(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.
Motherland
Definition:
(n.) The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vladimir Putin painted a colourful picture of Russia's protesters on Thursday, describing them as agents of the west, attending useless demonstrations with condoms pinned to their chests as they sought the downfall of the motherland.
(2) This [India] is my motherland and I'd like to have an impact."
(3) Putin also granted a medal for “services to the motherland” to a man British police say poisoned former security services agent Alexander Litvinenko.
(4) He offers a simple, well-honed defence to convince both himself and his interrogators of his innocence: "I made it to protect the motherland.
(5) Afterwards, in a sign that she has not yet lost her caustic side, Sobchak wrote in her Tatler column: "Bozhena equally suffers for the fate of her motherland as for the fate of her fur coats."
(6) This is the fucking motherland,” a middle-aged member of the crowd, who gave his name as CL Fu, told Reuters.
(7) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
(8) The moving occasion of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland … like a long-separated child coming back to the warm embrace of his mother, is still vivid in our memory,” Xi told a dinner on Friday night.
(9) A few in the youthful crowd bore pictures of Mao Zedong and banners and placards ranged from the provocative — "For the respect of the motherland, we must go to war with Japan" — to the more polite: "Behave yourself, Japanese!"
(10) Nor are Russia's filthy rich too patriotic about the motherland.
(11) Beijing loyalists in Hong Kong’s legislature will say, ‘We need to protect the integrity of the motherland, you’re not allowed to say things like ‘Hong Kong is not China.’’ They worry these sentiments will spread to places like Tibet and Xinjiang, western Chinese provinces with large populations of ethnic minorities and a history of chafing under Beijing’s yoke.
(12) The 70-year-old said he was " deeply troubled by a feeling of great unease that our beloved motherland is losing its sense of direction , and that we are allowing ourselves to progress towards a costly disaster of a protracted and endemic general crisis".
(13) "We came back to our motherland and we will not leave again.
(14) A lmost before they had cleared up the vodka bottles in Lenin Square, scene of the party to celebrate Crimea's reunification with the motherland in Moscow , the well-planned moves kicked into place.
(15) The movement saw black communities in the US as a colony in the motherland; the struggle against US imperialism was central from its inception.
(16) But the Russian people have rallied around their leader Vladimir Putin … Long live our great motherland Russia!
(17) The Crimean peninsula is predominantly Russian-speaking, and despite splitting away from their eastern neighbour 60 years ago, many in the region still look longingly over the border to what they see as their motherland.
(18) We will stand as one, united in the cause of protecting our motherland's integrity."
(19) Suharto, with tens of thousands of others from the disbanded force, joined Peta, the Volunteer Army of Defenders of the Motherland, whose explicit aim was to help Japan defend Indonesia against invasion by the western allies.
(20) Eventually, the police decided to drop the charges, and five women including Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina pulled on brightly coloured balaclavas and ran down the steps, singing: 'Putin will teach you to love the motherland'.