. |
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If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent. |
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As to this right, therefore, the people have expressly created a twilight zone, in which neither nation nor state can act. |
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This waiting period exists only for athletes who previously competed for one nation and want to compete for another. |
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Athletes will sometimes become citizens of a different nation so they are able to compete in the Olympics. |
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There is a general rule that maximum three individual athletes may represent each nation per competition. |
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Each nation may be represented by no more than one team per competition a team is two people in some sports. |
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They certainly were for the host nation who won 29 gold medals, the best haul for Great Britain since the 1908 Games in London. |
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One of host nation Great Britain's three gold medals at the Games came in the Swallow class from Stewart Morris and David Bond. |
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Turkey was the most successful nation with six gold medals followed by Sweden receiving 5 gold medals. |
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The next host nation then also briefly introduces itself with artistic displays of dance and theater representative of its culture. |
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Great Britain continued to compete as a test playing nation both home and away. |
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From 1985 to 1988, each nation played each other a number of times on a home and away basis. |
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Apart from South Africa, the only other African nation to attempt to qualify is Morocco who took part in the 2000 qualifying. |
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The winner of the tie is the nation which wins three or more of the five rubbers in the tie. |
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By comparison, a nation is more impersonal, abstract, and overtly political than an ethnic group. |
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He also claims that a nation is not formed on the basis of dynasty, language, religion, geography, or shared interests. |
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For the most part, members of a nation remain strangers to each other and will never likely meet. |
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The nation began to emerge in the late 18th century as the leading form of government and social organization. |
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This description of nation is pinned to the shared experience of being radicalized and termed as Black. |
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The unified kingdom of Denmark emerged in the 10th century as a proficient seafaring nation in the struggle for control of the Baltic Sea. |
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In 2010 the Island was named the fifth most likely nation to reach the moon next. |
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A few rare mass naturalization processes have been implemented by nation states. |
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In international law, nationality is the status or relationship that gives a nation the right to protect a person from other nations. |
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Nationality is also the status that allows a nation to grant rights to the subject and to impose obligations upon the subject. |
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Territorial nationalists assume that all inhabitants of a particular nation owe allegiance to their country of birth or adoption. |
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A sacred quality is sought in the nation and in the popular memories it evokes. |
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The British team won, making them the only nation to win an Olympic cricket contest and the only Olympic gold medalists in cricket. |
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Great Britain's first shooting medals came when the nation hosted the 1908 Games, at which the British shooters dominated the competitions. |
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This would allow Ireland to become a permanent One Day International playing nation and eventually grant them Test status. |
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The welfare of a nation can, therefore, scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined above. |
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As a nation will seldom declare that it is acting as such, this usually entails a retrospective examination of state conduct. |
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The Soviet Union was the second nation to have developed and tested a nuclear weapon. |
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However, in only one instance has a nation given up nuclear weapons after being in full control of them. |
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This was the first G7 meeting neither taking place in a member nation nor having the host leader participating in the meeting. |
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So, if they're the 21st largest nation in the world, they want the G21, and think it's highly unfair if they have been cut out. |
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Historically, the Irish nation was made up of kin groups or clans, and the Irish also had their own religion, law code and style of dress. |
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Regardless of the exact number of kingdoms and their names, the Pictish nation was not a united one. |
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The meaning ascribed to words similar to nation during the ancient and medieval periods was often quite different than it is today. |
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Many students held to Whiggish, evangelical, and Utilitarian convictions of their duty to represent their nation and to modernise India. |
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The reason for this was the economic and financial chaos the nation suffered under the Articles of Confederation. |
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The victory rejuvenated the French nation and emboldened the National Convention to abolish the monarchy. |
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At that time, the politics of the nation were dominated by members of the aristocracy, together with a few powerful commoners. |
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This monument was erected by the nation on the motion of Gladstone in his memorial speech on Disraeli in the House of Commons. |
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Germany became the dominant economic power on the continent and was the second largest exporting nation after Britain. |
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During this period, Poland successfully managed to fuse the territories of the three former partitioning powers into a cohesive nation state. |
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Membership eligibility was widened to include all nation states fighting against the Axis powers instead of a select few. |
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The negotiations were long and complex, with each nation having its own interests. |
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The nation has provided 100,000 military and police personnel to serve in 35 UN peacekeeping operations across four continents. |
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The other European nation that is eligible to join, but has not, is Belarus. |
