This fascinating local picture mirrors the national situation, and is perhaps a key to Shakespeare's outlook on the world.

Many writers exhibited a more positive attitude, trying to cope with the national situation at the time.

I'm sure it's harder for them because of their national situation.

However, a law dealing with the national situation as a whole was only introduced in 1979.

The economy is very sensitive to changes in the national and international situation.

We shall examine these in turn, relating them to specific national situations.

In the 1970s, the paper involved itself in the greater national situation.

This is sometimes of more relevance to national situations than to political and strategic choices.

Account must be taken of the diverse national situations.

We can unfortunately not even try to determine what the national or regional financial situation actually looks like.