Citations:Netherlands

English citations of Netherlands

plural of Netherlands

• 2000, Hendrik J. Horn, The golden age revisited: Arnold Houbrakens's "Great theatre of Netherlandish painters and paintresses" (→ISBN)

  ... when the two Netherlands were at war and when two generations of Flemings had moved north to find greater freedom and prosperity, he was prepared to go against the flow. He wanted to satisfy his innate restlessness and, presumably, ...

• 2004, Alasdair A. MacDonald, A. H. Huussen, Scholarly Environments →ISBN, page 16:

  […] insight into the way both men are connected with the two Netherlands of the future: Orange with the liberal bourgeois Republic of the united (northern) Netherlands and Viglius with the confessional absolute state of the southern Netherlands.

• 2006, John Myhill, Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe →ISBN:

  The breakup of the United Netherlands presented no major problems to either the Dutch or the Flemings. The two Netherlands had only been together for 15 years, enthusiasm about language-based nationalism had not yet peaked in Europe, […]

• 2007, Charles Scribner III, The Shadow of God: A Journey Through Memory, Art, and Faith, Doubleday (→ISBN), page 104:

  At the time he painted it, a truce was being sought in the long war between the two Netherlands, north and south—a war that Rubens later spent his diplomatic energies to end once and for all. He failed in his lifetime, but not for want of effort or ...

• 2012, Frank T. Brechka, Gerard Van Swieten and His World 1700–1772, Springer Science & Business Media (→ISBN), page 13:

  Religion was not the cause of the political split between the north and south. Secondly, as a result of the Revolt, there did develop a difference in religious orientation in the two Netherlands. Most of the Protestants left the south and the Spanish ...

• 2013, Right-Wing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse →ISBN, page 199:

  An illustration of this front dynamic within Dutch populism is the ‘Two Netherlands’ speech of Geert Wilders at the Budget Review of 2009: "The realm of Balkenende is a kingdom of two Netherlands..."

• 2014, Geert H. Janssen, The Dutch Revolt and Catholic Exile in Reformation Europe, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 180:

  Expelled and marginalised, they became the driving forces of an energetic Counter-Reformation that redefined the two Netherlands – north and south. The remarkable agency of the Catholic exile community was not unique, though.

middle ground, limbo

• 2010 November 3, Ritch C. Savin-Williams, Kenneth M. Cohen, “Mostly Straight, Most of the Time”, in The Good Men Project‎^[1]:

  By his own admission, Dillon says he resides in the “Sexual Netherlands” (his words), a place that exists between heterosexuality and bisexuality. In previous generations, such individuals might have been described as “straight but not narrow,” “bending a little,” and “heteroflexible.”