(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.