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Grenada was a former colony and current independent Commonwealth nation under the Queen. |
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After the general election of 2015, the nation returned to one party government after the Tories won an outright majority. |
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Generally, however, the Prime Minister is held responsible by the nation for the consequences of legislation or of general government policy. |
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The oldest written document still governing a sovereign nation today is that of San Marino. |
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In a nation with a federal system of government the approval of a majority of state or provincial legislatures may be required. |
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For carrier companies shipping goods from one nation to another, exchange rates can often impact them severely. |
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As late as 2014, and early 2015, a majority of Americans still believed that the nation remained in a recession. |
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The nation is the form of a moral order as surely as is the family or the church. |
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Ethnicity is often used synonymously with ambiguous terms such as nation or people. |
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As time went on, the spiritual level of the nation declined to the point that God allowed the Philistines to capture the tabernacle. |
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Scotland has therefore been described as the fastest secularising nation in history. |
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Prosperity returned in the 1950s and London remained a world center of finance and culture, but the nation was no longer a major world power. |
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Muthesius believed that it was essential were Germany to become a leading nation in trade and culture. |
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One might argue that the Soviet posters made in the 1950s to promote the wealth of the nation were in itself a form of pop art. |
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It was the latter who donated the Chandos portrait to the nation as the gallery's first portrait. |
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The case for Wales as a football nation was particularly weak in foreign eyes given the absence of any national league. |
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Over 100 years after the formation of its national association, Wales finally became a football nation with its own national league. |
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Welsh victories were now coming against the more established home nation teams. |
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The first proof of Wales as a nation embracing the sport of rugby union is reflected in the rapid growth of rugby clubs in the late 19th century. |
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As Northern Ireland is a constitute nation of the United Kingdom it also sends a Northern Ireland Team to the Commonwealth Games. |
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To prepare for the second qualification match, Scotland travelled to Perpignan to play test nation France. |
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The Scots were underdogs against the Pacific Island nation who were full of NRL talent. |
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A national personification is an anthropomorphism of a nation or its people. |
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If we are to be a nation of laws, we must follow the rule of law consistently and not abandon it when times get tough. |
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It is the only nation with both a Red Sea coast and a Persian Gulf coast and most of its terrain consists of arid desert and mountains. |
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Ethiopia is a multilingual nation with around 80 ethnolinguistic groups, the four largest of which are the Oromo, Amhara, Somali and Tigrayans. |
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A burgeoning commercial hub, the nation is the site of various foreign military bases, including Camp Lemonnier. |
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The nation formally became a member of NATO on 30 March 1949, amid domestic controversy and riots. |
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Following up on this, Iceland qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the smallest nation ever to accomplish this feat. |
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Thus far, the nation has won 266 medals at the Summer Olympic Games and another 110 medals at the Winter Olympic Games. |
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Finland is also one of the most successful nations in bandy, being the only nation beside Russia and Sweden to win a Bandy World Championship. |
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In 2009 and 2010, East Timor was the nation of subject matter for the Australian and South Korean films Balibo and A Barefoot Dream. |
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The result left the nation divided between a predominately Presbyterian Lowland and a predominately Episcopalian Highland region. |
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These 'services' would normally lead the nation to the threshold of political independence. |
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The chart below shows the population of each Celtic nation and the number of people in each nation who can speak Celtic languages. |
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It has been said that Old English is Dutch, and to no other nation is the study of the Netherlandish more interesting than to the English. |
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Hopes for reform of the existing church helped keep the political nation unified. |
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It is the sense of a nation as a cohesive whole, as represented by distinctive traditions, culture, language and politics. |
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Social identity theory suggests a positive relationship between identification of a nation and derogation of other nations. |
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National identity can be most noticeable when the nation confronts external or internal enemy and natural disasters. |
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Having a common threat or having a common goal unite people in a nation and enhance national identity. |
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By expressing the myths of having common descent and common destiny, people's sense of belonging to a nation is enhanced. |
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The new nation required a capital that was located away from other major settlements such as Melbourne and Sydney. |
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The relationship between federal and local courts varies from nation to nation and can be a controversial and complex issue in itself. |
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Their support for each nation became very important during the 14th century, because the English kings then started to claim the French throne. |
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Each participating nation holds its own national selection event to chose its representatives at the Festival. |
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The most successful Celtic nation is Wales, with fourteen wins, with Cornwall close behind, having won ten times. |
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Lloyd George himself became Prime Minister, with the nation demanding he take vigorous charge of the war. |
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Dafydd was leader of his nation only for a few months after his brother's death. |
