western nation

collocation in English

meaningsofwesternandnation

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western
adjective
uk
/ˈwes.tən/us
/ˈwes.tɚn/
in or from the west of ...
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nation
noun
uk
/ˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˈneɪ.ʃən/
a country, especially when thought of as a large group of people living in one area with their own government, language, ...
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(Definition ofwesternandnationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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And, in fact, in nowesternnationwith national health insurance did physicians unreservedly welcome the extension of government control.
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Solving that dilemma is a key issue facing everywesternnationincluding our own.
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They recognise, too, that the grants and support for students in this country are better than in any otherwesternnation.
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That the devastation is perpetuated by a supposedlywesternnationis unfathomable.
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Virtually everywesternnationintroduced rent control as a wartime measure, but that control yielded pots of gold for successive generations of politicians after the first world war.
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Western nations are quietly supporting private security groups which help to further their own political goals.
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In line with neo-liberalism, the state's commitment to provide for 'retirees ' is being re-examined in several western nations.
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While mortality and morbidity outcomes for women and their babies in western nations steadily declined medical care retained its status.
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Western nations began imposing conditionalities based on standards of good governance and human rights on the part of former client states.
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Making western nations the model ignored the possibility of different paths to development, thereby devaluing the history and tradition of those concerned.
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The nation had to establish and consolidate itself, to expand its territorial boundaries and to negotiate its role among the older and more powerful western nations.
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These standards compare more than favourably with those used in other advanced western nations.
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When the western nations were faced with the pressure of war, the intensity of our relationship was recognised virtually by all.
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That is a country to which the western nations send aid.
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That means human suffering, which western nations have taken some action to try to alleviate.
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Thirdly, in this country we do not face the dramatic demographic change that is in prospect for some other advanced western nations.
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We are unique among western nations in that respect.
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But that is not done by the western nations, which is part of the trouble.
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These and other moves will bring the newly independent republics within the family of western nations, and are welcome.
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We for our part believe that only the western nations can deliver the results in the first instance that we would all like to see.
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