Examples of nationalist in a Sentence

Noun a staunch nationalist who favored any policy that would give the country more power in the international arena Adjective The country's Nationalist Party won the election. a nationalist rant against the immigrants supposedly flooding the country

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Critics fear a threat to democracy under Le Pen, a nationalist who is cozy with Hungary’s autocratic prime minister, Viktor Orban, and anti-immigrant far-right parties elsewhere in Europe. — Elaine Ganley, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2022 Critics fear a threat to democracy under Le Pen, a nationalist who is cozy with Hungary’s autocratic prime minister, Viktor Orban, and anti-immigrant far-right parties elsewhere in Europe. — Elaine Ganley, ajc, 22 Apr. 2022 The yield on France’s 10-year bonds rose to a seven-year high last week on concerns at the prospect of a nationalist with longstanding sympathies for Russia taking power in the middle of the Ukraine war. — Fortune, 10 Apr. 2022 Following this logic to its conclusion, the Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose escaped British house arrest in Bengal and fled to Hitler’s Germany. — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022 Early on, Maréchal established a reputation not only as a nationalist but also as a Catholic. — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022 Harris' meeting with the hard-right nationalist may make for an awkward diplomatic moment, given that the US has rejected Poland's offer to supply the jets -- which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been asking for. — Maegan Vazquez, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022 The reality is that Putin’s image of a conservative restorer is a political narrative in the same way former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic reinvented himself from a communist apparatchik to a firebrand Serbian nationalist. — Joseph S. Laughon, National Review, 2 Mar. 2022 And to him, as a great-power nationalist, that really means a world without a powerful Russia. — Tarik Cyril Amar, Time, 4 Mar. 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective The staying power of populist and nationalist groups across Europe has shown that these forces don’t necessarily need to win elections in order to see their aims through. — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2022 Such rhetoric, though, has done little to assuage his nationalist base. — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022 He was also expected to win re-election after rallying his nationalist and pro-Russian base by refusing to join the European Union in imposing sanctions on Russia. — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022 Mass right-wing movements buoyed by a populist or nationalist mentality do sporadically appear in the U.S., but the ideals of classical republicanism linger in both American hearts and foundational documents, like the U.S. Constitution. — WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022 But so far, this has proven to be a thorny question for the nationalist government in Warsaw. — Hanna Kozlowska, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2022 But one person could greatly complicate the EU's plan: Hungary’s far-right nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who swept to victory in elections on Sunday, clinching his fourth term in office. — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2022 Hungary's hard-line nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared victory in the country's Sunday elections after a partial vote count showed his right-wing party with a significant lead. — Harold Maass, The Week, 4 Apr. 2022 The Hindi-language film has been given a tax break and is being heavily championed by the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has been urging people to go watch it. — Debasish Roy Chowdhury, Time, 30 Mar. 2022 See More

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