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Example sentences for "national life"

  • And there is no history more instructive than yours, because you have concentrated within the narrow scope of a few years that natural process of national life, which elsewhere was achieved only through centuries.

  • Every one of these periods of national life must be gone through.

  • Let the people of every language become a separate state: for every nation has a right to national life, and to us, the language, and nothing else, is the nationality.

  • The epic of national life, vividly conceived but rudely executed by Ennius, was perfected in the years that followed the decisive victory at Actium.

  • Though in effect embracing the lines of fleet supply, they correspond in strategical values not to military lines of supply, but to those internal lines of communication by which the flow of national life is maintained ashore.

  • But on land also there are communications of a kind which are essential to national life--the internal communications which connect the points of distribution.

  • So much for the positive value which the sea has in national life.

  • Its record is in large part the record of a national life: it is historical.

  • Thus religion would be put in its true place as at once the foundation and the coping stone of national life.

  • They felt that, doing this, they were right; that is to say, they became inspired by the Shinto sanctions for a national life.

  • It wishes to learn of the good that foreign lands have attained, and to apply the knowledge in such wise as shall fit most advantageously into the national life.

  • The same questions recur at this new period of Japan's national life.

  • It kept down, and in many countries almost destroyed, the vigorous and aspiring local and national life which, in every country, was striving after self-expression.

  • Hence it is highly pertinent here and now to examine them, for in this identity of foundation is to be found the primary unity of the now diffused life of Europe which has parted into so many and so widely divergent currents of national life.

  • Mr. Lavender: If you are indeed the invisible king swaying the currents of national life, and turning its tides at will, it is essential that we should believe in you; and before we can believe in you must we not know all about you?

  • Amidst all the triumphs of genius and the splendors of art, there was no national life, and Greece died.

  • Proceeding from a Congress of all, such a claim marks yet another stage of national life.

  • When the European continent was weakened by anarchy, they were already strong in national life, with an influence beyond their population or means.

  • As these are crowded together, or occur more widely apart, national life, like individual, shows a variable rapidity, depending upon the intensity of thought and action.

  • The Arabs furnish a striking illustration of the successive phases of national life.

  • But in this younger school, poetry separated itself entirely from the national life, or dealt with it only in the form of personal epigrams on the popular leaders and their partisans.

  • National life, in order to maintain its integrity, must move upon a plane of intense feeling.

  • It is in these aspects of national life that we find the motives of war as they may be considered as a practical problem.

  • Fear of fate, fear of losing identity as a nation, fear of being overrun by an enemy, fear of internal disruption, are strong motives in national life.

  • National life, like all life, is a whole, the various phenomena of which are most intimately connected with one another.

  • The great difference lies in this, that the cameralist interests himself in the production of material goods for their own sake, while the political economist regards them only in their relations to national life.

  • Voltaire, let us add, was no dilettante traveller constructing views and deducing theories of national life out of his own uninstructed consciousness.

  • How can the two main divisions of national life be brought together in a national solidarity?

  • It would be very unbusinesslike for any country to contemplate the permanence in national life of a class whose personal interests are always leading them to fleece both producer and consumer alike.

  • But in national life it is the most dangerous of all guides.

  • But they learned their first lessons of national life in the wilderness, untrammeled by environment and under a wise leader, who sought to train up a nation of kings instead of a kingdom.

  • What were the three great centers of national life in the Oriental world?

  • In the Bible world three centers of national life arose, not far apart in time, each of which became a powerful kingdom, and in turn ruled all the Oriental lands.

  • True history records processes, the relation of cause and effect, the formative influences and their result in national life.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    apparent death; died away; moral support; national affairs; national bank; national character; national currency; national drama; national economy; national education; national feeling; national game; national highway; national industry; national institution; national literature; national monument; national prosperity; national referendum; national security; national self; national wealth; natural love; thus replied; uniform rule; word more