Ms. RAWAIDA HAMUD: (Through translator) (Unintelligible) he died for fighting for his country, and he was running like a tiger just to save his country.
Yet in reality Prince Bandar's power like that of his country has long been waning.
The story quoted a West Virginia resident as saying the Iranian leader "takes national defence seriously, and he'd never let some gay protesters tell him how to run his country like Obama does".
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Mr Orban looks like an oddball, and his country is now a lower priority, at a time when lenders have more urgent calls on their time and money.
Mr Noda, like many Japanese, worries about his country's fading relevance in world affairs.
However, George Osborne will not want to appear to be like the other people who use his country retreat when he is not.
Nor can conservatives claim that Mr Bush is a country-club Republican like his father.
"Metrobank and Equitable Bank will not take the BPI-FEBTC merger sitting down, " says Rafael Buenaventura, the central bank governor who, like his predecessors, has been urging the country's 52 commercial banks to merge.
On February 25th, Roh Moo-hyun will be inaugurated as South Korea's president at what is starting to look like one of the bleaker moments in his country's history since 1953, when the Korean war ended.
Pavan Varma, the director-general of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, also thinks that in at least one respect the middle class of his own country behaves more like members of its elite than as a distinctive group of its own.
Mr Kirchner, like many Argentines, pins the blame for his country's economic collapse of 2001-02 squarely on the Fund.
So wrote journalist Donald Horne at the start of the 1960s, but like so much of his opus, The Lucky Country, it could have been penned today.
To the extent that his country's governing elites, like those in many Western countries, often abdicate responsibility for recognizing and dealing with the multi-front threat of Islamism, Wilders warnings can be imperative.
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Ultimately, Pham understands that achievements like this will serve as his legacy in the increasingly capitalistic country where his mom supported him making tea.
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But the FDP, like the Lib Dems in England, which became his adopted country in 1988, was small and weak, and not quite what he wanted.
He suggests that Pol Pot, like many other Cambodians, was driven by resentment over his country's loss of glory since the great days of the Angkor empire.
Just like FDR, the Russian president believes he has rescued his country from a Great Depression - in Russia's case, the chaos of the Yeltsin era in the 1990s - and laid the foundations for a new era of prosperity.
Some of his efforts took the form of laws (like the country's statute of limitations) that helped him to avoid conviction, some to attacks on the judiciary, some to the introduction of a voting system partly designed to keep him in power.
His links with the country are deep: like all tribesmen living in the border region he was a dual citizen of Afghanistan and Pakistan and has apparently previously owned property in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the heartland of the Afghan Taliban.
It reflects his inability to lead a modernizing, emerging country like Brazil and less so to be a reliable regional leader.
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Like the students in Beijing, he wants to help modernize his home country one day by drawing on his experience in China.
Like many an Iberian politician of his generation, Mr Barroso associates his country's passage into the European Union with the end of isolation and the advent of prosperity and democracy.
His country has been independent from Somalia since 1991 but, like Puntland, is unrecognised.
Like many of his countrymen, Jose takes a dim view of Haitians and their country, an attitude rooted in Haiti's post-independence invasions of the Dominican Republic.
These are postcards from a chef with ambitions not to be contained by borders. ("I've been an immigrant my whole life, " he says.) His most recent venture, a collaboration with the National Archives called America Eats Tavern, is a place where historic dishes like Kentucky burgoo and mock turtle soup serve as a love letter to his adopted country.
Liu talks about those challenges that working in China presents, and reflects on what his facility has meant for Chinese-educated researchers like him, and for the country's universities.
"It was not due to whatever differences he had with me over political or economic matters, but because his character does not qualify him to be a leader of a country like Malaysia, " he later told journalists, without giving details.
Like his father, Mr. Kim has used isolation and fear to maintain control over the country's 20 million people.
The idea that Latin America needs Chavez like Europe needs Putin is quite tempting for a leader whose aspirations are clearly bigger than his country.
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