And he has shown himself to be willing to make very tough decisions in the interest of Iraqi nationalism even if they cause problems with his neighbor.
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Even if popular nationalism in China so far appears in check (except online), there are concerns in Asia that China's leadership is becoming more assertive over its far-flung maritime interests.
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Vladimir Meciar, their prime minister from 1994 to 1998, was wrecking Slovakia's reputation abroad, even if his nationalism and reckless public spending kept him popular with some voters at home.
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Hadep's travails suggest that the authorities take a dim view of even the mildest form of Kurdish nationalism.
The first is the lingering nationalism that affects some even in the City.
In this case, though, Europe has expressed serious concern over moves by the new Congress and president to nudge economic nationalism onto the agenda, even as they have been surprisingly willing to take Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner by his word when he tells them not to worry.
But when nationalism is on the march, even commercial logic gets trampled underfoot.
Why so many Tamils are willing to be led by an apparent madman may perhaps be explained by their deep and unshifting suspicion of the Sinhalese, even though Mrs Kumaratunga has long rejected Sinhala nationalism.
This is a short-sighted, even dangerous, provocation at a time of rising nationalism in the region, fuelled by maritime disputes between Japan, China (see article) and South Korea over specks of rock.
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The prime minister may now even have a chance to tackle the problem of Basque nationalism.
He is part of the 1968 student generation, which deplored nationalism and had doubts about reuniting Germany, even when unity finally came in 1990.
They return home with a burning nationalism that propels people like the Sumers to beget even more sons.
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Even Chinese companies, traditionally more willing to play along with resource nationalism in Latin America, are balking.
Neither should there be any illusion that a disarmament programme, even if eventually carried out, would spell the end of armed Albanian nationalism, either in Macedonia or in other bits of the southern Balkans.
For all the economic progress, all sorts of tensions social, cultural, demographic, even religious haunt the regime and help explain why it resorts to nationalism so often.
Even at the best of times, Britons tend to be uncomfortable with patriotism, finding it hard to disentangle from nationalism and xenophobia.
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