You know, in some circles, even in my own country now, compromise is considered a bad thing.
For that to not be allowed in the United Kingdom, to be prosecuted in my own country, is an absolute outrage.
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"To be told in my own country I can't use a word in the English dictionary - it's nonsense, " said Mr McColghan.
When I meet families made homeless by war, when I meet people who are hungry, I remember my own country after the war.
As a native New Englander, serving in the Deep South was a unique opportunity to experience a totally new culture in my own country.
This country, like my own country, is blessed with diversity.
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This was the forgotten first chapter of my own country's founding by Europeans, a chapter mysteriously redacted from the textbooks of my youth and, as far as I knew, from national memory.
He wrote that he has been "accused of bearing allegiance to our neighbouring nation than my own country - this even though I am an Indian whose father fought for the freedom of India".
If their own laws and officials cannot deliver to pribumis greater equity, then the logic behind wresting equity by force becomes unreasonably attractive: I cannot be as rich as you, even in my own country.
And that's not a laughing matter, no matter how alien that makes me feel in my own home country.
Unfortunately, in my own home country, Zambia, there are too many factors militating against provision of quality education to every child.
Seeing their early struggles for acceptance and respect as immigrants to this country, and my own attempts to navigate the two worlds, was not always easy.
That means the world to my own community, but all across the country there are Angies who need help.
But let me offer a few brief reflections based on my own experiences and the experiences of our country over the last two centuries.
My own view is that wiring up the country (either country, any country in fact) for the current 100 Mbit broadband cable systems would be a gross waste of money.
Through speeches and workshops around the country, I use my own story of growing up with exceptional teachers to stress the importance of using technology and creative problem solving skills to develop solutions for students.
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In my own opinion, I truly believe that the country has had a huge wake-up call as regards to the have-now pay later attitude that many people have adopted as the norm.
Whenever Father acquired a new book on our country the country my parents had fled, the country I had never seen, yet continued to think of as my own he would immediately finger the index pages.
For Six years I lectured about my own white-collar crime at universities across the country.
But I have just flown across the greatest country that ever was, in my own small airplane, and I feel insanely happy.
My own mistake motivated me to compile this list of country by country observations, that will hopefully help others when they do business with people from other countries.
"I think that it's been pretty clear from the response that the remarks made were unacceptable to a wide range of people and my own experience of talking to businesses and across the country is it was a generally felt view that they were unacceptable, " she said.
Now I'm on my own bike team, the first paracycle team in the country.
I'm genuinely honored that he's given up his own presidential aspirations to serve the country as my Chief of Staff.
Experiencing a new country and culture first-hand and having my own beliefs challenged was a real awakening for me, and I wanted share that experience with as many people as possible.
As I reflect on this, I see how the American story is in many ways my story -- a country still trying to negotiate its own identity, caught between the paradise of its founding ideals and the realities of its history, trying to figure it out, trying to "become" even today -- the word hope as fresh on our tongues as it ever was.
As for my own personal beliefs, I identify most strongly with conservatives in this country.
But when I think about my own educational career, and what a difference it made in my own life, I want that for every single student in this country.
To get a bit ahead of the argument, my own view of immigration begins with the question: To whom does a country belong?
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