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As a result, the willingness of WTO members to invoke the Dispute Settlement Mechanism, the pride of the WTO – and, indeed, of international governance – would also be sapped.
This year’s triple anniversary – 25 years of democracy, 15 years of NATO membership, and ten years of European Union membership – is a source of pride for the Polish people, and rightly so.
It has benefited many professionals and industries, too, by becoming a new source of pride, funding, and profit.
Turkey and Syria still have border disputes; for many Syrians, scenes of Turkish troops crossing the border, even behind lines of Syrian opposition fighters, would rally nationalist pride and strengthen Assad’s narrative of foreign-inspired terrorism and insurgency.
Latin American pride is justified.
In most if not all non-Western civilizations, pride and self love exclude self-criticism or at least the criticism of one’s civilization as such.
Britain had stood alone against a Hitler-dominated continental Europe in 1940, the moment of recent history recalled with most pride.
Yet the five emerging economies pride themselves on forming the first important non-Western global initiative.
Similarly, though the Olympics should be an occasion for national pride, foreign – and in particular American – athletes have been told to avoid showing their team colors when outside the grounds.
Even assuming that the Sochi Games pass off successfully, and that, despite the security restrictions and official bigotry, athletes and visitors enjoy their stay, will Russia’s brief display of national pride really be worth the financial and political cost?
Brazilian women point with pride to their president, Dilma Rousseff, but also underscore how much discrimination remains.
The European project has long suffered from giving economic integration pride of place while pushing political unification to the backburner.
When the euro was down, wounded pride forced EU governments to try talking it up.
Not only are America’s public schools starting to look second-rate, but so is its infrastructure, which had long been a source of national pride.
One hopes that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize provides a boost in pride that allows Europeans to look beyond their immediate financial problems, consolidate the Union’s strengths, and establish a coherent vision of the future.
They can seem intractable, because they are directly connected not only to national pride, but also to national security.
Yet, after years of taking pride in his work, he could be very reluctant to make the switch.
Third, family pride and honor are deemed more important than a woman’s individual well-being and safety.
Moreover, Hu has fomented nationalism, not by taking understandable pride in China’s impressive economic growth, but by demonizing Japan.
Holding pride of place here is America's Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and a number of people around him.
There was almost pride in the lack of confidence Argentina's people had in their institutions and their ability to manage without the shackles of convertibility.
Thus, Morales’s leadership brought together three strongly symbolic dimensions: nationalist sentiment, concern for the poor, and emerging ethnic pride among Bolivia’s native peoples.
They take pride in their ability to give not only physical pleasure, but also emotional support, to needy people who cannot get sex any other way.
Today’s young Israelis and Palestinians pride themselves on their entrepreneurialism, with all the risk and vision that starting something new entails.
It is an ancient civilization stretching back thousands of years, imbued with fierce national pride.
More generally, for reasons of pride and history, many Russians refuse to believe that US policymakers have become more concerned about Iran’s minimal strategic potential than they are about Russia’s robust nuclear forces.
The Putin government must put aside wounded pride and worries about the West and embark on sustained efforts to improve infrastructure and promote trade in the region.
Everyone remembers the popping champagne corks and pride that greeted the birth of European Monetary Union.
It is painful for Europe to lose pride in its new currency so fast, but in strict economics terms, no harm arises from the euro's present weakness.
The same thing could happen in China, where national pride constantly teeters on the edge of belligerence towards Japan, Taiwan, and ultimately the West.
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