Greater security has helped to bring a revival of economic growth and national self-confidence.
Hence national self-sufficiency is, then and now, pointless and irrelevant to any consuming nation's security.
National self-restraint may apply in England - there is no such code of conduct in the internet.
Unlike other peoples craving national self-determination after the first world war, the Jews were dispersed and had no territorial base.
This could be a basis for national self-awareness and even for pride in the country's tradition of freedom and tolerance.
When the threat arises that a particular picture might leave the country, national self-esteem demands that it should be saved.
There is another reason to emphasise national self-sufficiency, which often remains unstated.
National self-confidence grew, and with it a thirst for home-grown movies.
The Minister for Sport Rhodri Glyn Thomas described the triumph as a "tremendous result for Wales" and said it would be a "real boost to our national self-confidence".
The second is the illusion of national self-containment, the belief that, since the Norman Conquest, English experience has unfolded within its own unique parameters, separating it radically from the continent.
He addresses such questions as: May a State ever respond to a computer network attack by exercising a right of national self-defense? and: Must attacks adhere to the principle of proportionality?
Miners working the harsh terrain of the Atacama are part of the national self-image in a country that thinks of itself as having snatched prosperity from adversity, whether earthquakes or mining accidents.
We must also stress the type of Scotland we seek - a modern country of enterprise and opportunity in which an imaginative, entrepreneurial Scotland contributes to the growth of national wealth and national self confidence, and in which we have the best public services freely available to all.
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"At home his vision and leadership restored national self-confidence and brought some significant changes to U.S. politics, while abroad the negotiation of arms control agreements in his second term and his statesman-like pursuit of more stable relations with the Soviet Union helped bring about the end of the Cold War, " a statement from Blair's office said.
Of course at bottom, we are talking about national interests and self-interest.
He told the BBC that questions of national sovereignty and self-government were just as important and the EU needed a "new, looser template of membership", based around trade and political co-operation, that could appeal to the UK and other like-minded countries.
In return, he needs to show that he really does have at heart the national interest rather than self-aggrandisement or self-enrichment.
Those who have acted in their national short-term self-interest will find that their actions do not serve their long-term interests in a climate- and resource-constrained world.
In the US, that includes 80% of small businesses, says the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) - and that same segment is growing faster than any other in the US economy.
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Nearly 60% of individuals who have a home office do not take the home-office deduction, according to a 2008 survey of 156 members of the National Association for the Self-Employed, a Washington D.
The Brazilian experience stands out for the grandiosity of its act, which was not just the final chapter of a historical process but was also integrated to a development and self-affirming national strategy.
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Thanks to Shift Your Shopping and a number of other national and local initiatives aimed at raising consumer awareness to shop at independent retailers, those surveyed by national nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) outperformed the industry, reporting an average increase in holiday sales of 6.7% in 2011.
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One almost laughable example of lame self-regulation: the BrokerCheck Program, run by the National Association of Securities Dealers, the brokerage industry's self-regulator.
An economy until recently dependent on peasant farming in harsh latitudes has shaped a stoic national character and an appetite for self-improvement.
Co-author Dr Benjamin Blaiszik, now at Argonne National Laboratory, explained that the self-healing circuitry could find uses in a military setting where it would be exposed to extreme stresses or in long-term space applications.
If you're one of the nine million people who won the tax-version of the national lottery and received your own self-assessment pack from Hector (or his replacement, Mrs Doyle), you'll be wondering what to do with your prize.
Niagara is constantly reinvented, and if nations can be said to have national talents, America's is self-invention.
This idea has already been adopted by the National Association of Securities Dealers and other self-regulating bodies that govern Wall Street.
"They sound impressive when you first hear the numbers but when you begin to look at them, it's a very tiny scale that doesn't add up to much, " said Stacy Mitchell, senior researcher at the Institute for Local Self Reliance, a nonprofit national research organization.
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