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One might expect the climax of such a film to concern sexuality, but instead it reaches out to encompass the gestalt of human relationship, of being and belonging.
A guy from Homeland Security parachutes in to look into this problem, commandeers the car belonging to the sheriff's secretary and begins to investigate.
This double episode provided a great introduction to the new series, unlike other Star Trek series it isn't set on board a shiny new space ship but on a battered former Cardassian space station belonging to the recently liberated planet of Bajor.
So far, the economies belonging to the World Trade Organization have resisted the kind of widespread protectionism that would make a bad situation much worse.
Unless these countries devise a new way to balance liberal democratic values and people’s craving for a sense of belonging, they will end up paving a path to disaster.
Through language he feels rich and stable; and when he is fully in charge of his wealth, he gains his citizenship, a sense of belonging.
Everywhere, people face the contradiction between centrifugal, cosmopolitan modernity and the centripetal need (or at least nostalgia) for belonging.
Today, there are growing concerns about third parties accessing and manipulating Facebook user data; and before that, there was a raging debate about whether the government should be able to unlock devices belonging to suspects of terrorism or other crimes.
The most common charge against reporters is belonging to, aiding, or propagandizing for an alleged terrorist organization.
It thus delivered to its followers that most precious and intangible of human needs: a sense of worth and belonging.
He illustrated this claim by drawing an analogy between ending one’s own life and killing a slave belonging to someone else, which means that one “sins against that slave’s master.”
Their feeling of belonging to a great and unified family was reinforced by the common aristocratic origins of their diplomats.
Brexit and the Future of EuropeNEW YORK – Britain, I believe, had the best of all possible deals with the European Union, being a member of the common market without belonging to the euro and having secured a number of other opt-outs from EU rules.
For the first time in the Republic’s history, 365 landholdings and buildings belonging to the minority communities were legally registered under their name.
Workers belonging to each caste pursued a wide variety of occupations, although agriculture provided the bulk of employment.
Access to literacy and to jobs in the government sector and modern professions was limited to a small section of the population usually belonging to the high castes.
In any case, the majority of peasants belonging to any caste, upper or lower, were poor.
The Holocaust is internationally recognized as belonging to a different era and being in no way representative of the country’s current leaders or its people.
They share a feeling of being dispossessed by foreigners, of losing their sense of national, social, or religious belonging.
It seems that Homo economicus, who lives for bread alone, has given way to someone for whom a sense of belonging is at least as important as eating.
Can communities be created by politics and markets, or do they presuppose a prior sense of belonging?
Stalin, too, selected some of his victims on this basis – not only Ukrainians, but also people belonging to ethnic minorities associated with countries bordering the Soviet Union.
And in Mali, shortly after the attacks in Paris, gunmen belonging to an Al Qaeda affiliate stormed the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, killing 22 people.
The agreement could become a model for similar agreements with other countries belonging to the EU’s Eastern Partnership.
As Lower shows, the Nazis reached out with special programs – from organizing homemakers to colonizing the conquered Eastern territories – that gave working-class women things they craved: a sense of belonging to something larger than themselves (fascism’s eternal draw), backed by a complex official iconography in which the traditionally devalued roles of wife and mother held a crucial place in the national drama.
As a result, in both Europe and the United States, much of the debate over immigration is dominated by illiberal voices, the most insistent belonging to politicians who promise to protect the cultural integrity of the homeland against the presumed degeneracy of the alien.
Supporters of gathering statistics on race and religion also look to the experiences of the United States, Britain, or the Netherlands, where census takers are free to inquire about ethnic origins and a citizen’s sense of belonging.
But democracy does require that citizens have a sense of belonging.
Society’s task is to give them a feeling of belonging.
Nobody wants to repeal citizenship legislation that makes birthplace, not bloodlines, the basis of belonging, and everybody is proud that right-wing populism has never taken off in the way that it has among some of Germany’s neighbors.
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