(adv.) A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.
(adv.) Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
(adv.) The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.
(adv.) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
(adv.) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.
(adv.) The rock through which a vein runs.
(a.) Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.
(a.) Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.
(a.) Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) In some other countries the patient-to-nurse ratio was significantly smaller.
(3) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(4) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(5) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(6) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(7) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(8) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(9) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(10) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(11) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(12) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(13) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(14) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(15) In differing, incomparable ways it will affect every society, industry and region in the country.
(16) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(17) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(18) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
(19) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(20) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
Fatherland
Definition:
(n.) One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
Example Sentences:
(1) That theory, however, is not supported by the evidence that is available to me.” Putin's disturbing message for the west: your rules don't apply Read more Though he concedes it is not in itself proof of agency, Owen notes that in the years since 2006, “the Russian state in general, and President Putin in particular”, have bestowed particular favour on Lugovoi, including giving him a medal for “services to the fatherland” while the inquiry was happening last year.
(2) The obsession of "For Fatherland and Freedom" to pay public homage to the Latvian-SS Legion in contradiction to all historical logic and sensitivity to Nazi crimes is not a product of ostensibly harmless nostalgia as Pickles would have us believe, but part of a rather insidious plan to gain recognition for a perversely distorted version of European history which will officially equate Communism with Nazism.
(3) This became Fatherland , for which the hardback rights went for £500,000, and the paperback for more than £1m.
(4) Outside parliament on Saturday coat hangers, brandished by protesters as symbols of the crude tools used for backstreet abortions, were interspersed with red-painted placards proclaiming “My womb, not the fatherland’s” but also broader messages, such as “Make love not PiS”.
(5) He wrote on Twitter that the storming of the Fatherland offices was "utterly unacceptable in European society".
(6) It is true I have not been killed or crippled, been a loser in the stocks, or had to forswear my fatherland, but I have not quite gone free and have a right to say something."
(7) For the fatherland, fight!” - a bit steeped in warfare and the glory of battle.
(8) Kaminski's Law and Justice party is the second biggest national grouping in the caucus after the Conservatives, while Zile is the sole member from the For Fatherland and Freedom party.
(9) It all sounds so similar to the fascist slogans of the 1930s, when posters on the walls incited women to give more children to the fatherland.
(10) Activists from Fatherland, the political party of the jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, said their offices had been stormed by armed men.
(11) Even the most devoted fan found 1981’s Looks & Smiles painfully miserable, and Loach says he made a mess of the only other film he made in the 80s, Fatherland .
(12) Miliband's powerful point, lest it be forgotten, was that the Conservatives had allied themselves with some pretty awful characters on Europe's far right – Poland's Michal Kaminski among them – including For Fatherland and Freedom, a Latvian party that has participated in an annual event commemorating the Latvian Waffen SS, the Lettish legion.
(13) They normally see only the showcase buildings - the Victorious Fatherland Liberation war museum, the palace commemorating the Kims' juche philosophy of self-reliance, the computer labs at Kim Il-sung University, filled with people that the minders insist are everyday North Koreans.
(14) Over the years Efraim Zuroff has made a number of biased statements about the Latvian Legion of the Waffen-SS, but I am afraid I simply cannot accept his view that the LNNK – the Fatherland and Freedom party – in any way honours Nazi crimes or encourages the revision of European history.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Miranda Richardson and Rutger Hauer in the 1994 film version of Fatherland.
(16) Poland’s prime minister, Beata Szydło, said the senators – who included the former Republican presidential contender John McCain – had no right to be lecturing and “imposing actions concerning my fatherland”.
(17) Even worse, the Conservatives are in a European alliance with Latvia's notorious rightwing nationalistic and homophobic Fatherland and Freedom party .
(18) Among my most moving memories is the vast crowd in front of the historic monastery of Częstochowa greeting Pope John Paul II in 1983, and singing the old patriotic hymn Return to Us, O Lord, a Free Fatherland.
(19) But the Fatherland and Freedom party is in the coalition government.
(20) More recently, a succession of novels, including Robert Harris's Fatherland, Resistance by Owen Sheers and CJ Sansom's Dominion – which imagines a Vichy Britain in 1952 ruled by Lord Beaverbrook and Oswald Mosley – have explored the same theme.