Tonight I ask Congress and the American people to focus the spirit of service and the resources of government on the needs of some of our most vulnerable citizens: boys and girls trying to grow up without guidance and attention, and children who have to go through a prison gate to be hugged by their mom or dad.
But my hope heading into the New Year is that we can continue to heed the message of the American people and hold to a spirit of common purpose in 2011 and beyond.
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Popular western books such as The Bookseller of Kabul and the Dressmaker of Khair Khana speak to the entrepreneurial spirit of the Afghan people, and later works such as The Beauty School of Kabul illustrate the value of vocational training for women provided by such groups.
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Government support for the Join In programme to build on the spirit of volunteering seen at the Games by getting people to volunteer at their local sports club.
Now we must confront the second problem -- to revive the spirit of citizenship, to marshal the compassion of our people to meet the continuing needs of our nation.
To her surprise, dozens of other people picked up on the spirit of her message and started to post their own pictures, holding similar signs to their chests that declared their intent to take to the streets on Jan. 25 last Friday in what turned out to be a momentous national day of rage.
Dominic Bradley of the SDLP said he wanted the spirit of the Games to continue to attract people to sport.
Usually we focus on what separates us, and I hope that a story like The Dressmaker and a competition like this one will remind people of the power of the human spirit, of the resilience and determination to go against the obstacles and defeat the odds.
But, again, I thought that all the leaders here came in a spirit of compromise, in a spirit of wanting to solve problems on behalf of the American people.
When I started out building the Robert Redd brand, I knew that I wanted to focus on the spirit of generosity as it related to bringing people pleasure.
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President Obama said he had been "greatly moved" by the "warmth and spirit, the strength and resolve of the Kenyan people" during several trips to his father's homeland and urged Kenyans to mark the 50th anniversary of independence by coming together.
Our role was to galvanize the entrepreneurial spirit of the Afghan people and supplement it with extensive training in technology and management.
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This nation has come to know the strong and resilient spirit of the people of the Gulf Coast.
Everyone knows that a lot of Division I recruits are jocks first and students second, which undercuts the spirit of what most people want college sports to be.
Anyway, into his third cocktail or so, this guy, in the spirit of taking advantage of people unsophisticated enough to borrow at those rates, wondered if consumers could be persuaded to borrow against their Visa at 19.6% and to then invest in a bank-managed mutual fund, yielding in the single digits.
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That spirit of valuing the people on the ground needed to be revived for Toyota's future, he said.
'Some people sleep right here on the floor, so they can get closer to the spirit of Mrs Borden, ' says official guide Will Clawson.
For more than a year now, people have shown a great spirit of solidarity to help those in need, but as the crisis goes on, everyone is running out of resources.
It would serve us well to revisit the myriad federal regulations that have stymied the innovative spirit of the American people.
Her unyielding vision for stronger neighborhoods has inspired people nationwide, and her compassion for the poor and the marginalized speaks to the depth of the human spirit.
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So being nice to your mom and dad and grandma and aunties and showing respect to people -- that's really important too, that's part of the Christmas spirit, don't you think?
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"We take great care to ensure that these sales respect both the spirit and the letter of the law while trying to make sure that ordinary people are not deprived of basic foodstuffs, " Cargill said in a statement.
Just to make it really easy let's suppose she begins telling people that she is enraged because the spirit of Jesus when he threw the money changers out of the temple has entered her body and now controls her.
With the spirit of bipartisanship almost extinct in Congress, a president must talk directly to the people who elect his opponents.
Their geographic isolation, their strong sense of community spirit and their steadfast attachment to the customs of their ancestors have enabled the Kihnu people to preserve their crafts and customs.
So when it comes to tackling the deficit, or it comes to growing the economy, when it comes to giving every American an opportunity to achieve their American Dream, the American people are demanding the same kind of resolve, the same kind of spirit of compromise, the same kind of problem solving that all these folks on stage have shown.
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"People have got to realise this mission will be different, " commented Steve Squyres, the lead scientist of the Opportunity and Spirit rovers put on the surface in 2004.
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