Nation, Carry

1. A social reformer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who argued forcefully for abstinence from alcohol. Known for taking direct action, she and her followers often used hatchets to smash beer kegs and liquor bottles in saloons. (See Prohibition.)

Example Sentences

It has helped the nation carry on through two world wars and the Blitz, followed by the loss of empire, the hollowing-out of Britain’s power.

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The report adds, on this head, that latterly the English and Dutch have interfered with some branches of this trade with Spain; and it also complains that the former nation carry on the Levant trade to much more advantage than the French, their woollen cloths being better and cheaper.

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Could the nation Carry this vast mass of incompetents and idlers on its back then; and can it reasonably be expected to do so now?

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