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The chief staple commodities of North Wales, as well as of the nation at large, are those manufactured of wool. |
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Socialist parties in every industrial nation had committed themselves to antiwar policies, but when the war. |
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The British government was the first nation to build an embassy in the area that would later become known as Embassy Row. |
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The decrease in birth rate fluctuates from nation to nation, as does the time span in which it is experienced. |
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Mathias concludes that it would be hard to find anybody who has rendered greater service to the Welsh nation than William Salesbury. |
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Cantonese radio is also available in the nation and Cantonese is prevalent in locally produced Chinese television. |
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After Morgan began singing, the crowd joined in, and Wales became the first nation to sing a national anthem at the start of a sporting event. |
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These versions of BBC Two share the same idents, but with the nation name in the BBC Two box. |
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Prior to the change by the US, no nation using nuclear submarines permitted women to serve on board. |
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The southernmost chain is the Austral Islands, with its northerly trending part the atolls in the nation of Tuvalu. |
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As a percentage of GDP, the Swedish government spends the most of any nation on research and development. |
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These actions were used to affirm Portugal's status as a transcontinental nation and not as a colonial empire. |
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The victory of the Skagerrak was celebrated in the press, children were given a holiday and the nation celebrated. |
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If we had had that which had been sent, England and her Majesty had had the most honour that ever any nation had. |
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The invasion of Italy resulted in the nation switching sides to the Allies and the ousting of Mussolini. |
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The blockading nation is free to select anything else as contraband in a list, which it must publish. |
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If the situation so demands, the blockading nation can request that the ship divert to a known place or harbour for inspection. |
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Except for Native Americans, the North Dakota population has a lesser percentage of minorities than in the nation as a whole. |
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The nation is currently undergoing administrative reorganization by merging many of the cities, towns and villages with each other. |
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Many of today's enterprises were founded at the time, and Japan emerged as the most developed nation in Asia. |
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Japan is a leading nation in scientific research, particularly in fields related to the natural sciences and engineering. |
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Great Britain is also the only nation in the Olympic Games to have won a Gold in every games. |
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A Lithuanian National Revival laid the foundations of the modern Lithuanian nation and independent Lithuania. |
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The dominant language of Latin America is Spanish, though the most populous nation in Latin America, Brazil, speaks Portuguese. |
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Haitian Creole is dominant in the nation of Haiti, where French is also spoken. |
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The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 revived European interest in the East, but no nation was successful in establishing trade dominance. |
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The archipelago of Indonesia and the island nation of East Timor border the ocean on the east. |
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Brazil is now the nation that has the largest number of uncontacted tribes, and the island of New Guinea is second. |
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The nation employs a professional, volunteer military force of approximately 79,000 active personnel and 32,250 reserve personnel. |
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In 1778 Morocco became the first nation to recognize the new United States. |
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The Confederate Congress authorized the new nation up to 100,000 troops sent by governors as early as February. |
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The situation gradually led to the consolidation of central authority and the emergence of the nation state. |
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The introduction of gunpowder to the field of battle affected not only military organisation, but helped advance the nation state. |
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This settled the succession to the French crown and laid the basis for the formation of the modern nation of France. |
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Furthermore, it was able to flourish as a nation state due to the many benefits and resources the Nile provided. |
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The Zulu nation spectacularly defeated the British at the Battle of Isandlwana. |
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A tribe is viewed, developmentally or historically, as a social group existing before the development of nation states, or outside them. |
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To avoid these implications, some have chosen to use the terms ethnic group, or nation instead. |
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No nation would swap territory with other states simply, for example, because the king's daughter married. |
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In most of Europe, as well as in Japan and most of Latin America, nation after nation turned to dictators and authoritarian regimes. |
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Now there was a nation of the Alans, which we have formerly mentioned somewhere as being Scythians, and living around Tanais and Lake Maeotis. |
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The largest part of the nation lies between two rivers, the Dniester and the Prut. |
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Because of Gotland's central position in the Baltic Sea, from early on the Gutes became a nation of traders and merchants. |
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The division and organisation of the early Gutnish society shows a nation constantly ready for war. |
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Seeing itself as an inclusive nation with universal values, France has always valued and strongly advocated assimilation. |
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According to him, to belong to a nation is a subjective act which always has to be repeated, as it is not assured by objective criteria. |
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This universalist conception of citizenship and of the nation has influenced the French model of colonization. |
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Before the collapse of communism and the reunification of Germany in 1990, Germans constituted the largest divided nation in Europe by far. |
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After World War II, Austrians increasingly saw themselves as a separate nation from the German nation. |
