advanced nation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofadvancedandnation
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advanced
adjective
uk/ədˈvɑːnst/us/ədˈvænst/
modern and ...
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nation
noun
uk/ˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ˈneɪ.ʃən/
a country, especially when thought of as a large group of people living in one area with their own government, language, ...
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(Definition ofadvancedandnationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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No otheradvancednationhas chosen to go down the same route.
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Because we are anadvancednationwith great productive capacity, we undoubtedly have a duty to help these countries.
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Everyadvancednationis attempting to spot its specially gifted mathematicians and other specially gifted children early.
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We have to decide about this, not on any constitutional question but in discharge of our duty as in anadvancednation.
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We are the onlyadvancednationto be investing less than we were 10 years ago in non-defence research and development.
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One does not doubt this, because the ability of this country to remain a technologicallyadvancednationis essential to everybody's standard of living.
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Does he recognise that, whereas every otheradvancednationhas increased the percentage of national wealth invested in education in the past 10 years, ours has been decreased?
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If we are to survive as anadvancednation, we have to move towards providing all our citizens with opportunities for education and training throughout their lives.
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Therefore, in common with every otheradvancednationwe must now see that our energy supplies over the next half century and beyond are increasingly dependent on nuclear power.
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Ours is anadvancednation, but in the domestic and international arena we frequently promote policies that are uncivilised and inhumane.
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Anyadvancednation, particularly if it is an importing nation, which does not have self-sufficiency in food production within the next 30 years, will not eat.
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In no otheradvancednationin the world is it necessary to argue that nursery education and childcare are an indivisible and vital part of national and personal development.
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In mocking the adoption by a barbaric country of the cultural values of anadvancednation, it takes a tilt at the cultural aspects of imperialism.
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On the cusp of the new millennium, the welfare state no longer provides a valid template for the domestic policy of advanced nations.
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I am not suggesting that ' developing nations ' are following in the footsteps of ' advanced nations ', nor that there would not be obvious discontinuities.
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The representatives of the more advanced nations, who had quite enough meetings, were looking for the next meeting three or four years ahead.
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More than 75% of the benefits derived from enhanced information capabilities are concentrated only in advanced nations.
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It can demonstrate by concrete schemes of development that if the advanced nations want to do it, all those problems can be solved.
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What would happen if other advanced nations did the same?
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It is certainly a major industry of the technologically advanced nations of the world.
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