sense of nationhood
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandnationhood
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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nationhood
noun[U]
uk/ˈneɪ.ʃən.hʊd/us/ˈneɪ.ʃən.hʊd/
the fact of being a nation (= a country with its own government, language, ...
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(Definition ofsenseandnationhoodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A country that was civilized possessed asenseofnationhood, and as such displayed the political (and moral) capacity for self-determination.
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To constitute a nation examines how asenseofnationhoodcould be achieved in the absence of any external threat.
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The pluralistsenseofnationhood, being fluid and open-ended, confidently anticipated future developments.
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His argument, often stated, but seldom developed, does raise the interesting question of the possible correlation between a country's economic performance and the strength of itssenseofnationhood.
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But each aimed to mobilize not just their parties, but the country, in a heroic crusade that would educate the people into the rightsenseofnationhood.
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From that moment thesenseofnationhoodin this country diminished.
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Anyone who has visited that country cannot fail to be impressed by the strongsenseofnationhoodfelt by her people.
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People's sense of identity derives principally from theirsenseofnationhood.
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I do not see why we should deny asenseofnationhoodof this kind.
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They have a separatesenseofnationhoodand are at the moment under a great sense of threat.
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In many ways we lack asenseofnationhood.
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I was making the point that one cannot be human without having asenseofnationhood.
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Asenseofnationhoodcan affect what goes on in a factory.
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It may be that the struggle of war produces a strongersenseofnationhood, and so of responsibility to one another.
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We need to recapture thatsenseofnationhood.
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We should recognise thatsenseofnationhood.
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We have lost oursenseofnationhood.
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But they turned down the proposal because, after 50 years of self-government they had acquired asenseofnationhoodthat forbade them accepting the federal proposal.
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Scotland should also be afforded representation according to itssenseofnationhood.
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They are part of a long struggle, starting before independence, to create asenseofnationhoodagainst traditional and fissiparous forces in boundaries that were artificial.
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