Some articles on national:
... The German musician Nico sometimes performed the national anthem at concerts and dedicated it to militant Andreas Baader, leader of the Red Army Faction ... which contains fourteen songs with adaptations of national anthems ... In a subsequent television interview German national coach Rainer Kiessler said that he was appalled and could not accept what had happened ...
... Instead of October 3, the National Reunification should be celebrated on the first Sunday of October ... would be seen as a provocation and devaluing the national holiday ... would have meant that it would sometimes fall on 7 October, which happens to have been the national day of East Germany this date would thus have been seen as commemorating the division ...
... has become a four brigade combat team division with National Guardsmen from throughout the Pacific/Western United States and Oceania ... War I as a depot division, it was reorganised as the National Guard division for California, Nevada, and Utah, before seeing service in the Pacific Theatre of World War II ... The division was redesignated the National Guard unit for California alone, and it continues to serve domestically as such, mostly in homeland security operations ...
1848, is a poem by the Slovene Romantic poet France Prešeren, considered the national poet of Slovenes ... On 27 September 1989, it became the national anthem of Slovenia ... a promotion of the idea of a united Slovenia, which the March Revolution in 1848 elevated into a national political programme ...
... These national bodies are the rule-making body for that nation ... For example the British Orienteering Federation is the national governing body for the United Kingdom ...
More definitions of "national":
- (adj): Of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country.
Example: "National hero"; "national anthem"; "a national landmark"
- (adj): Characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation.
Example: "A national trait"
- (adj): Of or relating to nationality.
Example: "National origin"
- (adj): Limited to or in the interests of a particular nation.
Example: "National interests"; "isolationism is a strictly national policy"
- (adj): Concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country.
Example: "The national government"; "national elections"; "of national concern"; "the national highway system"; "national forests"
- (noun): A person who owes allegiance to that nation.
Synonyms: subject
- (adj): Owned or maintained for the public by the national government.
Example: "National parks"
Famous quotes containing the word national:
“I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life ... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“Maybe it’s understandable what a history of failures America’s foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America’s miniature schnauzer—a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.”
—Howard Barker (b. 1946)