Citations:nation

English citations of nation

• 1795, Antient Metaphysics, volume 4:

  If [Jesus] had come sooner, and in the days of ignorance, his doctrine could not have been received.—This [is] proved by the example of barbarous nations, who cannot be converted to the Christian Religion;—and of the Jews themselves.—The singular circumstance of the Jews, that they are a nation without a country:—They are in all nations, and of no nation.

• 1918, George MacAdam, Czechoslovakia, the nation without a country: An oppressed nationality with a fighting army. No territorial sovereignty but recognized by Great Britain, France, and Italy as an Allied Nation. This means the dismemberment of Austria-Hungary. in The World's Work, volume 36, page 628
• 1943, Readings in Geography of the Mediterranean Region (The Geographical Review), page 90:

  The Mzabites are one of the numerous "nations" making up Africa Minor. This kind of nation, so strange in our European eyes, is a common feature in Eastern political and social life. The Parsis in India, the Amenians in the Turkish empire, and above all the Jews everywhere are exactly of the same national pattern as the Algerian Mzabites. They are a nation without a country, […]

• 1946, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume 139, page 212:

  Turkey never succeeded in pacifying the Kurds who are a nation without a country and are spread over a vast territory far into Syria — a territory of great strategic importance to Russia.

• 1996, Margot Badran, Feminists, Islam, and Nation →ISBN, page 108:

  IAW feminism also could not respond to those feminisms which emerged in nations without countries, such as certain ethnic groups from the former Russian and Austro-Hungarian monarchies. Because membership in the IAW was country-based, many easter European national feminist groups, such as the Ukrainians in the new Soviet Union, could not affiliate with the international feminist body.

• 2005, Richard Miniter, Shadow War →ISBN:

  By June 2002, bin Laden had reportedly moved south into Baluchistan, a mountainous, autonomous tribal region in western Pakistan. It was a sensible place for him to hide. The Baluch are a nation without a country; their ancestral homeland straddles Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.