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The war in Chechnya showed Yeltsin a man who would not even think about recognizing the first rule of democracy: self-determination, the right of any nation to choose its own independent path of development.
Perhaps al-Qaeda's motive in targeting Turkey is to derail a Muslim nation from its progress toward joining the European Union?
They are aliens who have no right to govern the nation.
Talk of God, freedom, and nation is not unique to right-wing radicals or Republicans.
By contrast, America maintained a trade embargo against Vietnam until 1994, established diplomatic relations only in 1995, and did not provide most-favored nation treatment to Vietnamese imports for years after that.
What is happening in Catalonia is a problem for the Spanish nation and, in particular, for a divided Catalan society.
The Kyoto Protocol did not fail because any one nation let the rest of the world down.
Although every member nation has played its part in integrating Europe, France has without doubt been the country that provided most of the ideas and master builders.
In France, as elsewhere in Europe, there have always existed unbridled nationalists, the “sovereignists” who say no to Europe in the name of defending the nation.
In the US, a nation that prides itself on its democratic traditions, pigs and calves are hardly the only losers.
In any developed nation, you will find selfless care being provided to the disabled, the dying, the destitute, and the disadvantaged, by people acting under the impulse of their faith.
True to themselves; but what about others, and what about the wider community, the nation at large?
For example, investments in research on alternative energy systems that can limit global warming are vital;third, we should insist that our politicians agree to greater international environmental cooperation, lest the neglectful and shortsighted policies within each nation end up destroying the global ecosystem.
As a result, political leaders have often asked citizens to sacrifice personal freedoms and comforts in the name of secularized spiritual entities, such as the nation or the state – and citizens have eagerly obliged.
In his first speech to the House of Commons as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill inspired hope in a beleaguered nation when he famously declared that he – and thus Britain – had “nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.”
In fact, this dangerous and irresponsible action is yet another key sign that China’s rise as a global power lacks any guarantee that it will be a peaceful nation once it grows strong.
So to continue to give China “exceptional” treatment given today’s Chinese behavior will undermine its ability to become a nation capable of exercising responsible global leadership..
Blood and religion, not citizenship, was what defined the nation during periods of subjugation.
Modern nation-states were shaped along civic, not ethnic, lines, and the nation was defined as a community of citizens.
The symbolic significance of a new cabinet was expected to reflect its redefinition of the Saudi nation and its future.
Moreover, the Saudi king’s role as custodian of Islam’s holy places is misused to stall reform, saying that any change must be carefully calibrated and engineered to meet the unique situation of a nation that carries this awesome responsibility.
Ukrainians know that the choice they make now, that their decision to stand firm with Viktor Yushchenko today, will determine their freedom forever, as well as the health of their nation – its independence as well as its economic strength.
However, when none of these issues were raised in Hu's July 1 st speech to the nation, reform-minded Chinese were palpably discouraged.
Russia also embraces universal human values such as trust in God, family, and country, as well as self-fulfillment through service to society and nation.
Though we can now debate what the penalty for water-boarding should be, America as a nation, maintaining an odd silence, still cannot seem to discuss the sexual crimes involved.
China, which has just been celebrating with a martial pomp the sixtieth anniversary of Mao’s founding of the “People’s Republic” constitutes one of the most interesting cases of a nation evincing “short sightedness” towards its past.
The time has come for India to recognize that with power comes responsibility, and to act like the indispensable nation for regional and world security that it has become.
But a nation has frequently been a group of people who lie collectively about their distant past, a past that is often – too often – rewritten to suit the needs of the present.
The enlightened ideology of a nation rising from the ashes of history has become a dark force in the hands of a new social and political elite that have perverted the idea.
Zionism has lost its way as a defining paradigm for a nation willing to find a bridge with the surrounding Arab world.
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