For Mr Vajpayee, who once said that his life's ambition was to see India take its place as a great nation, it must be very dispiriting.

瓦杰帕伊(Vajpayee)曾说他的志向就是看着印度成为大国，但现在一定让他非常沮丧。

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It would show that we are not ready as a nation to enter into great questions of foreign policy.

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But no such mechanism exists for non-bank financial institutions like AIG whose failure would inflict great economic pain on the nation as a whole.

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To avoid destruction the United States need only measure up to its own best traditions and prove itself worthy of preservation as a great nation.

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This question has to be examined, not only in the context of U.S.-China relationships, it has to be looked at in the light of historical relationships, in which the major European powers, including the U.S., sought to achieve their own objectives in opening trade with China and, as a consequence, humiliated a great nation.

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Pretty much all of the French candidates have tried to mark themselves out with voters by defining new limits on international co-operation and by emphasising that France, as a great and historic nation, can keep certain international forces at bay.

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