(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.
Homeland
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Peter King, chairman of the House homeland security committee, said after he was briefed on the investigation that "close to" all 11 of the agents involved had brought women back to their rooms at a hotel separate from the one where Obama is staying.
(2) Millions have been driven out of their homes, seeking shelter in neighbouring countries and in safer parts of their homeland.
(3) The dismissals were prompted by their participation in a racist orgy during what was supposed to be a goodwill trip to the homeland of the club’s billionaire owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
(4) A is for America Vidal described his homeland as the United States of Amnesia.
(5) The author focuses on political and human rights violations, particularly in the Ciskei homeland, in a discussion of the difficulties of blacks in travel, earning a living, farming, and obtaining health care.
(6) Not long before my birth my parents were forced to leave their homeland – my mother from Peros Banhos, my father from Diego Garcia – under orders of their own UK government.
(7) A television link provided questions from Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya, pushing him on why he is not visiting his father's homeland during this tour.
(8) The former military ruler won the key prize of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, but at one point his lead was cut to 500,000 votes after landslide victories for Jonathan in his southern Delta homeland.
(9) I think it takes some serious balls to respond the way I did.” Controversy followed him to his homeland overnight when the Australian former Olympic swimming champion Dawn Fraser said of Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic , who criticised Tennis Australia and was subsequently dropped from the Davis Cup team: “They should be setting a better example for the younger generation of this country, a great country of ours.” “If they don’t like it, go back to where their fathers or their parents came from.
(10) What publicity the chief minister of the western Indian state of Gujarat could attract outside his homeland was only ever condemnatory, and his political career, barely begun, appeared on the verge of oblivion.
(11) Opinion was divided: was it a real day, or a meaningless exercise in flag-waving, with foreign troops still deployed in their homeland?
(12) The department of homeland security has controlled the secret service since 2003, when it took over responsibility from the treasury department.
(13) Burr said that language in the bill would require companies to “remove all personal information before that data is transferred to the federal government”, and that the Department of Homeland Security would scrub any data not cleaned by companies.
(14) Only a handful of local reporters have been permitted to visit the former territories held by the LTTE, who were fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, since the bloody and controversial end to the 26-year civil conflict in May last year.
(15) If he makes the move from NYPD commissioner to Homeland Security secretary, Kelly will carry with him to Washington some very hefty baggage.
(16) The homeland security department (DHS) said on Saturday it would comply with Robart’s order, but the justice department later said it was asking a federal appeals court to set aside the order on Friday by James Robart that temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s travel ban.
(17) State department spokesman John Kirby said on CNN on Thursday that applicants for fiancée visas go through a screening process that includes fingerprinting, a series of background checks and a face-to-face interview while the other future spouse in the US is checked by homeland security.
(18) The attacks on the Pentagon's computer system were described by Dr Sandra Bell, head of Rusi's homeland security department, as "very much a wake-up call".
(19) To Mogulof, Mayer almost believed she could charm the Nazis the way she had once-hypnotized her homeland: The ability to endure suffering while showing a serene and confident face came from years of managing a celebrity status.
(20) They are not going to be cowed by what the government has to say.” Siewert said the Barnett government appeared to have been shocked by the breadth and depth of opposition to the policy, fanned by the prime minister Tony Abbott, describing living in a remote community on Aboriginal homelands as a “lifestyle choice”, and was “casting about to see what will receive the least opposition”.