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The concept of a German nation was developed by German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder. |
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While these political sellout artists have been intoning their mind numbing placations, citizens across the nation have been speaking and acting. |
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Today, Russia is the leading nation in rhythmic gymnastics with Yevgeniya Kanayeva. |
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The Russian nation had constitutionally equal status among the many nations of the union but exerted de facto dominance in various respects. |
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Beyond this the precise division of power varies from one nation to another. |
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The names for the nation of Greece and the Greek people differ from the names used in other languages, locations and cultures. |
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During the parade of nations Greece is always called first, as the founding nation of the ancient precursor of modern Olympics. |
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The nation has competed at every Summer Olympic Games, one of only four countries to have done so. |
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Generally, a tribe or nation is considered to be part of an ethnic group, usually sharing cultural values. |
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The Navajo nation defeated bids to open casinos in 1994, but by 2004 the Shiprock casino was a fait accompli. |
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In the whole history of humanity, every nation had different needs for military forces. |
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But to this nation it is peculiar, to learn presages and admonitions divine from horses also. |
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A state is specifically a political and geopolitical entity, whilst a nation is a cultural or ethnic one. |
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What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. |
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It was with these intellectual discoveries and technological advances that the nation state arose. |
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For others, the nation existed first, then nationalist movements arose for sovereignty, and the nation state was created to meet that demand. |
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In these cases, the nationalist sentiment and the nationalist movement clearly precede the unification of the German and Italian nation states. |
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In recent years, a nation state's claim to absolute sovereignty within its borders has been much criticized. |
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The nation state promoted economic unity, by abolishing internal customs and tolls. |
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When the implied unity was absent, the nation state often tried to create it. |
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However, many nation states accept specific minorities as being part of the nation, and the term national minority is often used in this sense. |
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Of the thousands of ethnic and cultural minorities in nation states across the world, only a few have this level of acceptance and protection. |
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Ideally, the border of a nation state extends far enough to include all the members of the nation, and all of the national homeland. |
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Irredentist movements typically circulate maps of the claimed national territory, the greater nation state. |
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Historians often look to the past to find the origins of a particular nation state. |
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Consequently, a German nation united under one banner presented significant questions. |
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There was no readily applicable definition for who the German people would be or how far the borders of a German nation would stretch. |
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Although Bismarck had led the transformation of Germany from a loose confederation into a federal nation state, he had not done it alone. |
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Unifying various states into one nation required more than some military victories, however much these might have boosted morale. |
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In general, globalization may ultimately reduce the importance of nation states. |
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We were regarded as a nation of poltrons, without the spirit to resent insult, or the power to resist aggression. |
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Despite European pressure, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian nation to never have been colonized. |
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Since 1992, the nation has officially been governed as a constitutional democracy from its capital at Antananarivo. |
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Nevertheless, in 2010 the UNDP ranked Oman as the most improved nation in the world in terms of development during the preceding 40 years. |
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Mercantilism is an economic policy that emphasizes the goal of each nation was to gain as much money as possible by whatever means. |
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The men's team performed better than any other African nation at the 2014 FIBA World Cup, where they reached the playoffs for the first time. |
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According to the president of Nauru, Cape Verde has been ranked the eighth most endangered nation due to flooding from climate change. |
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Since 2007, the UN has classified it as a developing nation rather than a least developed country. |
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After the nation became a republic in 1950, the President of India continued to perform the same functions. |
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The Gold Coast region declared independence from the United Kingdom on 6 March 1957 and established the nation of Ghana. |
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Upon the end of Apartheid in South Africa in 1994, the nation ceded Walvis Bay to Namibia. |
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The Dominican Republic is a Hispanophone nation of approximately 10 million people. |
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The nation ranked first of all countries surveyed for of levels of perceived domestic corruption. |
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Haiti has always been a literary nation that has produced poetry, novels, and plays of international recognition. |
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Newfoundland remains the only nation that ever voluntarily relinquished democracy. |
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Guyana is the only South American nation in which English is the official language. |
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In November 2010, Uruguay ratified the UNASUR Constitutive Treaty, becoming the ninth nation out of twelve to do so. |
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Diplomatic recognition is an important factor in determining whether a nation is an independent state. |
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Text messaging is a popular form of communication and, in 2007, the nation sent an average of one billion SMS messages per day. |
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The Philippines is also the first tropical nation to compete at the Winter Olympic Games debuting in the 1972 edition. |
