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By contrast, the language concerning Polish heroism is very concrete, and embraces the entire nation.
The estimated 35 million Kurds – who regard themselves as a nation without a country – are becoming one of the most politically active migrant populations in Europe.
This includes my own country, the Czech Republic, a nation of small savers where the loan-to-deposit ratio remains well below 100%.
The term "international relations" assumes the Westphalian order of commitments among sovereign nation states, which replaced the medieval order of communities defined by personal fealty to a king.
Trees were also cut to clear cropland, provide heat, and the fledgling nation was using up its forests to build its own ironworks and railroads as well.
India is a tough nation.
While Royal has been critical of Sarkozy, she, too, has appealed to nationalism, calling for a “re-conquest of the symbols of the nation” from the right.
The US and those representing it have been guilty of hubris (the US may often be the indispensable nation, but it would be better if others pointed this out), and examples of inconsistency between America’s practices and its principles understandably provoke charges of hypocrisy.
The primary task they face is to reinvent Georgia as a corruption-free nation.
America once again must participate in nation building, and it cannot do so on the cheap.
Starting with the President, continuing through the ranks of Congress and the federal bureaucracy, and extending to the nation's many millions of steadily, safely employed executives and workers, ample health insurance is a guaranteed benefit.
The middle class is being hollowed out, and failed overseas adventures have discouraged the once “indispensable nation” from bearing the burden of global leadership.
Those who feel comfortable with the status quo would do well to heed the conclusion Representative Abraham Lincoln reached at the end of the Mexican-American War: “Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
Others are also historically marginalized from the social and political life of the nation, notably the Dalits, sometimes known as “untouchables,” who are at the bottom of the Hindu caste system.
The three Benelux countries, along with a few other smaller EU nations, are opposed to the new European president being from a large nation.
Zuma RisingThe anxiety over Jacob Zuma’s election as president of South Africa obscures a significant milestone: for the first time in decades, a sub-Saharan nation has at its helm a champion of ordinary people.
In Africa’s wealthiest nation – but also the nation where wealth is most unequally shared – a bold populist now holds ultimate power over government policy.
At the same time, major shifts began occurring in the Third World, and accelerated in the post-war decades: independence in India, liberation in China, decolonization in Asia and Africa, nation building and industrialization in Latin America.
The Chinese Communist Party hoped to use the Games to showcase the country’s emergence as a dynamic, modern nation.
Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser’s conservative government accepted his recommendation that whaling be stopped, and Australia soon became an anti-whaling nation.
Today, they feel “occupied” by a nation of which they can never be a part, and by a state that they perceive as “democratic” for its Jewish citizens only and “Jewish” for its Arab citizens.
Surely there is room across divides of party and nation to address these pressing humanitarian needs, which otherwise would only fuel future political trouble.
Indeed, terrorist attacks have been launched not only by the Islamic State, but also by Kurdish militants, whose demands for autonomy challenge the concept of an indivisible Turkish nation – a cornerstone of the Kemalist state.
China has now rejoined the world community as a cooperative, stable, and powerful sovereign nation, which will be one of the leading trading countries in the years ahead.
It depends on whether a people close themselves off in hope that the various winds of this world will pass them by; or, whether a nation takes the opposite tack and conducts itself as true inhabitants of this continent and of this planet, that is, as people engaged with the world and who assume their share of responsibility for it.
I repeat: if a nation's identity is jeopardized, it is placed in that position primarily from within; it is placed in jeopardy by choice – often the choices expressed at the ballot box – and out of negligence or indolence.
Consider Russia, a nation with vast natural resources, an educated population, and a rich heritage of scientific and cultural achievements.
In Britain, for example, Tony Blair articulates a vision of “a nation of savers and asset-holders.”
The Real Long MarchEvery nation has its founding myth.
If India as a nation could do as well as its four premier states, Andhra Pradean, Haryana, Kerala and Punjab, its poverty--and its prospects as an economic power--would be transformed.
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