How to Use nation-state in a Sentence
nation-state
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Even for a Greek city-state — so different in scale from today’s nation-states — the very end of the realm seemed to contain its origins.
— Kanishk Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023 -
But Cozy Bear has actually been one of the most active nation-state groups since at least 2010.
— Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024 -
The example does not have to be a nation-state for this argument to work; the key thing is the competition.
— Eliot Bush, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2023 -
But in a world of nation-state attackers and the kind of content being secured, the risk—at some point—will become real.
— Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024 -
In one instance, the trio assisted in stopping a nation-state hacking group.
— IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023 -
APTs are typically very crafty and sponsored by a nation-state.
— Catherine Stupp, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2023 -
This is an excellent tool for nation-state actors and criminals alike who will be on a bonanza in the short term.
— Davey Winder, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023 -
In 1948 the most devout of the Jewish surveyors in the Promised Land regarded the mere suggestion of a nation-state as blasphemy.
— Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024 -
Hamas is, at best, a hybrid — a militant group that governs a territory that is not a nation-state.
— Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023 -
Those involved in discussions around sovereignty, or the right of a nation-state to govern itself, spoke to NBC News to underscore that the issue has undeniable context to the fires.
— Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023 -
His elevation to the senior role, experts say, shows how small the pool of skilled nation-state hackers is likely to be and demonstrates Serebriakov’s value to Russia.
— Matt Burgess, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023 -
Most nation-states are deeply concerned with questions about ethnic coherence.
— Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023 -
On rare but horrific occasions, that enemy was capable of projecting force on the scale of a nation-state.
— Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024 -
SolarWinds was a hack that was carried out by the Russian nation-state actor Nobelium, Microsoft said in 2021.
— Luke Barr, ABC News, 12 July 2023 -
Before the German nation-state even existed, Friedrich was a hard-core nationalist.
— Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024 -
Finally, in November of 1947 the United Nations voted to create two nation-states, recognizing that more than one people have claim to the same land.
— Scott Meltzer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023 -
In the past, Christianity was the source of common identity across Europe, even amongst its burgeoning and often warring nation-states.
— Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023 -
There are age-old customs, social mores and privations, as well as conflict with nation-state ideology.
— The Week Uk, theweek, 19 July 2024 -
Meeting the challenge, not only with respect to the Southern border but meeting the challenge of the cyber threat from cyber criminals and adverse foreign nation-states.
— Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 15 May 2023 -
Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state.
— Richard Collett, CNN, 8 June 2023 -
There is no doubt that some humans, societies, institutions and nation-states have driven far more change than others, and that the benefits and costs of change have been and are unevenly distributed.
— Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024 -
Both nation-states and private companies, which are underregulated and now own most of the satellites in orbit, are gearing up to compete for resources and research sites.
— Patrick Lin, Professor Of Philosophy, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2024 -
While some officials maintain that the operation was complex and could have been carried out only by a nation-state, others cite the shallow depth of the pipelines to point to the possibility of non-state actors.
— Niha Masih, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023 -
But because these attacks happen in cyberspace, the battlefield is less tangible, and nation-state attacks blend in with service outages like AT&T’s, which turned out to be a software update gone awry and not a cyberattack.
— Eric Noonan, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024 -
There is one fix that would help on all three fronts: an Israeli government prepared to begin the process of building two nation-states for two people with a Palestinian Authority that is truly ready and willing to transform itself.
— Thomas L. Friedman, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024 -
Over the next century, sections of what would become the modern nation-state of Nigeria were consolidated into protectorates.
— Tausif Noor, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023 -
Given the oil exports from the area, coupled with access to the Mediterranean Sea, Africa and Asia, its strategic location brings threats by criminals, as well as illicit nation-state actors that endanger worldwide shipping.
— Donald J. Mihalek, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2023 -
Two new reports out this week show that nation-states are also likely rushing to adapt the same technology into weapons of misinformation, in what could become a troubling AI arms race between great powers.
— Will Knight, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023 -
In the universe of Dune, every noble house has a nuclear arsenal (since these great families have essentially taken the place of nation-states) but are forbidden from using them against each other.
— Christian Holub, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2024 -
Snake is developed and operated by Turla, one of the world's most sophisticated APTs, short for advanced persistent threats, a term for long-running hacking outfits sponsored by nation-states.
— Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 May 2023
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