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national

If something is national it affects a whole nation or country. If something is national it has to do with a certain nation or country, or with people from that country. If a business is national it is found in all or most parts of a nation or country.

national

A national is someone who is a citizen of their nation. The nationals is a tournament where people from all over the country come to compete in.

national

of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country national hero national anthem a national landmark limited to or in the interests of a particular nation national interests isolationism is a strictly national policy concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country the national government national elections of national concern the national highway system national forests owned or maintained for the public by the national government national parks (= home, interior, internal) inside the country the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior the nation's internal politics (= subject) a person who owes allegiance to that nation a monarch has a duty to his subjects characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation a national trait of or relating to nationality national origin

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Simple sentences

The French government has launched an online game that challenges taxpayers to balance the national budget.
The concert concluded with the national anthem.
The rose is the national flower of this country.
Every country has its national flag.
People, goods and money are all free to move across national borders in the region.
Gross national product is a nation's total output of goods and services as measured in monetary value.
The national flag of the USA is called the Stars and Stripes.
We put up the flags on national holidays.
Japan's national budget for a new fiscal year is normally compiled in December.
The program will finish with the national anthem.
They regarded him as a national hero.
Today is a national holiday.
Spain has won the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the national team logo gains the first star.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
The gross national product of our country is the second largest.
This national park is full of beautiful scenery.
The national health service was far from adequate.
A considerable amount of money was appropriated for the national defense.
I think his death is a national loss.
He became a national hero.
Hunting is banned in national parks.
The national debt is growing.

Movie subtitles

Like the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone national park.
Except for Caitlyn, who is a national hero.
We're talking about national TV just to see your man shoot the rock.
Agent Malik, you want to tell me why the director of national intelligence is calling?
Oh, uh, I did stop by the national archives just to maybe book a field trip for the kids.
Picked him up outside the national archives.
His wife -- and first national bank.
Ensanguined national assets of the country, buried treasures sealed by a mystery and shrouded in legend lay in the Ukrainian land for ages.
The national anthem, Your Majesty.
The national anthem?
Allow me, I order the national anthem to be remade to a merry tune.
This is the national station broadcasting this evening's news.
Around you stand the flags and standards of this National Socialism.
All our work must be dictated by a single thought. that the German worker. be made an upright, proud and equally entitled national comrade.
What's the capital of the Chase National Bank?
Union National Bank.
Did you hear what happened over at the Union National Bank?
I thought the Union National was pretty solid.
I always said the Union National was a phoney bank.
Union National?
That's the end of the Union National Bank.
Is there something wrong with Union National Bank?
Jack, go to the Union National Bank and take your money out.
Union National is sunk.
Union National's broke.
Can't you just not care about the national affairs and just support your own country?
Call off the lawsuit against them, and the problems of national security must all be handled following their method.
You wanna tell me why the director of National intelligence is calling?
Oh, I did stop by the National Archives, just to maybe book a field trip for the kids.
Yesterday you had a customer, picked him up outside the National Archives.
Shot with the help of the Romanian Army and the artists of the Bucharest National Theatre.
When the clock on the wall strikes ten, all you loyal ladies and you patriotic men, let's sing the national anthem when the clock on the wall strikes ten.
I'm from the National Studios in Hollywood.
Be at the National Studios at 7:00 tomorrow morning.
I can say that, clearly, the basis of the National Socialist State. is the Nationalist Socialist Law Code.
These Reich laws can assure you, National Comrades. that your life and existence is safe in this National Socialist State of Order, Freedom and Law.

News and current affairs

The rise of right-wing populism reflects revived yearnings for pure national communities that keep immigrants and minorities out.
For although Crown Prince Abdullah has his own loyal entourage, including the National Guard, he confronts opposition from senior figures in the religious establishment.
By putting paid to any revanchist tendencies in Russia concerning the Baltics, Europe is made a safer place, and Russia is helped in its effort to redefine itself as a national state and not an empire.
An independent expert panel would review the national plans to verify their scientific and managerial coherence.
Afterward, each national program would be monitored, audited, and evaluated.
There is, however, a danger that it will have an adverse affect on the necessary national discussion about race.
Ten of 21 branches of Dutch agribusiness, including horticultural seeds, ornamentals, seed potatoes, and veal, are among the top contributors to the national economy and the country's trade balance.
The Bush Administration, not to be left behind, has shown how public accounting rules can be bent so as to provide a misleading picture of what is really happening in a national economy.
These are national funds that, in boom years, receive revenues from sales of natural resources to be set aside against a rainy day.
The bad news is that it has become increasingly clear that, at least for large countries, currency areas will be highly unstable unless they follow national borders.
It should give member states the chance to develop an approach to Europe that suits their national traditions, within the EU framework.
Donors should structure aid to ensure that it supports sound national development policies and programs, rather than their own narrow interests.
CAMBRIDGE - Should more countries create independent fiscal advisory councils to infuse greater objectivity into national budget debates?
Success in peacefully removing a tyrant has set in motion a process of national renewal.
National supervisors always tend to minimize problems at home.
Given national supervisors' predictable tendency not to recognize problems at home, it seemed natural that the cost of cleaning up insolvent banks should also be borne at the national level.
It thus seemed to make sense that even in the eurozone, banking supervision remained largely national.
The recently created European Banking Authority has only limited powers over national supervisors, whose daily work is guided mainly by national considerations.
Problems might originate at the national level, but, owing to monetary union, they quickly threaten the stability of the entire eurozone banking system.
But, while putting the ECB in charge of banking supervision solves one problem, it creates another: can national authorities still be held responsible for saving banks that they no longer supervise?
What of Nobel Prize winner Robert Mundell's famous 1961 conjecture that national and currency borders need not significantly overlap?
For a normal country, the national income-tax system constitutes a huge automatic stabilizer across regions.
European countries have become so interconnected that isolated national measures on issues like financial-market regulation are hopeless.
Surveys promoted by financial firms tend to show that trust in them has not diminished much, and that people continue to trust them even more than they do the National Health Service or the BBC.

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