"At the ceremony tomorrow, I hope that sadness will blend with a wider sense of thanksgiving, " she said.

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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.

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For all the weakness of British banks, and the pressure they face to shrink - which saw Royal Bank of Scotland last week announcing a significant reduction in the size of its global investment banking operations - the City in a wider sense is still expanding.

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And that's why we need to bring in our vibrant voluntary sector to promote a much wider sense of responsibility for the challenges we face.

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It seems that the wider community and a sense of inclusion have become increasingly important in assessing the success of markets.

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Despite regularly hearing how mobile platforms fare within the smartphone space, we rarely get a sense of their place in the wider cellphone universe.

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The former often have supportive parents, wider social networks, university degrees and a greater sense of civic engagement.

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Thus the supply of credit, the money supply in the wider sense, is contracting and contracting at a fearful rate in some countries.

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There have been suggestions by myself and others, that a 16:9 iPad mini might make sense, and the wider screen of the iPhone 5 bears that out.

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"In the wider sense, we deprecate any forms of bigotry and sectarianism, we take a very strong view that these types of activity are unacceptable in a modern Scotland, " said Maxwell.

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