But this is not a nation-state that we're fighting.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2004] Reference

Our enemies have no capital or nation-state to defend.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2004] Reference

The days of the all-powerful nation-state are long gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off The Couch] Reference

Is Afghanistan capable of being a coherent nation-state?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2009] Reference

With -- it was a nation-state with hegemonistic impulses.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2001] Reference

Can Afghanistan, with our help, be a coherent nation-state?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2009] Reference

And so, to a large extent, they turn towards their nation-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2009] Reference

A nation-state has to be based on zero tolerance for something like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saeb Erekat] Reference

Accomplishing that won't require creating a modern, cohesive nation-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Things We Need to Do Now] Reference

That had been Flenser's greatest gamble: to flense an entire nation-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

I think that future diplomacy will not just be nation-state to nation-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 9, 2002] Reference

Woodcarver's little settlement had grown into a city and now a nation-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

Practical considerations do not allow every nation to have its own nation-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israel Is Not America's Greatest Ally] Reference

In the next century, Kennedy says, the nation-state will slide into irrelevance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through A Glass, Very Darkly] Reference

The ideological motive for this is the belief that the nation-state is dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [European Fudging] Reference

Second, we feel that the United States as a nation-state is basically unsustainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2007] Reference

The depth and extent of its religious diversity are unparalleled by any other nation-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exploring The Beast Within] Reference

It also means it's not exclusively limited, because of its sophistication, to a nation-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2001] Reference

The nation-state, I tell you, is in such -- we have to recognize we're in unchartered territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2008] Reference

Only the rise of the modern nation-state exacerbated long-standing and hitherto dormant tensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference

France lost many men, much wealth, its extensive empire, and its rank as a dominant nation-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

France suffered extensive losses in its empire, wealth, manpower, and rank as a dominant nation-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

In fact, we would still be a large and powerful nation-state with a host of internal and external problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chalmers Johnson: The Guns of August: Lowering the Flag on the American Century] Reference

First, with Pakistan, here is an example of a country, a potentially failed nation-state with nuclear weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2008] Reference

He ran EDS like an authoritarian nation-state and alienated many Texans with hardball attempts at education reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maverick's Playground] Reference

A whole bunch of new countries in there from Central Europe who are really interested in strengthening their nation-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2005] Reference

Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the regional states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Croatians in Herzegovina, the other half of Bosnia and Herzegovina, consider themselves Croats marooned in the wrong nation-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [BALKANS TRAGEDY] Reference

Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the regional states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Rhesos had been defeated and driven back to his capital, and the eastern rebels had declared their own nation-state under a new king.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shield of Thunder]

But I think what's going to happen is here is you're going to see a grab for power to control the nation-state of Iraq as it stands now.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2003] Reference

The sense that politicians were losing power to the market fed into a second theme of Davos 2000: the supposed decline of the nation-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing To The Crowd] Reference

The United Commonwealth was the most powerful nation-state in the history of mankind, the more so because it did not know its own strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference