one's country
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In recent days Wang Hung-wei, a prominent lawmaker from the opposition Kuomintang party, criticised Zero Day Attack as "selling dried mangoes", a Taiwanese euphemism that means stoking unnecessary fear about the destruction of one's country.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
Across much of the world, soldierliness is considered a virtue and fighting for one’s country a natural way to serve it.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
“Thank you. Great honor, yeah,” said Bong, in English, before switching over to Korean to say that writing a screenplay was a lonely project, not one undertaken on behalf of one’s country.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2020
Patriotism is the love of one’s country; the passion that drives one to serve one’s country, either by defending it from invasion or by protecting its rights and maintaining its laws and institutions.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
While they taught that duty to one’s country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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