2011年4月12日 · More politically, nationalism is “The support of one nation's interests to the exclusion of others” and chauvinism is “Excessive patriotism, eagerness for national superiority; jingoism,” or “Unwarranted bias, favoritism, or devotion to one's own particular group, cause, or …

2017年3月28日 · The words regional, national & global in your example represent the territory in which the competition is effective (and consequently the level of the competition). ODO: territory NOUN 1.3 An area in which one has certain rights or for which one has responsibility with regard to a particular type of activity.

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2020年3月24日 · Official nomenclature and journalistic practice. A recent item by Elisabeth Ribbans, "COVID or Covid?The comfort of pedantry at a time of national crisis," in The Guardian (April 19, 2020), asserts that initial-capping acronyms (abbreviations pronounced phonetically as approximately the sum of their letter sounds, rather than as as a series of names of the constituent alphabet letters) is the ...

2020年5月15日 · "This rulemaking will preempt State, local, and Tribal requirements but does not propose any regulation that has substantial direct effects on the States, the relationship between the national government and the States, or the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various levels of government."

2015年10月13日 · When preceding the name, such terms are usually capitalized in names of countries but lowercased in entities below the national level (but see 8.51). Used alone, they are usually lowercased. [Relevant examples:]the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; the republic; the State of the Gambella Peoples; the state

2012年1月31日 · Whatever symbols we may use, two of the axes are always in one plane. If x and y are horizontal, z is vertical; if x and z are horizontal, y is vertical.

2013年11月1日 · Next day, before the station had time to fire him, the place was snowed under with fan mail. By last week, the scattyboo platter session was being broadcast over five Southern California stations ("the net-to-net coastwork of the Oh-So-Peachy-Keen Broadcasting Company").Both ABC and Mutual were dickering for national network rights. Hawthorne's ...

2013年1月22日 · As you say yourself, Google is notoriously unreliable. (And NGrams is not always much better.) You should really have a look at professionally compiled and maintained corpora, such as the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British National Corpus. For historical trends, there's the Corpus of Historical American English. You sound ...

2010年9月21日 · While the NLC [National League of Cities] and the USCM [United States Conference of Mayors] often clashed throughout their histories on policy issues, with the NLC much less sympathetic to the demands of the larger urban areas, in recent years they have drawn much closer together.