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The traditional view that women belong in the home is arguably the largest barrier to women’s advancement in both society and the workplace.
We had to explain that although sidewalks live next to roads, they do not belong to the same family.
In particular, whereas ownership rights over natural resources in the US typically belong to the individual owner of the land under which the resources lie, in Europe ownership belongs to the state.
The European Commission has few powers of its own with which to confront the recession as it spreads throughout the European Union; most powers belong to the European Central Bank.
Mobs shouted at Tunisian women demonstrators to go back to the kitchen “where they belong.”
The twenty-first century will belong to countries that properly educate their young people to participate productively in the global economy.
But the British will no longer belong to the EU, and will remain skeptical of French talk of strategic autonomy, which could imply a weaker NATO.
On the contrary, that is exactly where they belong.
A disproportionate share reflects the narrow group of people who speak English, travel abroad, and belong in the top income group - hardly an unbiased sample.
People want to know where they belong, and in the process they turn against the US and toward Europe, or against Europe and toward their country.
Does the future belong, then, to the clowns, the anarchic blogosphere, the anti-politicians, and the populist showmen who entertain the masses with jokes, slurs, and indiscretions on TV channels, which some of them actually own?
They also belong to several large tribes, guaranteeing wide tribal representation if a military council were to take power, as in Egypt.
But, it is equally unacceptable for any state to act as if the security concerns of countries in its neighborhood are quantite negligeable: Russia’s security concerns definitely do not belong to the negligeable category.
Host community supervisors look at business units in isolation from the international group to which they belong.
Granted, the people publicly mourning in Pyongyang belong to the most privileged class, and dramatic bawling is a traditional Korean way of expressing grief.
And, according to this logic, whoever is against the people cannot truly belong to the people.
Japanese public opinion has remained adamant for decades that all four islands belong to Japan, and that no real peace can exist until they are returned.
Not considered to be part of the native Russian people, Jews were assumed to belong to an international cabal, and hence to be inherently treacherous.
Will his chosen successor belong to one of the Kremlin’s feuding factions?
In a March interview with the tabloid Bild, Seehofer declared, in perfect populist fashion, that, “Islam does not belong to Germany.”
Moreover, Weah and his government would do well to embrace Sirleaf’s statement that “poverty, illiteracy, disease, and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century.”
The real problem is relations between the US and European countries, 21 of which belong to both organizations.
Since the end of World War II, the middle class has provided the backbone of democracy, civil engagement, and stability; those who did not belong to the middle class could realistically aspire to join it, or even believe that they were part of it, when that was not the case.
This implies a fundamental reversal of the present approach, whereby social policies belong to member states and the Union has tightly circumscribed powers of intervention, which, in addition, can only be exercised with unanimity.
But he errs in not acknowledging that some students experience acute discomfort by being made to feel as though they do not belong.
Even close allies who belong to Saleh’s own Hashid tribe, such as Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, have abandoned him.
The constitution says that power belongs to the people, but in reality the rights of the people belong to the Communist Party and its leaders, from whom workers and peasants receive scant attention.
And you need only check in with some of your classmates who have populated the Occupy movements around the world to sense the widespread resentment of financiers and the top 1% of income earners to whom they largely cater (and often belong).
While many other countries now also profess these values, they belong to other geographical areas and therefore – if only for this purely external reason – cannot be considered part of the West.
In a world of globalization, however, many people belong to multiple imagined communities.
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