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nation-building

noun

  1. the advocacy of national solidarity in South Africa in the post-apartheid era


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But his may be one of the most altruistic motives behind DIY nation-building yet.

The Western idea of nation building was the future of Arabia.

It is surely preferable to blood-letting in the guise of ideologically-guided nation-building.

Back at Foggy Bottom… More than three years after U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq, nation-building proceeds apace.

Nation building in a country as destitute and decentralized as Afghanistan, he argued, was hopeless.

We have now to enquire what have been the results of the process of nation-building.

Quotations from the early charters make it clear that there was a wonderful religious significance in their nation building.

It was a summons across the centuries to a new and profound application of the principles of religion to nation building.

Instead of leveling down, Canada's nation building is leveling up.

The work therefore of nation-building must be carried forward on each plane.

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