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Northern Ireland must, in future, be absorbed into the Irish republic. Wales and Scotland must advance from devolution to full independent status. The four nations of these islands must commit themselves absolutely to the project of a United Europe.
Norman Davies
Future
Project
Independent
Must
Status
Absolutely
Advance
Absorb
Islands
Ireland
Irish
Wales
Scotland
Commit
Northern
Northern Ireland
Nations
Republic
Themselves
Full
Europe
United
Four
In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.
Omar Bongo
Sometimes
Political
Poverty
Wish
Our
Abandoned
Neither
Some
Give
Economic
Spite
Because
Impose
Nor
Models
Dependence
Nations
But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.
Omar Bongo
People
Important
United Nations
Punished
Directly
Generally
Observe
Supposed
Impose
End
Up
Nations
Being
Regime
Against
Sanctions
Certain
Europe
United
Millions
Millions Of People
I think about issues like climate change, and how six of the 10 worst impacted nations by climate change are actually on the continent of Africa. People are reeling from all sorts of unnatural disasters, displacing them from their ancestral homes and leaving them without a chance at making a decent living.
Opal Tometi
Change
People
Living
Think
Ancestral
Worst
Unnatural
Impacted
About
Like
Disasters
Sort
Without
How
Making
Climate
Climate Change
Continent
Leaving
Reeling
Issues
Six
Decent
Nations
Africa
Them
Homes
Actually
Chance
Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
Orison Swett Marden
Personality
Gift
Sometimes
Destinies
Characters
Strongest
Charm
Divine
Controls
Nations
Even
One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations.
Pat Buchanan
Would
Only
Judges
Deal
How
Iranians
Afghans
Nations
Moving
Imagine
The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.
Paul Gillmor
Today
Democracy
Achieve
Independence
Nation
Our
Those
Striving
Remain
Also
Globe
Nations
Declaration
Across
Standard
Expressed
Beliefs
Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.
Paul P. Harris
World
Become
Individuals
Owe
Nations
Informed
Themselves
In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations.
Paul Watson
Women
Men
Men And Women
Weather
Dramatic
Out
Catch
Catching
Also
Deadliest
Ships
Crabs
Whale
Whales
Going
Nations
Different
Confrontation
Sea
Help
Wars
Rough
Seas
Dozen
Save
The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.
Paul Watson
Nature
World
Law
National
United Nations
Section
High
High Seas
Charter
Area
Individual
Beyond
Empowers
Uphold
Jurisdiction
Any
Nations
Organisation
International
Seas
United
Specifically
Conservation
Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.
Paul Weyrich
Money
Try
Teenagers
Our
Teeth
Kick
Out
Taking
Like
How
How Many Times
Still
Times
Just
Nations
While
Us
Figure
Who
Many
Rebellious
More and more of the world's population is gaining access to the same kind of computing power and connectivity that has transformed daily life for developed nations.
Peggy Johnson
Life
Daily
World
Power
Kind
More
More And More
Computing
Developed
Access
Same
Nations
Transformed
Gaining
Population
Daily Life
The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We must live within our means and implement creative, free-market solutions to put Americans back in jobs and to create economic opportunities.
Pete Sessions
Creative
Opportunities
Live
Back
Our
States
Out
Jobs
Must
Solutions
Rely
Economic
Economic Opportunities
Put
Implement
Longer
Bail
Within
Foreign
American
Irresponsibility
Nations
China
Us
Create
Means
United
United States
More than a decade and half after 9/11, U.S. military actions in countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and several other Muslim nations are governed by the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was passed in the days immediately after 9/11.
Peter Bergen
Half
Military
Other
Several
Immediately
Syria
Muslim
More
Countries
Days
Force
Passed
Governed
Iraq
Than
Decade
Authorization
Afghanistan
Nations
After
Use
Military Force
Actions
Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.
Peter Blair Henry
Future
Health
Achievement
Age
Discipline
Delay
Young
Ability
Economic
Individual
Powerful
Academic
Also
Just
Nations
Young Age
Central
Predictor
Professional
Gratification
Money in property is dead money. It doesn't help the country. It's funny how the U.K., Ireland and Spain are the most property-obsessed nations in Europe and yet are also the ones suffering the most.
Peter Hargreaves
Funny
Property
Suffering
Money
Country
Most
Also
Dead
How
Ireland
Nations
Spain
Help
Europe
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
Philip Emeagwali
Positive
Men
Every
Out
Rate
Proportions
Developing
Reached
Infection
American
HIV
Nations
American Men
Epidemic
There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
Rainn Wilson
Time
School
Debate
Band
Club
United Nations
Spend
High
Would
High School
Point
Pottery
Computer
Had
Go
Chess
Junior
Model
Junior High
Same
Quit
Just
Same Time
Nations
After
After-School
Which
Team
United
Marching
Marching Band
Actually
Safety and security of women and children will determine the well-being and strength of our nations.
Rajnath Singh
Strength
Women
Safety
Will
Our
Security
Determine
Well-Being
Women And Children
Nations
Children
President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Sometimes
Oppose
Odds
Congress
United Nations
President
Everything
Members
Obama
Administration
Finds
Principle
Does
Itself
Nations
Barack
Who
United
Nearly
I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I don't think they're going to be occupying foreign nations in order to dry up terrorist groups within them. I think that lesson has been learned.
Richard Engel
You
Army
Lesson
Think
Has-Been
Seeing
Small
Divisions
Employing
Learned
Dry
Within
Deal
Occupying
Terrorist
Foreign
Been
Up
Going
Nations
Order
Again
Them
Large
Groups
The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces in Iraq.
Richard Engel
Fight
Other
Jihad
Extremists
Syria
Syrian
Libya
Muslim
Arabia
Border
Main
Town
Forces
Became
Islamic
Go
Iraq
Yemen
American
Afghanistan
Egypt
Nations
Against
Used
Radicals
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Gateway
U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.
Richard Grenell
Peace
World
Power
United Nations
World Peace
Think
Side
East
East Side
About
New
Like
Academics
Foreign
Ambassador
Intellectual
Discussions
Upper
Nations
Where
New Yorkers
Place
United
The money from wealthy nations to confront some very real global poverty and economic issues is largely given out of guilt.
Richard Grenell
Money
Guilt
Poverty
Out
Wealthy
Some
Given
Economic
Global
Real
Issues
Very
Nations
Confront
Largely
Many developing nations have such severe debt and budget problems that the money given by developed nations will never be spent the way it is intended.
Richard Grenell
Money
Problems
Will
Way
Spent
Severe
Given
Never
Developed
Developing
Budget
Debt
Intended
Nations
Many
The U.N. and other international bodies, along with wealthier nations, could manage the unavoidable migration from poorer countries if there were greater focus on stopping the larger chaos created by leaders who finance and support terrorism in the name of Islam.
Richard Grenell
Finance
Terrorism
Focus
Islam
Other
Chaos
Unavoidable
Could
Leaders
Support
Countries
Name
Along
Greater
Were
Manage
Nations
Stopping
Poorer
Created
Migration
Bodies
Who
International
Larger
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