noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a member state/country/nation (= a country that belongs to an international organization )
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the member states of the European Union
developed countries/nations
developing countries/nations
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aid to developing countries
Francophone countries/nations/communities
industrial countries/nations/states
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a meeting of the world’s major industrial nations
nation state
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European union is seen as a threat to the sovereignty of the nation state.
subjugated people/nation/country
sweep the country/nation/state etc
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a wave of nationalism sweeping the country
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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
entire
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Theirs is a tragedy for our entire nation .
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All groups should enthusiastically coordinate their social and economic activities to achieve the good of the entire nation .
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What is good for the food industry can be fatally bad for the health of the entire nation .
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Probably not, although there is no uniform law on this question applicable to the entire nation .
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Complete public humiliation in front of the entire nation is a prospect likely to make a man reckless, desperate even.
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Imagine an entire nation of people missing their mutton.
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It was an entire nation of pragmatists, each individual swaying with the prevailing wind to ensure his or her own future.
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It must involve the total mobilization of the creative energies, imagination and problem-solving capacities of the entire nation .
industrial
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No advanced industrial nation gives corporations a freer hand in busting unions.
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The conference, bringing together the world's seven leading industrial nations , centred on trade talks.
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Seatbelt-use rates are higher in other industrial nations than in the United States.
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The major, Western industrial nations are today using 17% less energy per unit of economic growth than they were in 1973.
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He remains a federal employee and is handling preparations for the upcoming meeting of the seven major industrial nations .
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We were then the greatest industrial nation on earth.
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In the end the Group of Seven leading industrial nations supported the debt relief campaign for two reasons.
other
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If other nations want the data, they should share the costs, it says.
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Almost all the characteristics that I enumerate apply to other nations in one way or another.
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If he can alter the fortunes of the superpower state for the better, other nations will follow.
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They go about this work, however, in a way somewhat different from computer firms in other nations .
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The policy traditions are again quite distinctive in other nations .
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What other nation can not even settle on its own name?
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Now, finally, Taylor is urging some one to climb above the heap. Other nations always have.
poor
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Greater stability would give poorer nations the opportunity to reduce their own military expenditure.
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Eighty percent of the legal needs of the poor of our nation , mostly minorities, are not met.
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This runs parallel with the use of force to suppress uprisings in poor nations against policies of these same institutions.
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One such factor is economic: Poor nations are simply unable to afford environmentally sound consumption and production practices.
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But the poorer nations would also have to accept binding targets for cutting emissions.
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We are a poor , underdeveloped nation .
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Global surpluses can likewise be meaningless to the dozens of poor nations that have overwhelming demands placed on slim foreign exchange reserves.
rich
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The education target is in even more danger unless richer nations act. / Happy as Lowry?
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Around the globe, the richer nations have made easing the overcrowding of third world cities a top aid priority.
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The rich industrial nations dominate the global economy, they believe.
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His are the kind, I must suppose, that make men rich and nations prosperous.
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In 1993, for every dollar given in aid rich nations took back three in debt repayments.
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The Soviet Union has the potential to be one of the richest nations on earth.
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While poor countries have liberalised their markets, rich nations have remained protectionist, especially in areas such as textiles and agriculture.
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Encouragement and funding by richer nations could establish more national parks, essential for preserving the many different kinds of forest.
western
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The major, Western industrial nations are today using 17% less energy per unit of economic growth than they were in 1973.
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This same change of emphasis has occurred in the industry of all the Western industrial nations .
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Most Western nations tolerate Salmonella in chickens and scrapie in sheep, but this must change.
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But leading Western nations argued that the Bank management had not considered its environmental and social effects properly.
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The Marxist tradition emphasises the dominance of capital in the economy of western nations .
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This is tragedy, completely unacceptable when comfortable Western nations are replete with food, and waste huge amounts of it.
whole
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Regional unemployment and regional recession are an economic loss to the whole nation and they will not rectify themselves on their own.
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In these samples, less than a few thousand people may represent a whole nation of viewers.
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Champion recovered from cancer during 1979 / 80 to make a recovery that the whole nation could marvel at.
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A whole nation , all of civilized society, perhaps, seeking the blameless state of madness.
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Far better condemn the whole nation to watching television.
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He called forth again the language of the elect, but turned it from the Puritan community to the whole nation .
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I hope that the decision taken tonight will be to the benefit of the whole nation .
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Formerly, the rich depended in some way on the well-being of the whole nation .
■ NOUN
member
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All member nations who wish to be represented are allowed to have one vote - nomatterhow large or small the nations are.
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He sees the United Nations not simply as bloated, but as encroaching dangerously and purposefully on the sovereignty of member nations .
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Such information is to be forwarded to other member nations by the Commission.
state
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We have been a nation state for a very long time.
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The bottom line was that in the Soviet Union, as in every other nation state in history, money talked.
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On the one hand they are rebuilding in Berlin the grandiose capital of a restored nation state .
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These constitute the basis upon which the very possibility of a nation state rests.
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And people live still inside nation states with all their dense allegiances and histories.
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First, collecting relevant data on the independent nation states of the world can be difficult and time-consuming.
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The extension of the method to aggregate data on nation states will certainly follow, but will involve more complicated techniques.
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Virtually all nation states are multi-national, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-cultural.
■ VERB
become
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Answer: We are becoming a nation without culture.
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Neither became nation states until the nineteenth century.
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Britain became an elderly nation before others started to turn grey.
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I believe that generosity becomes less between nations , as the world economy heads for a more frightening decline.
develop
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And we claim to be a developed nation .
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At the same time, developing nations are growing more and more thirsty for energy as their industries grow.
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In the years since, developing nations have closed the gap with remarkable speed.
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Sensitive to such shortcomings, family planning agencies in many developing nations have taken steps to make services more accessible.
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The average person in a developing nation consumes only 1, 031 pounds of food.
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One obvious way for developing nations to get the money is for outside donors to give it to them.
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The competition between the superpowers to purchase the friendship of developing nations was over.
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So far we have concentrated on the future of the developed nations .
lead
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But it is becoming increasingly important that an accord on foreign corporate investment is negotiated between leading industrial nations .
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But leading Western nations argued that the Bank management had not considered its environmental and social effects properly.
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California leads the nation in shifting to managed care, with San Diego County in the vanguard.
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Above all: Is Clinton ready to lead the nation ?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
England is a nation of shopkeepers
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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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industrialized nations
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Japan has become one of the richest nations in the world.
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Representatives from the world's leading industrial nations will meet in Geneva.
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The President's speech to the nation lasted about ten minutes.
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We are a nation of both great wealth and terrible poverty.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But this cautious, adroit, enigmatic leader seemed for long to be very much what the nation and the times required.
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Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations.
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For a host of reasons, the nation today has much for which to be thankful.
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Now, with the morning Times on breakfast tables across the nation , the news was out.
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Statistics show that there are three million women in this nation supporting themselves in the crowded cities of the East.
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The possibility of resistance lay in an appeal to the sovereign nation in the form of the mob.