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How to use the word nations- in a Sentence?

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In the name of money and power, nations collide, Killing each other, as if life's a commodity to decide.

Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
1 month ago

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.

Patrick J. Buchanan

added by Normando
4 months ago

Perhaps I can summarise it best by saying this -- Nations that have pursued equality, like the Iron Curtain countries, I think have finished up with neither equality, nor liberty. Nations, which like us, in the past have pursued liberty, as a fundamental objective, extending it to all, have finished up with liberty, human dignity, and far fewer inequalities than other people.

Margaret Thatcher

added by Normando
4 months ago

This visit is about reaffirming all that unites our two nations. It’s about a commitment to bear one another’s concerns and listen to each other’s dreams. It allows us to overcome every difficulty with great determination. That allows us to move further and faster in space, cyber, technology and all areas that matter most to our future.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
11 months ago

I want Russia and other nations to know the truth. I don’t want war and bloodshed. You see I’m holding a cigarette in this hand. I followed orders with this hand and killed children.

Azamat Uldarov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Inside is beautifully upholstered in primrose yellow silk, and also fitted into the interior, our particular specimen woods. It’s a real microcosm of British and world history. There’re woods from the royal residences, from explorations and from other countries and nations as well.

Sally Goodsir

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the history of the United Nations, no other regime has ever tried to ban women from working for the Organization just because they are women. This decision represents an assault against women, the fundamental principles of the UN, and on international law.

Roza Otunbayeva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is a long history of nations trying to win wars through strategic bombardment, to break the will or capacity of an opposing state to resist, it has an incredibly poor record of success.

Justin Bronk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Instead of playing whack-a-mole on Huawei one day, ZTE the next, Kasperky, TikTok — we need a more comprehensive approach to evaluating and mitigating these threats posed by these foreign technologies from these adversarial nations.

Mark Warner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s frankly an embarrassment that we are one of the seven nations or so that doesn’t have this kind of focus on the family, it’s really, really important that we lead by our example.

Chrissy Houlahan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nations around the world continue to stand with Ukraine, because we all recognize that if we abandon Ukraine, we abandon the UN Charter itself, and the principles and rules that make all our countries safer and more secure: No seizing land by force. No erasing another country’s borders. No targeting civilians in war, if we do not defend these basic principles, we invite a world in which might makes right, the strong dominate the weak.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The long-term survival of skiing and other winter recreation will depend on nations lowering their carbon emissions to avoid the more dire consequences and severe warming in the future.

Robert Wilson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The timing of these exercises is particularly unfortunate and will focus the world’s attention on South Africa during the anniversary of the war. I don’t think Western nations are going to let this one slide, it is very disturbing, that South Africa is hosting a military exercise with the country – an aggressor, invader – that is using its military force against a peaceful country, bringing destruction and trying to eliminate the Ukrainian Nation.

Steven Gruzd

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The greatest thing Nikki Haley did for our Country, and the Great State of South Carolina, was accepting the position of United Nations Ambassador so that the incredible then Lieutenant Governor, Henry McMaster, could be Governor of South Carolina, where he has done an absolutely fantastic job.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This isn’t just a China thing. The US, and other nations as well, have been working on and developing high-altitude aerostats, balloons and similar vehicles, they are cheap, provide long-term persistent stare for collection of imagery, communications and other information – including weather.

Brendan Mulvaney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Protecting the Tongass will support watershed protection, climate benefits, and ecosystem health and protect areas important for jobs and community well-being – and it is directly responsive to input from Tribal Nations.

Homer Wilkes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The big takeaway for me is that Covid did not become the great equalizer [among nations]. It did not help our case at all, if anything, it exposed the existing holes in our health care system.

Georges Benjamin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s very uncomfortable for all of us, but it does at least focus us on our past, on colonization, on what our society is, on what we might want it to be, and how we, particularly on this day, see and understand and recognize the experiences of First Nations people.

Kate Darian-Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Too many racists and too many First Nations people don’t trust the government.

Don Arnold/WireImage/Getty Images Hanshaw

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was brought up in a generation where we weren’t educated about anything of our First Nations history, and I feel like I was denied that history and that knowledge.

Christine Cooper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

… Afghanistan is isolating itself, in the midst of a terrible humanitarian crisis and one of the most vulnerable nations on earth to climate change, we must do everything we can to bridge this gap.

Amina Mohammed

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As you come in here you sense the excitement around the room, i grew up watching the Five Nations - this is an incredible tournament.I had the privilege of playing in it then coaching as an assistant and now as a head coach. I ’m excited, determined to get on the field and get started.The former captain and lock, who coached Leicester to the Premiership title last season, reiterated his aim of getting the supporters back behind the team after a series of poor results and dispiriting performances that led to Eddie Jones sacking.

Steve Borthwick

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

The arms transfers from [North Korea] are in direct violation of United Nations Security Council resolution.

Strategic Communications John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Joe Biden and Democrat hypocrisy is on full display this week following the discovery of classified documents not only at President Biden’s personal office but also unsecured in the garage of Joe Biden private residence. Biden’s Justice Department was weaponized to go after President Trump for Joe Biden alleged mishandling of classified materials, yet President Biden President Trump for his alleged has exposed our nation’s secrets to unknown visitors and President Trump for his alleged son with known ties to adversarial nations.

Lance Gooden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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