Certainly, Chávez seems to have seen it that way, as he consistently heckled Bush from afar.

And the European Central Bank has consistently shown that it will stand by the euro.

The ethos of Israel s far right consists in its insistence on blurring this distinction.

The EU must continue to insist that Russia ratify it, stipulating that Russia is already bound by its terms.

Determined to outbid Gorbachev as a reformer, he persuaded liberals to overcome their distrust of his provincial manners.

News broadcasts covered his continued insistence that he did not forge his ticket, along with the lottery center's claims that their rejection of the ticket was legitimate.

Hezbollah will keep insisting publicly that it yearns for another confrontation, shout defiance, and claim victory.

Western countries were sympathetic to the Chinese in their struggle, particularly in their stubborn defence of Shanghai, a city with a substantial number of foreigners.

The more choices for the definition of one s identity that a society offers and the more insistent it is on equality the more problematic the formation of identity in it becomes.

For years, China s ruling Communist Party has maintained that Taiwan is a core national interest, despite the reality that Taiwan has existed and functioned as a virtual state for 60 years.

No doubt Maliki s hard line stance on the need for a firm timetable for the withdrawal of US troops was critical to Iran s decision to throw its weight behind him.

And Kouchner himself, to the cynical amusement of the French press, has retreated radically from his insistence on an immediate intervention to protect refugees and internally displaced people in Darfur from further slaughter by the Sudanese government backed Janjawid militia.

In a recent speech to American war veterans in Kansas City, he defended his aim to stay the course in Iraq by pointing out the consequences of the American withdrawal from the war in Vietnam.

But the victory of June 1967 was not a license for Israel to set utterly unrealistic objectives for itself. Not every fantasy is a vision.

Keynes s main contribution to social democracy, however, does not lie in the specifics of policy, but in his insistence that the state as ultimate protector of the public good has a duty to supplement and regulate market forces.

The Fund was right to insist that Pakistan stand on its own feet economically, but, in early June, Shaikh will present his 2011 2012 budget, in which he wants to ease the burden on ordinary Pakistanis.

In the capitals of Latin America, Bush s visit has been interpreted as a reaction to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez s increasing influence and popularity in the region. Certainly, Chávez seems to have seen it that way, as he consistently heckled Bush from afar.

The meeting is a welcome development. But Abe comes into office with a reputation as a stronger nationalist than his predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, whose insistence on visiting the controversial Yasukuni Shrine (where Class A war criminals from World War II are buried) helped sour relations with China.