nationalist aspirations
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnationalistandaspiration
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nationalist
adjective
uk/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl.ɪst/us/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl.ɪst/
wanting your country to be ...
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aspiration
noun
uk/ˌæs.pɪˈreɪ.ʃən/us/ˌæs.pəˈreɪ.ʃən/
something that you hope ...
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(Definition ofnationalistandaspirationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The focus of nationalist aspirations had moved elsewhere.
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A sense of peoplehood from whatever source, even simply the experience of being mistreated as a group, could engender nationalist aspirations.
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Inevitably, the colonial ionosphere became the arena for the battle between colonial and nationalist aspirations.
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We find much smaller countries cherishing nationalist aspirations.
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Out of this has emerged the tremendous acceleration of nationalist aspirations.
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Unionist and nationalist aspirations will have equal legitimacy, but only so long as they are peacefully and democratically expressed and pursued.
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In the second place, there was the rapid increase of their nationalist aspirations.
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This is not a case of people who have raised the flag of rebellion because they have nationalist aspirations, because they have expansionist aspirations.
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They have engendered such revulsion against insecurity, fear and brutality that they have made nationalists seek change even at the cost of indefinitely postponing their own nationalist aspirations.
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Congress is, so to speak, the spear-head of a movement which represents all those desires coupled with the nationalist aspirations for which particularly it stands.
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We ought not to be paving lip service to every sort of idea just because it is said to be based on nationalist aspirations for self-government or for independence.
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Orchestrated amnesia and reinterpretation of both the historical and recent past had resulted in failure to confront the truth and abandon the legacy of expansionist nationalist aspirations.
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