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Recent research conducted at the University of Oxford found that from China to the United Kingdom, people facing economic hardship – even children – experience a nearly identical assault on their pride and self-esteem.
And to ensure labor mobility, the report gives pride of place to “flexicurity,” in the form of portable benefits (“transition assistance for workers”).
On the contrary, they typically pride themselves on integrity.
To the extent that there is a new German patriotism, it is ironic; if there is pride, it is pride in how thoroughly the country has dealt with the double legacy of Nazism and East German state socialism (in addition to pride in the economy and the constitution).
They take pride in the expert “management of expectations” by central banks.
He would like to restore some aspects of an older Japan, discredited by Japanese military behavior, such as patriotic pride, a more central role for the imperial institution, and even a reappraisal of Japan’s wartime record itself.
The contradiction in Abe’s nationalism is this: even as he talks about sovereignty regained and patriotic pride, he has done nothing to distance Japan from the postwar dominance of the US.
Oddly, the knowledge that the professor willingly imparts with great pride to his advanced students is deemed to be inappropriate (or dangerous) for the general public.
The pride that Americans – and Africans – have felt since Obama’s election is important and, one hopes, will bring long-term benefits.
Instead, Putin takes perverse pride in his persistent efforts to alienate the West.
They were only too willing to advise Europe to work harder and spend less, as legitimate pride mingled with an understandable desire to settle historical scores and attenuate their legacies of colonial submission and humiliation.
One might think that Britons' aversion to the EU would be reflected in support for, and pride in, their national institutions.
In 1997, a few months after the election of Tony Blair and a few days after the death of Princess Diana, I wrote a report arguing that, instead of mourning the death of the old narratives, we should celebrate the birth of new ones, reflecting pride in our past successes, while touting our creativity, diversity, and openness to business.
But, as a matter of national pride, the Chinese refuse to articulate an international commitment under duress, and Obama doesn’t have much standing in pressing China to compromise, since the US Congress hasn’t yet acted on cap-and-trade legislation.
It is the key to successful military action – and, in many ways, to success in general – and United States Marines like me pride ourselves on it.
While it was true that the outside world once preyed on a defenseless China, modern Chinese must get beyond wounded pride because to insist that China is still being hobbled by foreign conspiracies against its sovereignty and prosperity is to encourage the Chinese to engage in a form of dangerously delusional thinking.
Thaksin’s ownership is a source of considerable pride, especially outside elite circles in Bangkok.
Moreover, India can claim a great deal of pride in the fact that the last two presidents were from minority populations – one from the lowest of castes (Harijan, formerly referred to as “untouchables”), and another one from the Muslim community.
As a daughter of a woman who fought for women’s rights during the independence movement and was instrumental in starting one of the first women’s institutions in India, I should feel a genuine sense of pride in the election of Patil.
We now live in a world where former communists must take pride in becoming successful managers of a capitalist economy.
Looking once more at the news of January 15, I feel pride and hope: pride for a country that has shown the world its readiness to establish a genuine, secular democracy, and hope for what is to come.
When he rightly opposed America’s war against Iraq, the pride of standing up to the world's only superpower was palpable.
What has been missing, however, are energetic extension workers, brimming with pride in their own people and passion for new approaches.
I commend and take pride in Poland’s prudent and determined policy and the attitude of its public, which do us great credit.
The Resistible Rise of Marine Le PenPARIS – Watching the results of the second ballot in France’s regional elections on December 13, surrounded by my family, I was overpowered by a sense of relief, and even pride.
The country’s pride and sense of mission, inherited from the Ancien Régime and reinforced by the French Revolution, may not have prevented collaboration with Nazi Germany under the Vichy government; but it took a disastrous defeat to force France to bend its knee to the far right.
We should take pride in these achievements; but we must not rest on our laurels.
In that spirit, the continent took considerable pride in the successful execution of the 2010 election and in Ivorian voters’ courageous and disciplined behavior.
We take pride in that the Sudan of the Revolution has become the exemplary essence of this new hope.
Years later, the same MP, Atal Behari Vajpayee, became Prime Minister, and took pride in giving the opposition as much leeway as possible.
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