10 sentences with 'nationalist'
Example sentences and phrases with the word nationalist and other words derived from it.
• « Although she was soon captured and handed over to the English to be tried and executed as a witch by the Burgundians, Joan of Arc became a martyr to the French cause and, eventually, one of the most important French nationalist symbols. »
• « This was to instil nationalist pride in a specific group of military recruits, not to celebrate a 'true' Scottish tradition. »
• « Romantic nationalism was an integral part of today's nationalist political movements, movements that emerged in earnest in the immediate aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. »
• « Central to the nationalist movements was the concept that the state should correspond to the identity of a "people", although who or what defines the identity "of the people" often proved to be a vexing question. »
• « After 1848, conservatism itself slowly adopted liberal and nationalist traits, culminating in the conservative-led national unifications in Italy and Germany. »
• « That year, across Europe, there was a series of revolutions that combined the liberal, socialist and nationalist movements in a temporary alliance against the conservative order. »
• « The most spectacular successes of 19th century nationalist movements occurred in Italy and Germany, two areas with long-standing regional identities but a complete lack of political unity. »
• « After all, liberal and nationalist legal frameworks had triumphed almost everywhere in Europe by the end of the twentieth century, but significantly the voting rights of each nation's citizens remained limited. »
• « For example, when oil fields were discovered in Persia in 1908, European interest in Middle Eastern imperialism reached a fever pitch, as European powers cultivated contacts among Arab nationalist groups and undermined the waning unity of the Ottoman Empire. »
• « World War I began because of the culmination of nationalist rivalries, fears and hatreds. It failed to resolve any of these rivalries, and was such a traumatic experience for most Europeans that certain otherwise "normal" people were attracted to the messianic and violent rhetoric of fascism and Nazism. »