By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.    From LearnThat.org.  [Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman.]

The Shawnee nation.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Students who had come to the nation's capitol.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The news was announced to the nation.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A statement that sums up the nation's mood.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

She did not use the term nation-building, but it started at such a low point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taegan Goddard's Political Wire] Reference

Think about where this nation is and where it should go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hal Donahue: "Capitalists" Didn't Build America; We Did] Reference

However that may be, the nation is about to rise as one man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference

The right wing in this nation is the standard for race hatred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Palin: With his ‘chalkboard technique,’ Glenn Beck is ‘changing our country.’] Reference

Every day we are told this nation is an autonomous, sovereign one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quebec Old and New] Reference

Italy, also, has never been a nation is the same sense as has France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada's Impact on World Affairs] Reference

Such is the mighty and mysterious thing which we call a nation's soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War] Reference

That which makes the show of a nation is the powers and the multitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference

The magazine did a feature on M&T Bank, one of what it calls the nation's best.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

A massacre of a village by an armed force of a nation is also known as a war crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Yoo: Congress Cannot Stop the President From Using Nukes] Reference

Such are the essential characteristics of what we term a nation at the present day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference

On Monday, O'Casey's Tavern in New York introduced what it calls the nation's first.    From Wordnik.com.  [WBBH - News] Reference

The accelerated corporate pillaging of what's left of our nation is all too evident.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvey Wasserman: Legal Pot or Bust!] Reference

And it doesn't look like something that most of the nation is at all understanding of.    From Wordnik.com.  [La. Looks To New Plan To Restore Fragile Coast] Reference

Owner Paul Hurley today is unveiling what he calls the nation's first 100-proof turkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [KKTV - HomePage - Headlines] Reference

On the other hand in International Law the word nation is used to denote a sovereign state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canadians in the United States] Reference

The defence of the nation is the primary mission of the Canadian Forces, and will remain so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Your Children Should Enlist in the Canadian Armed Forces] Reference

It does not mean the belief that the morality of a nation is the same thing as their strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs of the Fleet] Reference

Some of the best deer hunting in the nation is there and remember, not to tell anyone about it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007: A Look Back in Anger] Reference

But once again this nation is the most religiuosly tolerant and non subjective nation in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are we a Christian Nation?] Reference

Sounds to me like the only thing you love about this nation is the mythology that surrounds its birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Views Divide Southern Republican Leadership Conference] Reference

Another ground of courage is, that the nation is a unit against rebellion to-day as it never was before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memorial Sermons] Reference

The rationale could be that because the nation is at war it needs every ready, willing and able servicemember.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama is right on don't ask don't tell] Reference

Also, John McCain kicking off a series of new proposals to deal with what he calls the nation's energy crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008] Reference

Where I think the greatest asset of my nation is an excellent religious tolerance, but which is a long day one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transcript: Sali Berisha] Reference

The existence of a nation is a daily plebiscite, just as individual existence is a perpetual affirmation of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reflections on Canada Day] Reference

As the normal state of two-thirds of the nation is an avidity for power and money, their moral state may be conceived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference

Earlier this month, it awarded what it called the nation's first competitively bid leases for offshore wind exploration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handicapping the Environmental Gold Rush] Reference

U.S. Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. wants to end what he calls the nation's "anchor baby situation" - and he's willing to amend the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [News for Charlottesville Daily Progress] Reference