A national crisis turned America, for a few years, into a nation of gardeners.

Others felt the 13 states should divide into three independent nations.

Georgia was planning to turn itself into a nation of resorts.

"He has turned a scattered people into a nation and led them back to a homeland."

He had transformed Russia, she said, from a backward land into a great nation.

"We took a country that was a sandbox and made it into a modern nation."

He turned his own earlier verse into a nation at the very moment of its abandonment.

More trade, not less, he argued, is the best way to promote China's evolution into a modern nation.

Or, has Iraq, by now, congealed into a real nation?

I'd like to think that those factors since have been transformed us into a greater nation with better rights and civil liberties for all.