Now she focuses her energy on using technology to eliminate waste in her country.
But first she has to resolve continuing strains in her country's relationship with Pakistan's powerful army.
What was important to her was that everyone in her country be better off in absolute terms.
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Gigi Ibrahim, a 24-year-old Egyptian activist and blogger, predicted Obama's words will have little impact in her country.
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Thatcher's case, its purpose was to push through a program she thought would make life better in her country.
In spite of being the richest woman in her country, Camargo stayed out of the limelight and little is known about her.
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Yet, as the violence in her country subsides, she doesn't seek retribution.
But with the media in her country tightly controlled, Mrs Aliyeva can still enjoy a high profile unperturbed, whatever the allegations swirling around her.
As ministers ate, Mr Duda turned to the Danish justice minister, Lene Espersen, and read out the number of abortions carried out in her country.
But she is aware of music's uncertain position in her country.
She knew that in her country women take great pride in their appearance and was convinced that there was a niche market she could "tap into".
Since she took over as president of the Congress party in the late 1990s, Ms. Gandhi, who became an Indian citizen in 1983, has played down her Italian roots, a politically-sensitive issue in her country of adoption.
During the bilateral meeting between Irina Bokova and Ms. Hasmik Poghosyan, Minister of culture of Armenia, the Minister emphasized the growing importance of intangible cultural heritage and the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions in her country.
For London-based IWPR Balkans online associate editor, Gordona Igric, the threat of arrest in her home country was real enough for her to go into self-imposed exile in Britain.
On the opposite side you find athletes like 19-year-old Kenyan Pamela Jelimo who, having been thrust into sporting superstardom in her home country after winning 800m gold in Beijing, had a tough winter and is only just beginning to get back into shape.
Lollobrigida, known in her native country as La Lolla, appeared in films including The World's Most Beautiful Woman (1955) and Come September (1961) but now works as a sculptor.
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In her more recent quest to become a lawyer in her native country, Sengupta lied to a British law chamber, saying she had been employed as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's office, prosecutors said.
If Taxpayer X, a dual citizen, never intended to hide her money or assets but simply held her assets in her home country of Country Y, she could be penalized on her entire net worth, provided she has no U.S. holdings.
The Paulsens, having recently completed a protracted renovation of their own, were reluctant to complain about the noise and the mess, and Walter, on the other side, was too nice or too busy, but when Patty finally came home, late in August, after her months in the country with Joey, she was practically unhinged in her dismay, going up and down the street, door to door, wild-eyed, to vilify Carol Monaghan.
She told CNN in September that she wanted to stay in her home country.
Ms Bernstein ducks this last topic, which is highly sensitive in her home country.
In her home country, there's new deals with McDonald's, Volkswagen and hair care giant Schwarzkopf.
Nora is known in her home country as brave heart, according to Aleksic.
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She was flown to Birmingham to receive treatment unavailable in her own country.
She is inspired by this example and wants to replicate and extend it among a wider community in her home country.
Aza claims she is a former Miss Ukraine, and before storming Hollywood, she was a broadcast news anchor in her home country.
Film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's triumph in becoming the first Pakistani to win an Oscar has been greeted with jubilation in her home country.
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Contemporary, political art like hers struggles to find a market in her home country -- another reason why she wants to be at Venice.
Safe in her new country, Boyle learned English, finished high school, and went on to college in Arizona, where she met her husband, Neal.
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