My country lost millions of its citizens in the war.

No one wants the EU to fail because of its citizens disaffection.

But remember that this nation is too precious to be the subject of our experiments and games!

In Syria, Putin is stuck standing behind Assad as he slaughters his citizens.

An economy that, year after year, leaves most of its citizens worse off is not a success.

A country emerging from conflict needs the involvement of its citizen and every sector of its society.

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras must convince his countrymen that he is serious about implementing them.

Deng Xiaoping warned his compatriots to eschew external adventures that might jeopardize internal development.

But no regime has ever used its citizens so deliberately as tools to arouse world sympathy, as hostages to modern sensitivities.

First, in international conflicts, the defending army must always protect the lives of its citizens, not just property interests.

Having promised that rapid consolidation would be good for growth, and having delivered recession, the European Union has disappointed its citizens.

Instead, the Saharan people had seen their country invaded by Morocco, their civilians brutally killed and their families separated for 30 years.

The same is true for the democratization of the EU and thus for its greater proximity to, and acceptance by, ordinary citizens.

In a way, Putin succeeded twice he looked transparent to the West and menacing to most of his own citizens.

The SaudiCables reveal that the absolute monarchy, which micro manages its citizens daily lives, has stretched its arms way beyond its borders.

And we need to do so quickly if the EU is to deliver on its citizens expectations.

The Soviet and other top heavy regimes increasingly found themselves losing the battle of ideas and, as a result, the support of their own citizens.

The Arab League slapped Syria on the wrist today for killing more than 3,000 of its citizens by suspending its membership from the pan Arab group, starting on Wednesday.

Decades of media control over Syria have helped the regime silence its people and maintain international legitimacy.

In June, Obama announced that Assad s regime had used chemical weapons against its own population and had thus crossed his administration s red line.

Iraq used them against Iran in the 1980 s, Egypt in Yemen in the 1960 s, and Iraq against its own Kurds.

And the wrangling in the run up to and in Brussels itself surely did not contribute to the EU s popularity among its citizens.

In this day and age we can no longer afford to stand back if a country fails to protect its citizens against grave human rights abuses.

Putin, after more than a decade in power, has lost the support of his own, usually quiescent citizens, who have had rather limited experience with democracy.

So the Kremlin blinds its citizens with rosy scenarios, while the Internet over dramatizes reality.

No country qualifies as a full liberal democracy that is, as a political system that combines free and fair elections with constitutional protections of individual rights for all its citizens.

After this hypothetical region succeeds in gaining independence, Mr. Yokota asked how the courts of this new country could punish the soldiers of the other country for violations against its citizens.

He was an icon among his fellow countrymen indeed, for his 70th birthday, the largest newspaper in Poland organized a celebration during which they crowned him (with a crown of laurel leaves, of course) the King of Europe.

Matthias Jakob Schleiden (5 April 1804 23 June 1881) was a German botanist and co founder of the cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow.

America s response shows, however, that integration cannot be viewed as a one way street. In addition to imposing demands and constraints on minorities to join the mainstream, society must be willing to demand of itself that it make room for all its citizens.

Unless a regime is willing to start machine gunning its citizens, peaceful, steady, long term disruption of business as usual always works.

In a way, Putin succeeded twice he looked transparent to the West and menacing to most of his own citizens.

Thousands of his countrymen had written letters petitioning for his release, at a time when declaring solidarity with Czechoslovakia s most famous dissident was a clear and dangerous act of civil disobedience.

The American comedian Jimmy Kimmel recently poked fun at his compatriots lack of fiscal knowledge by asking pedestrians on Hollywood Boulevard what they thought of Obama s decision to pardon the sequester and send it to Portugal.

The regime in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea remained one of the most oppressive in the world, denying its citizens the most basic freedoms of religion, conscience, speech, assembly and association.

Indeed, even South African president Thabo Mbeki, who, despite an outcry from many of his citizens, has supported Mugabe, felt compelled to label it a cause for serious concern.

In order to provide for a standing arrangement to deal with such situations, should they arise in the future, UNMEE is approaching the parties with a proposal for a framework of standard procedures for the repatriation of the remains of each other's nationals to their respective countries.

We call upon this Council to look beyond the diversion and witness the larger picture a tiny country, marred by terrorism, mobilizing its citizenry and political will to take a bold step for peace in the region.

Other Al Qaeda thinkers have expressed admiration for the ability of young men like Wael Ghonim to mobilize thousands of his fellow Egyptians by conveying his sincere desire for change and love of country.

According to the article, while Serbia arranged a special flight to evacuate its citizens, Borche Stamov, the spokesman of the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when asked about his compatriots, just stated Most of the foreigners already left Syria, so probably the Macedonians are among them.

In the past, a poor African might have looked at his compatriots and resented their wealth now, both he and his better off compatriots look at the rich world and resent the huge income gaps they see.

His country had adopted a Comprehensive Strategy to Combat Poverty aimed at consolidating peace and national unity through sustainable improvement of the living conditions of its most vulnerable citizens and fostering participation in the social and economic development process.

During the pre interim and interim periods, all United Nations activity in the Sudan will be aimed at supporting the Sudanese people in establishing a peaceful and democratic Sudan where all citizens will live in conditions of greater dignity and security.

No minority is, after all, homogenous, which was demonstrated by the fact that the person who alerted the police was a compatriot of the killer and from the same camp of refugees.

Of course, with the Syrian regime s massacres of its own citizens, some in Israel say that the suffering of Gaza s inhabitants pales in comparison, and thus fails to attract the same sympathy as it did last year.