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According to the president of Nauru, the Marshall Islands are the most endangered nation in the world due to flooding from climate change. |
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Fishing has been critical to the economy of this island nation since its settlement. |
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The state is ranked fourth in the nation for this kind of mining production. |
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Peru is a multiethnic nation formed by the combination of different groups over five centuries. |
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Walter Bagehot of The Economist newspaper in London argued that the new nation should be called 'Northland' or 'Anglia' instead of Canada. |
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In May 1606 the expedition reached the islands later called the New Hebrides and now the independent nation of Vanuatu. |
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The density of languages, per capita, is the highest of any nation in the world, with an average of only 2,000 speakers per language. |
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Despite occasional successes, Ivan's army was pushed back, and the nation failed to secure a coveted position on the Baltic Sea. |
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The nation rose together under the leadership of Kuzma Minin, a Nizhny Novgorod merchant, and Prince Pozharsky. |
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Horse racing is an equestrian sport and major international industry, watched in almost every nation of the world. |
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The greatest distinction of an empire is through the amount of land that a nation has conquered and expanded. |
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European expansion caused the world to be divided by how developed and developing nation are portrayed through the world systems theory. |
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Some scholars hold that the Soviet Union was a hybrid entity containing elements common to both multinational empires and nation states. |
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The new Dutch Republic was the most prosperous nation in Europe and led European trade, science, and art. |
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In 1963, the nation established a Federal Republic, with Azikiwe as its first president. |
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The latter nation sponsored and oversaw the construction of Nigeria's parliament buildings. |
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A nation proud of its diverse heritage and its cultural and racial variety will preserve its heritage of dialects. |
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The Uriah Butler Highway, Churchill Roosevelt Highway and the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway links the nation together. |
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Belize is considered a Central American and Caribbean nation with strong ties to both the Latin American and Caribbean regions. |
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These two events have been changing the demographics of the nation for the last 30 years. |
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The nation abounds with restaurants and fast food establishments selling fairly cheaply. |
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As the new Canadian nation expanded after Confederation in 1867, so too did the Anglican Church. |
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The new nation would be confined to the area east of the Appalachian Mountains. |
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In the Middle Ages in many areas of Europe these courts had much wider powers than before the development of nation states. |
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In effect, the nation states reconstituted the lex mercatoria in their image. |
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In summary, nation states somewhat fragmented the medieval lex mercatoria but it is far from destroyed. |
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Their dream of a republic, a nation without hereditary rulers, with power derived from the people in frequent elections, was in doubt. |
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The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority. |
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His service on the Court would extend 34 years over some of the most important rulings to help establish the nation the Constitution had begun. |
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In a nation with an entrenched bill of rights or a written constitution, ex post facto legislation may be prohibited. |
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In addition, Mississippi led the nation for most of the last decade in the growth of mixed marriages among its population. |
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However, from 1981 to 2005, it was at least number four in the nation for federal spending vs. |
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Tornadoes in Tennessee can be severe, and Tennessee leads the nation in the percentage of total tornadoes which have fatalities. |
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The first instance occurred while the nation still operated under the Articles of Confederation. |
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Four of the top five zip codes in the nation for political contributions are in Manhattan. |
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Judicial Review refers that the Constitution is the supreme power of the nation and all laws are under its supremacy. |
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As for public law, it was made that of the conquering British nation after the fall of New France in 1760, that is the common law. |
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The autonomy of the Swaziland nation was influenced by British and Dutch rule of southern Africa in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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In 2002, the nation was suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations due to the reckless farm seizures and blatant election tampering. |
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The Rasenna were to the Romans a foreign nation speaking an unknown tongue. |
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A few scholars also studied which effects caused a nation to switch to a particular electoral system. |
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The autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire was the first nation to allow all women to both vote and run for parliament. |
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In Canada, the main difference in law between treason and high treason depends on whether the nation is at war. |
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The German Empire came to rival Britain as Europe's primary industrial nation during this period. |
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In 1966, the nation adopted the UN General Assembly of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. |
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India also has more deaths from asthma than any other nation according to the World Health Organization. |
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The nation provided an ideal model for showing the value of the railways for speeding the Industrial Revolution. |
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Since Belgium became an independent nation only in 1830, defining nationhood was a special issue for the historians of the late 19th century. |
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Commonly, a nation forms a patent office with responsibility for operating that nation's patent system, within the relevant patent laws. |
