These countries would need to improve their capacity to defend their interests in the WTO and to implement their commitments.

Developing countries had acquired greater leverage in WTO negotiations and increasingly used WTO rules to defend their interests.

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

Therefore, Governments would increasingly have to defend their investors' interests abroad while protecting themselves against claims filed by foreign investors domestically.

Yet no country can rely on soft power alone to defend its interests.

Aside from seeking to defend their own interests in the region, both countries understandably rejected the idea of US led regime change in Syria.

Japan, America and other traditional maritime countries must also once again treat sea power in Asia as a key component of their ability to defend their own national interests.

Institutions are legitimized in part by their effectiveness, and the EU must recover its authority to defend common interests and harmonize them with national concerns.

All of them have legitimate political and regional interests to promote and defend within the Security Council.

Weapons manufacturers and the telecommunications industry, with billions at stake in maintaining a hyped war on terror and their new global surveillance market, will deploy a lavishly financed army of lobbyists to defend their interests.

That means that both parties increasingly defend the interests of the rich, though Republicans do so slightly more than Democrats.

This rejection came about despite the summit be structured in such a way as to promote and defend those interests.

Afghanistan is of vital strategic interest to China, yet it never crossed its leaders minds to defend those interests through war.

The US will need to defend its allies and interests by pushing back, but with actions modulated to limit Chinese concerns.

Counter intuitively, however, the excessive number of Europeans actually diminishes Europe s influence, because they usually defend national interests, which are often divergent.

Young men and women fought to defend their country.

If the veto must be maintained in the Security Council because of interests, we ask that Africa also have that right, because, like any other regional group, that continent has many interests to defend.

Many brave Iranians were prepared to risk their lives to defend their beliefs.

Their instinct (and their bureaucratic interest) is to defend their countries national champion bank(s) abroad.

While this helps them to defend their own interests more effectively, it also allows them to play a much more active role in international crisis management, such as the protection of civilians in Libya in 2011.

You defend them in this life but who will defend them against God on the Day of Judgment and who will be their attorney ?

You defend them in this life but who will defend them against God on the Day of Judgment and who will be their attorney ?

Some French see the EU as a community where national interests inexorably converge. At the other extreme is the Gaullist belief that the EU is nothing more than a power multiplier for France to defend its own national interests.

The Youth Act will ultimately serve to protect and defend the rights and interests of the younger generation as it promotes and incorporates an effective delivery system.

Sufis trying to defend their house of worship started fighting back as well.

The two try to defend users freedom and their right to be heard.

They had no trade unions that could represent them and defend their rights.

Perhaps more importantly, they also confirmed that the US military is not too distracted by its Iraqi and Afghan engagements to defend America s vital national interests in Asia.

It is not in their interests , nor in their power .

It is not in their interests , nor in their power .

The situation of indigenous persons who defend their communities' human rights is especially worrisome.

States must protect and defend their citizens against terrorist acts by all necessary means.

Defend yourselves.

Defend yourself.

Their interests go beyond purely economic aspects, however.

Angered and alarmed by these developments, Arab women have been forced to defend their rights.

I believe that Poles will once again defend their right to be treated with dignity.

People in custody are too weak to defend themselves thus their safety and security is the responsibility of their society.

Representatives voted on behalf of their districts powerful interests.

Both political parties serve their rich campaign contributors, while proclaiming that they defend the middle class.

Despite their common geography, history, and economic interests, their strategic trajectories will diverge.

Their success in so many environments has been attributed to their social organisation and their ability to modify habitats, tap resources, and defend themselves.

Puerto Rican soldiers had given their lives in order to defend the democracy, freedom and interests of the United States, yet the island's development was being hindered because its inhabitants were not represented in Congress or the Senate and were not permitted to vote in Presidential elections.

Israel has the right to defend itself including by killing children in their homes with chemical weapons.

Let us hope that their oaths to defend and uphold the Constitution are more than just words.