In the former Yugoslavia, the late strongman Josip Broz Tito tried to minimize and loosen communal and religious loyalties in a bid to forge a wider sense of nationhood.
Jacques van der Watt's highly conceptual brand, which values the form and functionality of clothing over the frivolity of trends, has for over a decade helped forge a contemporary identity for South African fashion.
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Their relationship ended during a dispute over the terms of a deal to forge a single business out of Xstrata and Glencore, with Glasenberg annoyed that Davis joined a push for more generous terms, a demand which was met but which also turned a so-called merger of equals into a hostile takeover and the break-up of the team.
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And now, we will be a partner as you forge a future that provides dignity, freedom and opportunity.
The BBC's Paul Reynolds in Washington says the Texas governor will need all the skills he claims to have as a bipartisan leader to forge a consensus.
Dennis Ross, a top Middle East adviser during Mr. Obama's first term, said the trip was a chance to "forge a new beginning" in relations, although he played down prospects for any breakthroughs.
Provisions to allow a core group of countries to forge a closer defence union, from which they might exclude others, are also meeting opposition from Finland, the central Europeans and the British.
It was soon after this that a group of young artists began to forge a path which would take them to international acclaim and change the way Britain thinks about contemporary art.
One potential remedy is to create a face-to-virtual-face interaction with a helpful, friendly looking, online sales assistant in the hope that, seeing a human-like figure who responds in a human manner, the customer will forge a relationship with the online business.
"For now the warning light is orange but it risks turning red if the appropriate measures are not taken, " he said, recommending a national conference of all political parties to forge a common anti-terrorism strategy.
The aim of this programme was to create a model that would make it possible to forge a link between literacy and the socio-economic integration of neo-literate women by way of a post-literacy training programme to consolidate the literacy skills acquired and prepare them to run micro-projects.
John Kerry, said it showed a failure on the part of the administration to forge a health care plan.
Our founding fathers in their wisdom chose at the outset of independence to use integration rather than assimilation as a national policy to manage race relations and to forge a new nation.
In its first of two exhibition games before the World Baseball Classic, manager Joe Torre's team fell into a four-run hole through five innings, and needed three RBIs by Giancarlo Stanton and a run-scoring triple by David Wright to forge a 4-4 tie in a game called after nine innings.
In a final summit statement, the three leaders promised to forge a joint position on climate change and also reaffirmed the need to reject trade protectionism.
What if they all could put their best and brightest ideas together in a methodology to forge an effective and efficient approach to solving a problem or serving a market?
He has acted as a liaison between the parties and among sectarian interests there to help forge a unity government.
We weren't surprised to see HTC's black beastie repeatedly fall behind the 1.5GHz Skyrocket, but we certainly didn't expect a 0.3GHz difference to forge such a drastic gap in Quadrant scoring between the two.
Will Campbell, director of JGC Engineering, who traces the family-owned firm back six generations to a blacksmith's forge, is building a computerised crane for a German company that needs it to remove nuclear-fuel rods from a defunct Lithuanian reactor.
In Iraq, they have battled a brutal insurgency, trained new security forces and given the Iraqi people the opportunity to forge a better future.
The transitional government in Somalia - also known as the PFG - as it stands at this point, is not strong enough to bring them all together, and that they need to start a dialogue with Islamists, as well as other groups within Somalia, to try to forge a real nation.
Following a month as caretaker boss with Dunfermline Athletic, he teamed up with Calderwood in 1999 to forge a long-lasting partnership at East End Park, Aberdeen and Kilmarnock.
The other problem with Netanyahu's speech is that by accepting the idea of a Palestinian state, and embracing Obama's fantasy that it is possible to reach a deal with the Palestinian Authority, Netanyahu blocked the possibility that Israel will be able to forge a new policy that will move it to a more advantageous status quo in the coming years.
At UCSF, the Li Ka Shing Foundation gift will be used to create a worldwide network of researchers and doctors, leadership exchanges between China and the U.S., and forge a program to create more precise medicines.
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Gilbertson is a big dealmaker who helped forge BHP Billiton into a behemoth.
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And we are currently working on a number of tracks ourselves in that we have a diplomatic track to forge, as the President said, a common response from the international community.
Our goal is to forge a secure and durable peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
The MTA's new chairman, Joseph Lhota, has tried to forge a personal relationship with Mr. Samuelsen.
Can Democratic leaders use the emotion tied to Kennedy's death to forge a compromise with Republicans?
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Winkler and De Niro hope to forge a magnet for sympathy and instead construct a vacuum.
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