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Nations thus tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the counsels of seeming expediency and ungenerous ambition, although measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them. [7]
Nations as well as individuals, however, must be judged by their intentions. [9]

Sentences ending with nations

In peril--here with your own people, in Europe with the nations. [11]
He was called upon to legislate for America and direct her policy when all Europe was the battlefield of contending dynasties, and when the struggle for supremacy imperilled the rights of all neutral nations. [7]
We see how, upon the result of the debate in which we are engaged, a war may ensue between the United States and one, two, or even more European nations. [7]
He is the true consolidator of nations. [5]
The river was the Tennessee, and the place the resort of the Chickamauga bandits, pirates of the mountains, outcasts of all nations. [9]
In regard to the moral qualities, some elimination of the worst dispositions is always in progress even in the most civilised nations. [1]
The possession of the least organized naval force would stimulate a generous ambition in the republic, and the confidence which we should manifest by furnishing it would win forbearance and favor toward the colony from all civilized nations. [7]
Nothing could wipe that out, neither law nor nations. [11]
From thence eastward stretched the great waste of prairie and forest inhabited by roving bands of the forty Indian nations. [9]
Judged by broad standards, it may safely be admitted that the American newspaper is susceptible of some improvement, and that it has something to learn from the journals of other nations. [4]

Sentences containing nations two or more times

All historians agree that the external activity of states and nations in their conflicts with one another is expressed in wars, and that as a direct result of greater or less success in war the political strength of states and nations increases or decreases. [2]
Not only powerful nations shall cease to exploit little nations, but powerful individuals shall cease to exploit their fellow men. [9]
There are many nations in the world, and each group of nations has its own gods, and will pay no worship to the gods of the others. [5]
At the present day civilised nations are everywhere supplanting barbarous nations, excepting where the climate opposes a deadly barrier; and they succeed mainly, though not exclusively, through their arts, which are the products of the intellect. [1]
But in that case, if the force that moves nations lies not in the historic leaders but in the nations themselves, what significance have those leaders? [2]

