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. 

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

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

Students who had come to the nation's capitol.    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

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

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

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

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

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

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