A frightened nation struggled to get through those days after September 11.

Every European nation has struggled toward democracy and free markets.

Who would have thought that this nation of yours was struggling for its life in war?

He reflects the Libya emerging from the last 37 years, a nation struggling to come to terms with itself.

She would understand that we are still a nation of provincials, struggling now with our identity as a global power.

Less-developed countries, nations struggling with war, understand the importance of family.

This, experts say, is the real reason the nation has struggled for years with the medicalization of death.

He talked about a nation struggling for its survival.

From the start, we have been a nation struggling to balance two competing values: freedom and equality.

Those are ambitious undertakings in a nation still struggling to build a civil society.