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As noted earlier, the rest of Europe was simply against the Sound being controlled by a single nation ever again. |
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The war caused Denmark as a nation severe trauma, forcing it to reconsider its place in the world. |
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But the Sassenach tried to starve the nation at home while the land was full of crops that the British hyenas bought and sold in Rio de Janeiro. |
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The president claims the economy needs a shot in the arm now, but Republicans say the nation should not widen the deficit. |
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Japan is an island nation in East Asia comprising a large stratovolcanic archipelago extending along the Pacific coast of Asia. |
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But we cannot expect a foreign nation to show that apathy to the answers of the President, which are more thrasonic than the addresses. |
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Every time a home is destroyed, the whole nation suffers a severe thundershock. |
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A depression in one nation can become the slide on which our civilization would toboggan into economic collapse. |
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And this autumn, alumni across the nation are beginning a new campaign. |
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Our nation should be a beacon of peace to people around the world. |
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Binational peace talks broke down, so a third nation stepped in to mediate. |
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How could Fox ever win its holiday war now? Surely all would be lost, and the nation would be forced to endure another Chrismahanukwanzakah. |
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The story is well known of how ideas of race and nation made their impact on these extremely diverse cosmopoleis in the 20th century. |
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I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a nation as a standing argument in all ages. |
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Until that night, the dynasty of the Dark Earth had held the nation in a death grip of control. |
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In this dramatic picture, the nation is literally decimated, and even the tenth which remains is subjected to a further destruction. |
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The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed. |
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They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form. |
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No nation had the World by the tail this week, but the rear end of the British lion was within measurable distance of Adolf Hitler's grasp. |
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A second, less used, personification of the nation is the character John Bull. |
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In June 2008, Wales made history by becoming the first nation in the world to be awarded Fairtrade Status. |
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Davy declined to take out a patent on his lamp design effectively giving it to the nation and of course the world's coal miners. |
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With nearly the entire nation freshly ravaged by the Vikings, England was in a desperate state. |
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Especially pressing in Europe was the formation of nation states after the Napoleonic era. |
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Rome was established as a nation by making aggressive use of its high military potential. |
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The paintings were left to the nation by the Duke of Norfolk in lieu of inheritance taxes. |
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Her memory was also revived during the Napoleonic Wars, when the nation again found itself on the brink of invasion. |
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In 1795, the French revolutionary army invaded the Dutch Republic and turned the nation into a satellite of France, named the Batavian Republic. |
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The whole nation depended on these communications, and the void which they left filled up with rumours. |
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The Scottish Enlightenment had numerous dimensions, influencing the culture of the nation in several areas including architecture, art and music. |
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In 1980, Southern Rhodesia, Britain's last African colony, became the independent nation of Zimbabwe. |
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However, Jacques Pierre Brissot drafted a petition, insisting that in the eyes of the nation Louis XVI was deposed since his flight. |
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In 1803, the war resumed but public opinion distrusted Addington to lead the nation in war, and instead favoured Pitt. |
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These changes contributed to the development of nationalism and the nation state. |
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The English had been unified under a single nation state in 937 by King Athelstan of Wessex after the Battle of Brunanburh. |
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In the evening he made another broadcast to the nation asserting the defeat of Japan in the coming months. |
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However he rightly predicted that the nation did not want another civil war. |
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Unlike England, Scotland and Wales, Northern Ireland has no history of being an independent country or of being a nation in its own right. |
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English nationalism is the nationalism that asserts that the English are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of English people. |
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Kings became the heads of centralised nation states, reducing crime and violence but making the ideal of a unified Christendom more distant. |
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Estimates of the Queen's wealth vary, depending on whether assets owned by her personally or held in trust for the nation are included. |
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And, after the coming of the alien nation into it, it was called Kaer Lwndwn. |
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Liverpool has produced several famous swimmers who have gone on to represent their nation at major championships such as the Olympic Games. |
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Territories that have different rates to their respective nation are in italics. |
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Alan Turing was driven to a terrible despair and early death by the nation he'd done so much to save. |
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As long as the soul of a nation grows, it is lifeworthy, and its body will probably expand to suit the expansion of the spirit. |
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The English are a nation and an ethnic group native to England, who speak the English language. |
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The West Indian cricket team includes the South American nation of Guyana, the only former British colony on the mainland of that continent. |
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In 2012, the nation of Haiti, with 9 million people, became the largest CARICOM nation that sought to join the union. |
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There are many gurdwaras prominently constructed and maintained across India, as well as in almost every nation where Sikhs reside. |
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