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Meaning patriotic meaning
What does patriotic mean?
Definitions in simple English
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Synonyms patriotic synonyms
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Examples patriotic examples
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Simple sentences
Let's sing a patriotic air.
The residents of this town are deeply religious and patriotic people.
Tom is very patriotic.
Movie subtitles
It's a patriotic duty we're doing.
Me sitting around playing straight for that phoney patriotic chatter.
He went to Mount Vernon to give himself a patriotic address.
It's the patriotic duty of every newspaper in the country!
Each cabin is named after a president. - How very patriotic.
That misguided little man in the long overcoat undoubtedly believed he was acting on patriotic principles.
After all, it's our patriotic duty, isn't it?
Patriotic.
Patriotic drunk.
I'm as patriotic as the next man but the simple truth is war can condition a man to killing other men.
Kid, your patriotic discourse won't work on me.
Instead you arrive and start acting all patriotic.
You're patriotic.
Ladies and gentlemen we are proud to welcome these patriotic men who have travelled 1500 miles to join us in our hour of need.
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.
How very patriotic.
It seems more patriotic.
Most patriotic of Sir Barham.
Your orders were to establish yourself as a patriotic, respectable American.
You're a little too high and mighty, a little too patriotic for this.
You will set this poem to music, and it will be the first Croatian patriotic song.
It is a Croatian patriotic song.
Countess, you must help us make this patriotic tune known to the public.
Sounds like something patriotic.
We need good patriotic songs.
Don't be too impulsive and patriotic and dashing, Joey.
Listen for yourselves to the boundless enthusiasm of these patriotic Germans!
You mean Lola Livingston gets the patriotic urge?
Well, my urge is always patriotic.
AII the phoney patriotic cIaptrap of the employers.
And idiot, yes, but a patriotic one.
People like you are patriotic with sentimental words.
His mother is head of 15 different patriotic organisations.
Your patriotic decision to attend at the execution of the czech traitor, made a good impression for me.
It was hard and that's why i appreciate your patriotic action.
Good, patriotic stuff.
The current government uses patriotic speeches and glorification of the nuclear adventure as a diversion from the rise of worker and social issues.
News and current affairs
At home, Sarkozy has aimed his message particularly at the young, issuing a patriotic call to the values of work and discipline, a counter-revolutionary revolution.
He would like to restore some aspects of an older Japan, discredited by Japanese military behavior, such as patriotic pride, a more central role for the imperial institution, and even a reappraisal of Japan's wartime record itself.
The contradiction in Abe's nationalism is this: even as he talks about sovereignty regained and patriotic pride, he has done nothing to distance Japan from the postwar dominance of the US.
On the contrary, public opinion polls show that citizens remain highly patriotic and optimistic about their personal lives.
Aside from Hezbollah, March 8 includes the more secular Shiite Amal movement and the Free Patriotic Movement, a large Christian group led by General Michel Aoun.
Parliament Speaker Nabih Birri, Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, and Michel Aoun, leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, remain reluctant participants in the search for a new head of state.
For hard-line Communists, he was a hero three times over - historical, patriotic, and world-class.
They regarded returning as their patriotic duty.
Yet it is China's economic renaissance - some of whose effects so disturbed this patriotic old woman - which has been the most remarkable event in recent world history.
The glories of getting rich have overwhelmed the deprivations of patriotic self-sacrifice.
Poles, who lost nearly all their patriotic ideas over the past decade, now seem poised to rediscover their national identity solely on a negative basis forged by our peasants.
The fans of national sides are actors in a kind of patriotic carnival, dressed in the costumes of their national stereotypes: English fans as medieval knights, the Dutch in clogs, the Spanish as bullfighters.
Only two events have the power to mobilize and energize this sense of patriotism: the October revolution of 1917 and the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, which turned the USSR and Russia into a great world power.
No unified, patriotic Syrian opposition has existed since extremists hijacked the peaceful protests in 2011.
A Japanese prime minister can be strong without exploiting domestic resentment against the country's neighbors, and conservative, patriotic, and pro-American while forging a healthy working relationship with China.
Expanding NATO into the Baltic States in 2002 - the Alliance's first enlargement into former Soviet territory - was a catastrophic mistake, which made it almost impossible for a Russian to be both patriotic and pro-Western.
Only a few groups remained: the Shining Path in Peru, the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front in Chile, for a brief time the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico, and the FARC in Colombia.
Spain's victory was one of the rare occasions that Catalonians, Castillians, Basques, and Andalusians erupted together in an explosion of patriotic delight.
The government had erected the TV screens outside the Kremlin in order to ensure patriotic exultation of the victory that they assumed was coming.
Clearly, careless manipulation by the authorities of patriotic sentiments has proven to be a risky business in Russia.
But it is also feeding a patriotic emotion - a popular longing for the restoration of Russia's imperial status and prestige - that Putin's regime has shrewdly exploited.
The officially prescribed musical diet of North Koreans consists of patriotic hymns to the Communist Party, odes to the Dear Leader, to his father, the Great Leader, Kim Il-Song, and to the heroic spirit of the Korean people.
Are his patriotic credentials strong enough for him to renege on this pledge and pursue negotiations to withdraw without capturing the talismanic Osama?
The belief that openness is treason and closure is patriotic is a rejection of the entire post-1945 framework of politics and policy in the developed world.
The patriotic choice - the national interest - has always consisted in crafting domestic policies that best take advantage of globalization.