More example sentences with the word nations in them

And it is worth reflection what we should do, what could we spend our energies on, and what would evoke them, we who are both civilized and enlightened, if all nations were civilized and the earth were entirely subdued. [4]
It was a wonderful show, but the moving masses of people of all nations we saw there were a still more wonderful show. [5]
It was possible with this man to fully test one's respect for age, which is in all civilized nations a duty. [4]
In our dealings with other nations, we yielded often to imperialistic ambitions and thus, to a certain extent, justified the cynicism of Europe. [9]
They know whether with all their leisure they get placidity of mind and the real rest which the older nations have learned to enjoy. [4]
Was it not with a divine purpose that this measureless force of patriotism and high ideal had been given to this youngest of the nations, that its high mission might be fulfilled? [9]
He it was who arranged with my creditors to allow me to roam the face of the earth for four years and persecute the nations thereof with lectures, promising that at the end of four years I would pay dollar for dollar. [5]
Of the causes which lead to the victory of civilised nations, some are plain and simple, others complex and obscure. [1]
In the harbour were the men-of-war of all nations, and Arab dhows sailed slowly in, laden with pilgrims for Mecca--masses of picturesque sloth and dirt--and disease also; for more than one vessel flew the yellow flag. [11]
I thought this was what Germany should do also without delay, and that France and all the other nations in China should follow suit. [5]
That the habit was most extensively practised during former times, even by the ancestors of civilised nations, is clearly shewn by the preservation of many curious customs and ceremonies, of which Mr. M'Lennan has given an interesting account. [1]
There is nothing very elegant or interesting in the record so far, but it all has to do with the annexation of Pango Wango, and, as Blithelygo long afterwards remarked, it shows how nations sometimes acquire territory. [11]
With the nations turned to see, he had made a gallant and splendid fight, and now he was a prisoner in a French fortress. [11]
These literatures are true in so far as they reflect the characteristics of the nations from which they spring. [9]
For a reply to these questions the common sense of mankind turns to the science of history, whose aim is to enable nations and humanity to know themselves. [2]
We seek not to take up our abode in other nations and in the cities of the infidel. [11]
If Spain was to give up the plaything, the Youngest Child among the Nations ought to have it. [9]
We shall have to fight two nations instead of one. [7]
If Germany continues to destroy shipping on the seas, if we are not able to supply our new armies and the Allied nations with food and other things, the increasing social ferment will paralyze the military operations of the Entente. [9]
I understand it to be a principle of Democracy to whip foreign nations whenever, they interfere with us. [7]
It was intended to be a nation in which the welfare of the people is the supreme object, and whatever its show among nations it fails if it does not become this. [4]
At any rate, those nations that have the most of it are the most prosperous, and those people who have the most of it are the most agreeable to associate with. [4]
With civilised nations this primary check acts chiefly by restraining marriages. [1]
The forbearance of this government had been so extraordinary and so long continued as to lead some foreign nations to shape their action as if they supposed the early destruction of our national Union was probable. [7]
But the remarkable thing about it is that heretofore in all nations and times, and in all changes of fashion in dress, the rose has held its own as the queen of flowers and as the finest expression of sentiment. [4]
He had left these quiet scenes inexperienced and untravelled, to be thrust suddenly into the thick of a struggle of nations over a sick land. [11]
I frown, and there is war; I smile, and contending nations lay down their arms. [5]
She has been the watcher of the world, the one who looks on, and suffers, as the rest of the nations struggle for and wound her in their turn. [11]
More and more the older and younger nations are getting to be proud and really fond of each other. [6]
That is what the nations practise in the islands of the South Seas. [11]
The awakening of the nations of Europe from the dark ages is a still more perplexing problem. [1]
Yet how, in the most unfamiliar places, does one wake suddenly to hear or see some most familiar thing, and learn again that the ways of all people and nations are not, after all, so far apart! [11]
On foreign nations the influence of the proclamation and of these new victories was of great importance. [7]
She saw for the first time the dignitaries of so many different nations upon whom she was gazing down, and most of whom she did not even know by name. [10]
She has kept the calendar of the ages--has outlasted all other nations, and remains the same as they change and pass. [11]
The nations of the air sent their legions here to bivouac, and the discord of a hundred languages might be heard far out to sea, far in upon the land. [11]
Those who believe that there is a living Providence that overrules and conducts the affairs of nations, find in the elevation of this plain man to this extraordinary fortune and to this great duty, which he so fitly discharged, a signal vindication of their faith. [7]
He realised now that such a fate was not for him-- that he must fight, not on the field of battle like a prince, but in a Court of Nations like a doubtful claimant of sovereign honours. [11]
The reason is that Spain sends her heaviest ships of war and her loudest guns to astonish these Muslims, while America and other nations send only a little contemptible tub of a gunboat occasionally. [5]
It would seem that having rejected the belief of the ancients in man's subjection to the Deity and in a predetermined aim toward which nations are led, modern history should study not the manifestations of power but the causes that produce it. [2]
All such collisions tend to excite misapprehensions, and possibly to produce mutual reclamations between nations which have a common interest in preserving peace and friendship. [7]
Money is the supreme ideal--all others take tenth place with the great bulk of the nations named. [5]
Then the skillful statesmen and diplomatists (especially Talleyrand, who managed to sit down in a particular chair before anyone else and thereby extended the frontiers of France) talked in Vienna and by these conversations made the nations happy or unhappy. [2]
He had no stable place among the men of all nations, and yet secret rites and mysteries and a language which was known from Bokhara to Wandsworth, and from Waikiki to Valparaiso, gave him dignity of a kind, clothed him with importance. [11]
You turn a small intrigue into a game of nations. [11]
Though twenty nations should unite to judge, where might proof be found--inside the palace, where all men lie and bear false witness? [11]
Now that you should know, I have made you as great a discovery as he, for less charge than he spendeth you every meale; I had sent you this mappe of the Countries and Nations that inhabit them, as you may see at large. [4]
For Thee my ships have brought across the sea The tribute of the nations. [10]
If Great Britain shall choose to recognize them as lawful belligerents, and give them shelter from our pursuit and punishment, the laws of nations afford an adequate and proper remedy [and we shall avail ourselves of it. [7]
