On New Year's Eve, Putin thanked Russia's citizens for their willingness to stand for the country's interests.

On New Year's Eve, Putin thanked the citizens of the Russian Federation for their willingness to stand for the country's interests.

It verges on slavery when children are locked up without proper lighting, food, and healthcare.

But collective energy security requires increasing the EU s ability to face and face down external energy challenges.

Help me to become an elected member of the Bundestag where I will be advocate the interests of our city.

But a preliminary comparison between Europe s largest economy, Germany, and the US suggests that the former is better equipped to hold its own in the age of globalization.

Since then, Wu has continued to help ordinary people defend their rights.

Do you think they're there pursuing their self interest?

Just as parents are expected to provide for the interests of their own children, rather than for the interests of strangers, in accepting the office of president of the United States, George W. Bush assumed a specific role that makes it his duty to protect and further the interests of Americans.

The League would be asking the US to live up to its values and pursue its interests, while at the same time fulfilling its own responsibility as a regional organization.

Iran defended its own interests and those of the Shia minority in the west of the country.

A military build up will enable Moscow to effectively advance national interests and break new ground in global affairs.

No European country not even the Big Three (France, Great Britain, and Germany) can any longer assert its central foreign policy interests alone, outside of the common European framework.

She puts her own interests above everything else.

We do not have to be women to stand up women's rights, black to stand up for black rights, or Muslim to stand up for Muslim rights.

And therefore they could fight in a male dominated world, very easily, and not feel very shy about it.

Younger Iranians have a particular economic concern as well.

A man should be independent he has his own masculine interests.

We have to stand up for minority rights.

We must stand up for our rights.

And many of the country s elected officials have a stake in those exports.

This act is of course not a rational one, because Kazakhstan has nothing to do with it the agreements were made by the previous government, and the issue is not about water or borders, but about their readiness to take a stand for their interests in cases where their government is not performing its function, delaying the resolution of a problem.

They are good words that need to be defended.

We must always stand up for our rights.

Germany's economic interests are to a certain extent different from those of the other major powers and therefore Germany must protect its interests.

Will it turn from promoting democracy to a narrow realist view of its interests?

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Instead, it bullies others to get its way, wrongly identifying its narrow interests as a creditor with those of the system as a whole.

Being richer, they can provide more financial support to parties and politicians who will defend their interests than the young, who might want to push for pension reform.

In due course, they may well be able to become more unified on the political front if they do not push their disagreements too aggressively.

Germany has long seen its strategic interests from within the framework of an integrated EU.

In light of America s impending withdrawal, the regional powers are reassessing their interests and objectives.

Stop being something that Trump wants to grab and stand up.

In this situation, Central European countries must cooperate to defend their own interests, as well as their dream of a common Europe.

The same applies to the southern Caucasus and Central Asia, where Europe, with the approval of the smaller supplier countries there, should firmly pursue its energy interests and assert itself vis à vis Russia, as well as to Ukraine, where Europe should also become seriously involved.

Agitators for reform will continue to push.

I will stand with women s rights until my death.

The negotiations on the so called 'Agenda 2000' were marked by squabbling between the member states defending their vested interests.

The interests of the West and Nigeria repeatedly clashed, but Nigeria always stood its ground.

The UK is simply being smart when it promotes its own interests by cooperating with China.

Today, whether it is Arunachal Pradesh or Taiwan or the Senkaku Islands or even the Spratlys, China is dangling the threat of force to assert its claims.

Second, it is never more important for a democracy to follow its procedures and uphold its principles than in an armed conflict involving non democracies.

But the government balked at arguing for it on political grounds.

Here, too, Europe must demonstrate much greater awareness of the geopolitical risks and its own best interests.

A country can compel others to advance its interests in three main ways through coercion, payment, or attraction.