7 sentences with “sentiment”

When ships carrying American civilians were sunk in 1917, American public sentiment finally changed and the US declared war on Germany in April 1917.

The other major power involved in the war, the United States, arrived late to the fighting. The United States was dominated by "isolationist" sentiment until the end of the war.

The state is usually considered to be "the legally organised nation" and the inhabitants of a nation are united by a common sentiment that underpins their will to be part of that nation.

According to Tocqueville, a newspaper owes its subsistence to the fact that it reproduces a doctrine or a sentiment common to a large number of men; in other words, it represents its readers.

Nevertheless, many Americans rejected the elitist and aristocratic republican order and advocated radical changes. Their efforts represented a groundswell of sentiment for greater equality, part of the democratic impulse unleashed by the Revolution.

After the Mexican War, anti-slavery sentiment crept into American politics when the new Free-Soil party quickly elected Martin Van Buren as its presidential candidate. For the first time, a national political party committed itself to the goal of stopping the expansion of slavery.

A staggering 2.5 million Indian soldiers served the British Empire during World War II despite rising nationalist sentiment, but returned after victory in Europe to find a social and political system that was still designed to keep Indians out of positions of importance in the Indian administration.