I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Nationalist/Republican etc cause (= their aims and organization )
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The election results were a serious blow to the Nationalist cause.
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■ NOUN
area
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The strategy involved removing troops to barracks and standing down checkpoints in nationalist areas .
cause
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Yuri Skokov, Secretary of the Security Council, was considered sympathetic to the nationalist cause .
forces
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At times, his grip on the nationalist forces appeared to be failing.
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In Belgrade, by contrast, Milosevic had remained a political actor, and a pivot for extreme nationalist forces .
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At the present time the strength of the Catholic and nationalist forces in the North lies in their political discipline and restraint.
leader
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The nationalist leader often had to invent a unifying culture as well as lead.
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Whole provinces were deprived of their nationalist leaders .
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The nationalist leader did something similar with the cultural detritus of the past to create a new national group.
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The differences of opinion among nationalist leaders added to the problem.
movement
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At the time it seemed as if the government had crushed the nationalist movement by locking up its leaders for life.
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Many nationalist movements were to appear before 1914.
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From the outset of the Corsican nationalist movement the real decision-making has mostly been in the hands of armed groups.
party
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Two extreme nationalist parties took the rest.
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About another 25 percent of the voters here supported other leftist or nationalist parties .
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Veterans' associations and nationalist parties have also threatened mass protests.
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The third is the loose grouping of leaders of republics and nationalist parties .
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In order to ensure the support of the nationalist parties Shamir increased settlement funding, including infrastructural development of the occupied territories.
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Buthe won the 1996 election so narrowly that he reluctantly had to rely on the nationalist parties for a stable parliamentary majority.
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Direct interventions in elections motivated by local issues are rare, except in the areas where nationalist parties can have an impact.
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Life is not easy for the government in Madrid when it has to depend on the support of nationalist parties .
sentiment
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According to Western reports, officials in Xinjiang had acknowledged the impact of rising nationalist sentiment across the border in the Soviet Union.
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Many observers are worried that a resurgent interest in local cultures must inevitably lead to xenophobia and ultra-nationalist sentiment .
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Transnational links were shattered by closing frontiers and the tide of nationalist sentiment sweeping through society.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
play the race/nationalist/environmentalist etc card
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It will give the various groups and Tory Members who seek to play the race card the opportunity to do so.
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Mugabe now plays the race card.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Nationalist candidates managed to win only one seat in the elections.
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The newspaper has campaigned vigorously for the nationalist cause.
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The Scottish Nationalist Party wants Scotland to be independent of the UK.
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All but the extreme nationalist opposition is portrayed as traitorous.
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Ceausescu singled out this minority for especially severe treatment in order to emphasise his nationalist credentials.
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In order to ensure the support of the nationalist parties Shamir increased settlement funding, including infrastructural development of the occupied territories.
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In others Communist apparatchiks remade themselves as nationalist autocrats, and stifled democracy in its crib.
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One is nationalist as much as religious.
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The differences of opinion among nationalist leaders added to the problem.
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The point is that he has provided one; and one which even Labour's nationalist wing is little equipped to dispute.
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Third World countries struggled for national independence and did so often under the banner of nationalist socialism.
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Others brought the Third World Marxist rhetoric that was popular at that time among black nationalists .
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The black nationalists were portrayed as well-meaning, earnest ideologues lacking the resources to defeat the establishment.
catholic
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But a key element remained the considerable filial loyalty the catholic nationalists showed towards their clergy, bishops, and Popes.
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The national question as such still remains a central preoccupation for catholic nationalists .
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Any event which celebrated Catholic , nationalist , or republican culture and history was to be opposed.
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The range of tactics used to keep catholic nationalists subordinate was quite comprehensive.
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The ambiguity present in O'Connell has arguably aided catholic nationalists over the years in the justification of their policies.
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Up to the late 1960s, catholic nationalists were split between two main political groupings.
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The outcome of the dominance of both is that historically there have been critical mediations between religion and politics for catholic nationalists .
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Because the opposition is the catholic nationalists , concession means the end of the statelet as such.
extreme
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Most shocking to many commentators was the high youth vote for the extreme nationalists .
strong
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The Schism, we may say, tragically helped to polarise increasingly strong nationalist attitudes towards the war.
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Kossuth in turn endeavoured to create a much stronger popular nationalist alliance of classes on the basis of radical reforms.
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An alternative outcome, but one which may well develop from the first, is the emergence of a strong nationalist dictatorship.
■ NOUN
movement
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Furthermore, it made the emergence of a countrywide nationalist movement possible.
party
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In reality only the major nationalist parties participated.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His father was a nationalist during the civil war.
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Indian nationalists finally won independence for their country in 1947.
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Serbian nationalists
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A prime minister who sought to push an unpopular agreement through was assassinated but a religious nationalist in March 1951.
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He was relatively honest and a sincere nationalist .
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Is Brian Moore a patriot or a nationalist ?
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Overall, these groups include ethnic minorities, ethnic nationalists, indigenous groups, inter-communal contenders, and militant sects.
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The balance of Dungannon, despite two SinnFein gains, remains 11-11 between Unionists and nationalists.
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Then one of her aides came along and must have thought from the name Adams that I was a nationalist .