fatherland

How To Use fatherland In A Sentence

• The great majority of the foreigners regarded America as a new and better fatherland.
• The original word Rusini is derived from Rus, the abstract word for Russian fatherland or dwelling-place of the Slavic people; and the English word "Russian" may therefore mean a derivative from the word Rus, as denominating the race, or it may mean a subject of the Russian Empire. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
• It may well be doubted, on an impartial view, if the mutilation of the country's industrial system by such measures of isolation does not after all rather weaken the nation even for warlike ends; but then, the discretionary authorities in the dynastic States are always, and it may be presumed necessarily, hampered with obsolete theories handed down from that cameralistic age, when the little princes of the Fatherland were making dynastic history. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
• But the political row is far more than a linguistic challenge about expressing love for the fatherland without using the forbidden phrase.
• They shed their blood lyrically for the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive of the fatherland, with Lacedaemonian enthusiasm. Les Miserables
• The Fatherland Party was lavishly financed by Rhineland industrialists, but it was no mere front for the ruling classes.
• The party is made an equivalent of the nation, and loyalty to the fatherland is transferred to the party.
• They were willing to serve the fatherland in its hour of need.
• This, however, was balanced by another new article stressing the importance of the ‘Defence of the Socialist Fatherland’.
• They were willing to serve the fatherland in its hour of need.