As a direct reaction and resistance to colonial oppression, archaeology was also used for the purpose of legitimating the existence of an independent nation-state.

The authors started to think about an independent Lithuanian nation-state.

The Bretton Woods system was the first monetary order that organized monetary relations among independent nation-states.

Ippen supported the establishment of an independent nation-state of Albanians.

Ippen struggled for the establishment of an independent nation-state of Albanians.

All but six African countries were independent nation-states by 1966.

A number of independent nation-states form from the fractured United States; hostilities between these sovereignties eventually escalate into outright war.

His views on Britain's relations with the rest of the world derived ultimately from the belief in the independent nation-state.

The age of empire ought to have been succeeded by an age of independent, equal and self-governing nation-states.

The Holy See is an independent nation-state, with its own newspapers, television stations and publishing houses and vast real estate holdings.