The effects of severe epidemics and wars are soon counterbalanced, and more than counterbalanced, in nations placed under favourable conditions. [1]
Valmond took the seat offered him beside the Cure, who remarked presently: "My dear friend, Monsieur Garon, was saying just now that the spirit of France has ever been the Captain of Freedom among the nations. [11]
Had He, indeed, saved it for a People, a People to be drawn from all nations, from all classes? [9]
If the Almighty Ruler of nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people. [7]
Many of the rooms were named from the nations whose styles of decoration and furnishing were imitated in them, but others had the simple designation of the gold room, the silver room, the lapis-lazuli room, and so on. [4]
And I, David Ritchie, saw the flags of three nations waving over it in the space of two days. [9]
He had a right to his adoption, he had no right to his duchy--no real right in the equity of nations. [11]
Darius respected the religions and customs of other nations. [10]
The principal lever relied on by the insurgents for exciting foreign nations to hostility against us, as already intimated, is the embarrassment of commerce. [7]
It seemed to relegate the war-talk to the politicians on both sides of the water; whereas whenever a prospective war between two nations had been in the air theretofore, the public had done most of the talking and the bitterest. [5]
I have, therefore, reckoned upon the forbearance of nations. [7]
In 1812 it reaches its extreme limit, Moscow, and then, with remarkable symmetry, a countermovement occurs from east to west, attracting to it, as the first movement had done, the nations of middle Europe. [2]
It is also probable that the increased fertility of civilised nations would become, as with our domestic animals, an inherited character: it is at least known that with mankind a tendency to produce twins runs in families. [1]
At last the President, rising in his place, read the pronouncement of the Court: that Detricand, Prince of Vaufontaine, be declared true inheritor of the duchy of Bercy, the nations represented here confirming him in his title. [11]
Neither hunger, thirst, poverty, grief, hatred, contempt, nor persecution could drive the Mormons from their faith or their allegiance; and even the thirst for gold, which gleaned the flower of the youth and strength of many nations was not able to entice them! [5]
Upon it the peoples of all nations pass and repass. [11]
How should the past life of nations and of humanity be regarded--as the result of the free, or as the result of the constrained, activity of man? [2]
And in the parable of the Prodigal Son may be read the history of what are known as the Protestant nations. [9]
Even in our own day a war, that cost millions of treasure and rivers of blood, was fought because two rival nations claimed the sole right to put a new dome upon it. [5]
With a common origin, a common language, a common literature, a common religion, and--common drinks, what is longer needful to the cementing of the two nations together in a permanent bond of brotherhood? [5]
With a common origin, a common language, a common literature, a common religion and--common drinks, what is longer needful to the cementing of the two nations together in a permanent bond of brotherhood? [5]
They met midway on the staff, hung together for a space, and a salute to the two nations echoed among the hills across the waters of the great River that rolled impassive by. [9]
But some remarks on the action of natural selection on civilised nations may be worth adding. [1]
In the realm of thought the Greek is sovereign of the nations, and he has given to perishable matter a perfection of form which has elevated and vivified it to immortality. [10]
Of the first of these three nations we know scarcely anything but through fabulous tales; by attacking them we should lose much and gain little. [10]
But America, youngest of the nations, was born when modern science was gathering the momentum which since has enabled it to overcome, with a bewildering rapidity, many evils previously held by superstition to be ineradicable. [9]
If the condition of our relations with other nations is less gratifying than it has usually been at former periods, it is certainly more satisfactory than a nation so unhappily distracted as we are might reasonably have apprehended. [7]
War in defense of national life is not immoral, and war in defense of independence is an inevitable part of the discipline of nations. [7]
He was conscious of it, and shifted his ground, pointing out the dangers of doing what the other nations interested in Egypt were not prepared to do. [11]
The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds. [7]
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved. [5]
The English, he notes, change their fashions every year, and when they go abroad riding or traveling they don their best clothes, contrary to the practice of other nations. [4]
Those nations, however, not improbably saw from the first that it was the Union which made as well our foreign as our domestic commerce. [7]
The ancients did not even entertain the idea, nor do the Oriental nations at the present day. [1]
There are certain needs, certain tendencies of development in nations as well as in individuals,--needs stronger than the state, stronger than the law or constitution. [9]
It takes eighty nations, speaking eighty languages, to people her, and they number three hundred millions. [5]
The great Indian nations were making a frantic effort to drive from their hunting grounds the little bands of settlers there, and these were in sore straits. [9]
Hence in civilised nations there will be some tendency to an increase both in the number and in the standard of the intellectually able. [1]
Thus two great nations stand as one In honoring Twain. [5]
Indeed, for the nations of the world to spring, commercially speaking, at one another's throats would be suicidal even if it were possible. [9]
What did the nations of the earth know about him? [10]
For the other nations mentioned, see references in Lawrence, 'Lectures on Physiology,' etc., 1822, p. [1]
There are many nations here, alas! [11]
The law of nations and the usages and customs of war, as carried on by civilized powers, permit no distinction as to color in the treatment of prisoners of war as public enemies. [7]
Cambyses laughed at my reasons, and ended by swearing, when he was already somewhat intoxicated, that he could carry out difficult undertakings and subdue powerful nations, even without the help of Bartja and Phanes. [10]
But here's something more the biggest game ever played between nations by a private person--with fifty thousand pounds as the end thereof, if all goes well with my lone corvette. [11]
But in the moonlight, her fourteen centuries of greatness fling their glories about her, and once more is she the princeliest among the nations of the earth. [5]
The love of money is natural to all nations, for money is a good and strong friend. [5]
The ambassadors and ministers of foreign nations not only have generous salaries, but their Governments provide them with money wherewith to pay a considerable part of their hospitality bills. [5]
Alexandria was a metropolis even in the modern sense; not merely an emporium of commerce, but a focus where the intellectual and religious treasures of various countries were concentrated and worked up, and transmitted to all the nations that desired them. [10]
With Clemens it may truly be said that profanity was an art--a pyrotechnic art that entertained nations. [5]

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