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The world’s judgments about Iran’s motives and actions should not be distorted by Iranian pride.
She takes pride in being the Indian politician who pays the highest income taxes – about $6 million last year – though the sources of her income are shrouded in controversy.
They were pitchforked into battle in unfamiliar lands, in climatic conditions to which they were neither accustomed nor prepared, fighting an enemy of whom they had no knowledge, risking their lives every day for little more than pride.
It helps if this is based on something deeper than shared interests: a language, a sense of common history, pride in cultural achievements.
Moreover, he has little use for small talk or the grubbier side of politics, and his overweening pride in his exceptional intelligence makes him impatient with others’ ideas.
Scientists and researchers, once the pride of the Soviet Union, have vanished, often lured by more rewarding opportunities, at home or abroad.
The West – mainly the Anglo-American part of it – had recovered some of its pride and nerve under US President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
We pride ourselves as the masters of nature, with the beasts of land and sea at our disposal.
India regards its successful expatriates as a source of pride, support, and investment.
America’s Weak Case Against ChinaNEW HAVEN – On the surface, United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer appears to have made an ironclad case against China in the so-called Section 301 report issued on March 22.Laid out in a detailed 182-page document (which, with 1,139 footnotes and five appendices, would make any legal team blush with pride), the USTR’s indictment of China on charges of unfair trading practices regarding technology transfer, intellectual property, and innovation seems both urgent and compelling.
And the government and international health officials have agreed on a plan to stop polio transmission in Pakistan completely by the end of 2014 – a historic accomplishment that would be a huge source of national pride.
The Shiites back Hezbollah because it appeals to their communal pride, represents their interests domestically, and stirs their religious passions.
Superficially, Russia and China may give the impression that they are pursuing the same path when they both proclaim with pride that they are “back” on the world stage.
The kind of exalted patriotism, especially when combined with warrior pride, that is still entirely normal in the United States, was for a long time associated with mass slaughter.
Reasons for national pride are varied.
If national pride demands eternal Polish ownership of Polish land, and thus scuttles membership in the EU, Poland will be condemned to a future as a kind of a gigantic museum of the peasantry.
In Costa Rica, we pride ourselves on the fact that nearly all of our electricity is produced by renewable sources, including hydroelectric, geothermal, and wind.
Indeed, France has a very large immigrant population that originated in the Maghreb, and for which the “Arab spring” is vitally important and a source of fascination and pride.
That, too, helped rekindle a sense of national pride, extending from the Kremlin to the streets.
But, as usual, pride precedes a fall.
We want to take pride in our Games, and we cannot do that if we hobble future generations with debt.
Space missions have become a matter of pride for India, which is already one of the top countries in terms of rocket and satellite technology.
Mao’s establishment of authority over China, his injection of patriotic pride into a land that had been appallingly sundered and humiliated by external and internal forces for a century and a half, and his romantic legend as a global revolutionary leader – all contribute to the moral and political legitimacy for which China’s leaders search.
Residual suspicions and Russian pride limit the NATO-Russia agreement, but the organization is no longer focused on Russia.
Rather, the electorate was expressing its indignation, despair, and wounded national pride.
Israel’s assault scored impressive initial successes, while Hamas can take pride in having reached Tel Aviv with its missiles, an achievement that eluded Hezbollah in the 2006 Lebanon War.
His efforts to revise Japan’s pacifist constitution, restore pride in its wartime record, and discredit “elitist” mainstream media, such as the left-of-center newspaper Asahi Shimbun, have earned him the praise of Donald Trump’s former strategist, Stephen Bannon, who called Abe a “Trump before Trump.”
Resentment feeds off a sense of humiliation, a loss of pride.
Populists find support among those resentful faces in the crowd, people who feel that elites have betrayed them, by taking away their sense of pride in their class, their culture, or their race.
People in department stores seem to take genuine pride in wrapping merchandise beautifully.
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