"As a modern nation, we shouldn't allow that to continue," he said.

In doing so, he put off the further economic and political change needed to make Brazil the modern nation of his vision.

During this time, Scotland moved forward to become a modern and prosperous nation.

"We took a country that was a sandbox and made it into a modern nation."

Sometimes they achieve the highest levels of political power in modern industrial nations.

More trade, not less, he argued, is the best way to promote China's evolution into a modern nation.

The period also saw the emergence of the modern nations.

Further, the word country does not always appear in the acts of union which established the modern nation.

Each tribe had their own forms of government, but no modern nation existed.

Peru has taken the position of a modern civilized nation to go to court.