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Continuous confrontation with Pakistan does not become this great nation which has much more important things to think about and which could afford to make the gestures to appease Pakistan without too much political effort.
They now base their legitimacy on the notion that the Party, which rose to power as the nation fought foreign domination, is uniquely qualified to keep China from being bullied in a hostile international arena, and that only they can provide the stable environment needed for growth.
A misconceived pension system is at the heart of the problem: Brazil spends more than 13% of GDP on pensions, more than any large industrialized nation except Italy, where the population is much older than in Brazil.
A modern nation whose military information is corrupted or disarmed - its satellites flying out of their orbits, its computer screens foaming with nonsense, its missiles curving back to strike its own cities - could be as thoroughly humbled as one smashed by physical bombs.
Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish officer falsely accused of treason in 1894, was such a polarizing figure in France because his opponents saw him as symbol of national decadence, of a nation whose sacred identity was being diluted by alien blood.
Roosevelt talked about the need to restore “the sound internal economic system of a nation” and condemned the “old fetishes of so-called international bankers.”
Anyone even remotely familiar with the region knows how common is the phrase "the Arab nation" ( watan ).
As US Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. stated in advance of the conference, “We felt that it was good for the world, good for the nation, and good for the Democratic Party, for us to move.”
Somalia said the principle of national self-determination should allow Somalis in northeastern Kenya (and in the southern Ethiopia) to secede, because they were one Somali nation.
Kenya and Ethiopia refused, saying they were still in the process of building a nation.
In early January, the American social critic James Howard Kunstler described India as “a nation with one foot in the modern age and the other in a colorful hallucinatory dreamtime.”
In November, Indians' votes were the key factor behind the election of a populist political outsider, ex-army colonel Lucio Gutierrez, as president of this small Andean nation.
Market reforms initiated by the left started in 1984 with a New Zealand labor government which enacted legislation that transformed a small formerly isolated nation into one of the most "liberal" economies in the world.
Astutely, China has sought to place its African investments and diplomacy within the context of the old non-aligned movement and “Bandung spirit,” an era when many Africans viewed China as a brotherly oppressed nation, and thus supported efforts by the People’s Republic to gain a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, to replace Taiwan.
When the IMF rescue squad rushes to help a distressed nation, whom are they there to protect?
Building a nation demands more than steel and concrete.
The assignment of exceptionally broad powers to the executive president under the new constitution reflects a populist vision of government according to which the elected leader, as the true representative of the nation, should not be hindered in pursuing the nation’s interests.
The nation can judge the president’s performance only every five years.
The power of nation states remains strong, and immigrants must deal with them in their daily lives.
In the past eight years, we have colluded with acts that jeopardized the very soul of our nation.
During the twentieth century, the nation recorded its highest percentage of foreign-born residents in 1910 – 14.7% of the population.
Despite being a nation of immigrants, more Americans are skeptical about immigration than are sympathetic to it.
In a recent book of essays Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic -- who has led the highly successful transformation of that nation -- draws on his experience when he emphasizes that the transformation process should be done quickly with a "mixture of intentions and spontaneity".
But one’s state was not a fully formed nation, with its own shared and deeply ingrained history, culture, ethnic identity, and religion.
These important assets make Turkey an “indispensable nation” in the region.
But federation has been made less, not more, likely by a crisis that tragically set one proud nation against another.
Turkey’s powerful military establishment may want to maintain close relations with Israel, but the widely popular change in Turkey’s foreign policy priorities, and the serious identity dilemmas facing the nation, send an unequivocal message that the alliance can no longer serve as an alternative to peace with the Arab world.
But almost every nation in the Middle East is using more water than arrives on a renewable basis.
Most water is used to grow food, so, if a nation’s economy is healthy, there is scope for saving water by importing a greater share of food, although every nation will want to maintain some assured food supply for security reasons.
They have embraced the elé belé strategy: let people believe that their opinion counts, that they are participating in their nation's decision making, while keeping them out of the real game.
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