Example sentences of "sense [prep] national " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the non-legal aspect of citizenship is also vital , and appropriate institutional and procedural arrangements need to be developed that will promote the practice of citizenship and harness senses of national community , social cohesion and ‘ civic virtue ’ to the benefit of both the state and the community of citizens . |
| 2 | The ‘ winter of discontent ’ thus encouraged a wider sense of national enfeeblement and decline . |
| 3 | To complete unity it needs not just a flow of money from west to east but a sense of national solidarity . |
| 4 | This was in large part a result of the war effort which had stimulated a sense of national pride in ‘ Britishness ’ and had produced cooperation within communities , locally , in towns , in neighbourhoods and at work . |
| 5 | These movements can cause real problems from the point of view of the sense of national identity and citizenship of the migrants and for their relationships with the indigenous populations . |
| 6 | The sense of national community is indeed crucial to citizenship . |
| 7 | Some politicians have been extraordinarily insensitive to the complexities of the issues involved in fostering a sense of national community . |
| 8 | The sense of national community is not helped by exhortations to cheer for England in Test Matches and the implication that those who do not are in some sense not good British citizens , and yet this sort of crude and simplistic interpretation of the obligations of citizenship was heard from some politicians in 1990 . |
| 9 | They would devolve power to national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and to regional assemblies in England , and their hope is that this would promote a sense of national and regional identity while preserving the United Kingdom and a sense of belonging to a British community . |
| 10 | Nor is a duty to promote a sense of national identity and social cohesion universally acknowledged . |
| 11 | The most problematic aspects of a modern concept of citizenship is the need to promote the sense of national identity or in some way to secure that citizens experience a sense of belonging to the state and the state belonging to them . |
| 12 | Sadler had articulated the political sentiment in his Manchester inquiry when he remarked on how education was but one aspect of ‘ a many sided problem ’ , and as such it necessitated both the development of individuality and personal conviction and ‘ a sense of national duty and obligation towards the State ’ , which could only come through ‘ better and more systematic training for the duties of citizenship and for home-making and family claims ’ . |
| 13 | Foremost of these was the maintenance and strengthening of a sense of national unity with its implications for language and the content of history and geography syllabuses . |
| 14 | But it was an option chosen and sustained by the Queen herself , her government and her people , and the power of such a symbol produced a great flowering of culture and a sense of national identity that has perhaps not been surpassed since . |
| 15 | The older , rusticated students were moved by appeals to their sense of national duty ( as well as by threats ) , while the younger students wished to revive anti-Japanese feeling because of what they perceived as the ‘ second Japanese invasion ’ . |
| 16 | Especially important were the growing certainties of liberal political economy and the theme of antislavery as expressing the national interest and , as an important moral component , the sense of national duty the British people owed the world and themselves . |
| 17 | The inauguration of President Roosevelt and the beginning of the New Deal created a new sense of national purpose and encouraged institutions and agencies to rethink their public role , and however bad things were there was at least evidence that movie-going was surviving as a social activity . |
| 18 | Since Warnock , some sense of national direction has been given by the work of a number of agencies , not least Her Majesty 's Inspectorate , which has played a very important role , instilling confidence in college staff and promoting good quality provision . |
| 19 | Like the Swiss , they combine a strong sense of national identity with a cheerful willingness to live and work outside the homeland . |
| 20 | They have a highly developed sense of national identity but almost no sense of responsibility towards the state they live in . |
| 21 | Broadcasters should ‘ recognise their special relationship to the sense of national identity and community ’ , should be distanced from all vested interests , particularly the government , and should be ‘ liberated rather than restricted ’ by the public guidelines for broadcasting . |
| 22 | Acquaintance with social progress in the West highlighted what V. G. Belinsky ( 1811–48 ) , the foremost literary critic of the 1840s , called ‘ cursed Russian reality ’ , and added a sense of national humiliation to their indignation . |
| 23 | In the late Middle Ages , symbolism was widely used to express a feeling of belonging to a people ; likewise institutions , such as monarchy , played an important part in creating a sense of national identity ; while the writing of history was deliberately fostered to encourage a feeling which the single word ‘ roots ’ will convey to a twentieth-century reader . |
| 24 | Chinese students have been urged by Jiang to have ‘ a sense of national pride , national integrity and self- confidence ’ . |
| 25 | Japan was both militarily and economically vulnerable and the lack of outside support for her resistance to great power domination reinforced a sense of national isolation which originated in national myth , grew in the seclusion period and was strengthened by an awareness of the cultural divide between Japan and the West . |
| 26 | For a while it proved a highly successful combination , but eventually it became apparent that the Japanese spirit could not compensate for inferiority in industrial strength and natural resources in dispelling any sense of national insecurity . |
| 27 | But I do not think they will believe it necessary to dilute our sense of national identity in order to play a full-hearted role in Europe . |
| 28 | This emphasis upon a common style is partly connected with that sense of national identity and community which the war provoked , but it was also intimately related to Eliot 's preoccupation with what he termed " The Social Function of Poetry " in both developing the language , and enriching the sensibility , of the culture . |
| 29 | The Boer War brought the first murmurs of coalitionism , a sense of national crisis brought the first attempt to form a coalition , and the advent of the First World War made it a practical possibility . |
| 30 | In fact , it was only as a consequence of this earlier work of literary , linguistic , and historical categorizing that it became possible for a sense of national and vernacular " ancestry " to challenge the cultural and educational rule of the classical languages and literatures . |