"We are at a crossroads of a very, very historical nature, " Aso said.
The country is a crossroads, a place where East meets West and Africa shakes hands with Europe across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar.
Although suicide is no longer a crime in most countries, and suicides are no longer buried, as they once were, at a crossroads with a stake through their hearts, severe disapproval of suicide survives in a different form.
Instead, it feels like a powerful crossroads of a journey- where video makes the leap from being an entertainment medium to a much more important thing.
Yet this is not a crossroads of opportunity but a tipping point of waning support and political will to combat this awful disease.
Then there are the conservative Super PACs, such as American Crossroads, a group I helped organize.
The fabled "City of 333 Saints, " is an ancient desert crossroads and a historic seat of Islamic learning and faith.
On behalf of the great state of Illinois, crossroads of a nation, land of Lincoln, let me express my deepest gratitude for the privilege of addressing this convention.
Chang Mai straddles one of Asia's great crossroads - a southern spur of the Silk Road - fusing commerce and culture between points farther north and west in modern-day China, Laos and Myanmar.
The Rolling Stone received perhaps the most sustained standing ovation of the night as he joined his old pal toward the end of Crossroads, a two-night concert festival at Madison Square Garden that brought together a dazzling array of guitar masters, from John Mayer to Jeff Beck to legends like Buddy Guy, and of course, Clapton and Richards.
As an island nation, as a crossroads of people and commerce, as a democracy, your country is well positioned to promote global solidarity on many of the pressing issues of our times.
The ex-Soviet Caucasus countries, at a crossroads of Europe and Asia, are really a patch apart.
Five years later, the international community appears to be at a crossroads in the effort to rebuild Afghanistan as a democratic nation.
As a crossroads in the interconnected global economy, Dubai is a natural venue to bring together the diversity of voices and views at the WCIT.
If proven, they were denied a Christian burial - and instead carried to a crossroads in the dead of night and dumped in a pit, a wooden stake hammered through the body pinning it in place.
"This proposed takeover puts our mobile broadband future at a crossroads, " said Sprint's Vonya McCann in a statement.
And, says Mr Staunton, Clapton's experiences as a heroin addict led him to create the Crossroads Centre, a rehab unit in Antigua which opened in 1993.
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Mr Profumo himself is at a crossroads: some surmise that, if this merger is shelved, a career in politics will be his next step.
In many respects, we're at a crossroads in this country and will be next year when voters make a decision as to which direction we want to go in.
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It stands at a crossroads between an understandable desire to retain unionist power on the streets, at a time when it has been forfeited in government, and a lesser, but nonetheless significant role as the expression of the values, religious and moral, of the whole Protestant community.
In the early days of the republic, America was divided and at a crossroads, much as it is today, deeply divided over whether or not to build a real nation with a national economy and a national legal system.
It's a fascinating, clear-eyed look at a hazy crossroads in America's path toward becoming a world power.
Conservative super PAC, American Crossroads, has a new video -- or a new ad.
You go about a mile down the dirt road until you reach a crossroads.
As I said in the beginning of this post, America is at a crossroads.
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"The country is at a crossroads, " said Martin Kobler, U.N. special representative in Iraq.
For now, the point is that Japan has reached and passed through a crossroads.
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William Rosen, President and CEO at Arc Worldwide noted that advertisers are at a crossroads.
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With "30 Rock" leaving the air, the sitcom again finds itself at a crossroads.
But with the advent of automobiles, the centrality of horses diminished and Hermes faced a crossroads.
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