11 sentences with 'nationalists'
Example sentences and phrases with the word nationalists and other words derived from it.
• « The Brothers Grimm were Romantic nationalists par excellence. Many romantics like them believed that nations had spirits, which were invested with the central identity of their "people". »
• « The point of the Brothers Grimm's work was to reach into the remote past to capture the "essence" of what it meant to be "German". At the time, there was no country called Germany, and yet romantic nationalists like the Grimms believed that there was a kind of Germanic soul that lived in the old folk songs, the German language and German traditions. »
• « In many cases, the romantic nationalists did something that historians later called "inventing traditions". »
• « In non-German areas such as the Czech lands and Hungary, after news broke in Vienna, nationalists rose up in the regional capitals of Prague and Budapest demanding their own independent nations. »
• « This very lack of unity was, however, a source of inspiration for the nationalists of the first half of the 19th century. »
• « Such radical nationalists had their day in the revolutions of 1848, but then saw their hopes dashed when the conservative kings of Prussia and Austria rallied their military forces and regained power. »
• « The result was that elite Indians too often came up against a 'glass ceiling' in the British Raj, able to rise to positions of importance but without real leadership. In turn, resentful elite Indians became the first Indian nationalists, organising what later became the Indian independence movement. »
• « Serbian nationalists were proud of their Slavic heritage, and Russia became a powerful ally largely because of the Slavic connection between Russians and Serbs (i.e. they spoke related languages and the Russian and Serbian Orthodox churches were part of the same branch of Christianity). Russia also supported Serbia because of Russian rivalry with Austria. »
• « Serb nationalists believed that, with Russian support, it would be possible to create an international crisis in Austrian-controlled Bosnia and ultimately take over Bosnia itself. The Serbs did not believe that Austria would risk a full-scale war with Russia to hold on to Bosnia. »
• « Socialists and liberals were increasingly militant in the early 1920s, and Catalan and Basque nationalists also agitated for independence from Spain. »
• « Vietnam provides perhaps the most emblematic example. What was "really" a struggle for independence became a global conflict because of the socialist ideology espoused by the Viet Minh nationalists. »