nations

“The nations” is the common expression in the Old Testament for non-Jews as a group, and a Gentile is a person belonging to “the nations.

Gentile 2002

The law of nature applied to nations or states as moral persons, is called the _natural law of nations_.

The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. Andrew W. Young

It is also called the _necessary law of nations_, because nations are morally bound to observe it; and sometimes the _internal law of nations_, from its being binding on the conscience.

The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. Andrew W. Young

The _customary law of nations_ consists of certain maxims, or is founded on customs and usages which have been long observed and tacitly consented to by nations, and have thereby become binding upon all who have adopted them, so far as their observance does not require a violation of the law of nature.

The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. Andrew W. Young

A resolution was carried unanimously demanding amongst other things a just and lasting peace which would prevent the outbreak of fresh conflagrations and assure liberty to all nations in Europe, and "_self-determination for all nations_, including also that branch of the Czecho-Slovak nation which lives in Hungary."

Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty Vladim��r Nosek 1929

"As to the willingness or ability of neutral nations to resist the Decrees of France, his Majesty has always professed ... _a disposition to relax or modify his measures of retaliation and self-defence in proportion as those of neutral, nations_ should come in aid of them and take their place."

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 1877

_all_ the nations of the world as equally involved in the vast spiritual interests at stake, we should have no difficulty in understanding how possible and natural it was for Jeremiah to hear his mission _to the nations_ clearly indicated in the very moment of his call.

Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 George Adam Smith 1899

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She singled out China and Syria as examples of what she called nations whose Internet restrictions would eventually boomerang.

Clinton calls for 'serious conversation' about Internet freedom Mary Beth Sheridan 2011

She singled out China and Syria as examples of what she called nations whose Internet restrictions would eventually boomerang.

Clinton calls for 'serious conversation' about Internet freedom Mary Beth Sheridan 2011