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Indeed, Hiroshima and Nagasaki seem an eternity ago; new nuclear-weapons states have emerged without the world ending; no terrorist nuclear device has threatened a major city; and possession of nuclear weapons, for the states that have them, seems to be a source of comfort and pride rather than concern or embarrassment.
“We” French were not only on top of the world, we were overcome by a sense of pride, probably similar to what many Americans felt after Barack Obama’s presidential victory.
If Brazil can get it right, it would rival a victory in the 2014 World Cup for the country’s football team as a badge of national pride.
So protectionism is taking pride of place.
Furthermore, the army will always remain a school of discipline, loyalty to the country, coexistence, and solidarity, and thus also a school of civic virtue, including civic pride and self-confidence.
But there was always a right-wing minority that felt humiliated and resentful of the loss of national pride and, more important, national sovereignty, for Japan’s security would henceforth have to depend entirely on the protection offered by the US.
Kishi’s aim was to regain Japanese pride and sovereignty by revising the constitution and reviving old-fashioned patriotism, thus undoing some of the American educational reforms.
The March of Scientific FollyScientists take enormous pride in their avowals of intellectual impartiality.
Sometimes what Africa needs is more common sense and people who - unlike African's powerful “Big Men” - are willing to set aside their pride and ask simple questions that others don't want to face.
Given the mismatch of member states’ policy (topple Qaddafi) and a strategy to “protect civilians” based on a contested United Nations Security Council resolution, NATO can certainly take pride in managing a great challenge and strengthening its role as the preeminent Euro-Atlantic institution.
So China’s pride nowadays is legitimate.
But with GDP up by just 1.3% in 2013 – and with sanctions likely to hasten the economy’s decline – patriotic pride will not be able to shield him much longer.
The DSM is the pride of the WTO: it is the only impartial and binding mechanism for adjudicating and enforcing contractual obligations defined by the WTO and accepted by its members.
A national “pedagogy of pride,” on the other hand, “amounts to reversing socialization back to a fetal state.”
It became a matter of national pride for a country that had been guafen , "cut up like a melon," by predatory colonial powers, to end national feelings of humiliation by restoring itself to wholeness.
People often take pride in their cities, and seek to nourish their distinctive civic cultures.
Urban pride – what we call “civicism” – is a key feature of our identities today.
Urban pride can also prevent extreme nationalism.
Yet cities like Hangzhou, Portland, and Vancouver take pride in their “green” ethos, and go far beyond national requirements in terms of environmental protection.
The Dutch always took pride in being the most tolerant people on earth.
"Welfare" occupies a pride of place in the social sciences that humanists and natural scientists replace with "survival" and maybe even "fortune."
Its leaders feel their own bargaining position strengthened by the country’s new facilities and stockpiles, and, while hurt by sanctions, too much pride is at stake ever to surrender in the face of them.
On the contrary, any proper understanding of ideologies must reckon with their power to seduce and even genuinely convince people who care little about their emotional appeal – whether to pride or to hate – but who think they actually offer rational policy solutions.
In an interdependent world, isolation is no longer a source of pride; on the contrary, it is a cause for concern.
But if Putin, who has spent seven years “verticalizing” power in order to restore the stability and pride lost during Yeltsin’s “democratization” of Russia, really wanted to secure the good of his country, he would follow in Yeltsin’s footsteps and exit the scene.
Its constructive stance derives from a worldview that accords pride of place to the values of democracy, social justice, economic development, and environmental protection.
To be fair, the tech sector has been the United States’ economic pride and joy in recent decades, a seemingly endless wellspring of innovation.
Rather than getting distracted by some sense of wounded pride, those who have engaged in a conflict that has killed or wounded hundreds of thousands of innocent people and displaced millions more should decide to do what it takes to end the mayhem.
This is a strange turn, for parliamentary democracy has long been a source of pride for most Indians.
In India, plumbing is a low-caste job (because it is connected with toilets and human waste); the course tries to fight that perception and instill pride in its students.
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