National Trust

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(in Britain) an organization concerned with the preservation of historic buildings and monuments and areas of the countryside of great beauty in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1895 and incorporated by act of parliament in 1907. The National Trust for Scotland was founded in 1931

(in Australia) a similar organization in each of the states

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How to use National Trust in a sentence

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Whether he can do it on the national stage is the unanswered question.
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We face a lot of problems at this moment in our national and global history.
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But the last national figure to wield ancient personal authority in an explicitly religious way was Robert F. Kennedy.
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If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.
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He must trust to his human merits, and not miracles, for his Sonship is of no value in this conflict.
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As if unwilling to trust himself longer in dangerous companionship, he went up to town with Thomas Carr.
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