The girl is lonely.

Sami felt lonely.

Sami feels alone.

They regarded the economic risks as unimportant relative to their agenda of political unification.

Throughout PalFest there was a strong sense of solidarity between the Palestinians and Egyptians.

On 24 February, Nasser traveled to Damascus in a surprise visit to celebrate the union.

For decades, however, Europeans have been more concerned with unification and constitutional arrangements than with traditional diplomacy.

Are social critics right to worry about the atomized loneliness of big city life?

In 1847 it was one of the first cities in Italy where Risorgimento riots broke out.

At the same time, societies are increasingly fragmented, with perceived loneliness and stress related illnesses on the rise.

Working together with a genuine sense of regional community is a challenge in itself, but one well worth addressing.

Writing in Arabic, Sudanese blogger Ayman Hajj discusses his country's politics and why many Sudanese people are losing faith in unity.

And leadership starts from a realization that we must be prepared to trade disunity for unity, narrow interests for shared responsibility, and a bitter past in favour of a better future.

We marry, for example, with great pomp and ceremony and expense to signal our departure from a life of solitude and misery and loneliness to one of eternal bliss.

Since then, every year, pro Beijing political groups celebrate the reunification in the morning, while the pro democracy civic groups rally for democratic reform.

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Self determination should not be applicable in the case of any attempt aimed at the partial or total disruption of the national unity and the territorial integrity of a country.

To be sure, in the context of the dream of all Arabs being united and independent of foreign control, Al Jazeera is undeniably partial to Arab aspirations.

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Of course, specific priorities vary by country. For example, in aging societies, loneliness and long term health become particularly important.

The choice that the EU faces is the same in other parts of the world either integrate politically, or ease up on economic unification.

If you ever are feeling lonely, get a New York Times column, because you will get hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of emails. And the email I'm getting a lot today is about frustration.

After initially trying to delay reunification, France embraced it, in exchange for Germany s reaffirming its commitment to European unity and Franco German leadership of the European community.

The ambassadors play an important role in putting gender issues and emancipation policy on the agenda within their own Defence unit, and also through specific initiatives.

He was obsessed by the ideal of unity. And he wanted things to get done, uncompromised by political wheeling and dealing.

Indeed, the French Revolution s ideological commitment to unity was so strong that during parts of the nineteenth century, advocating federalism was a capital offense.

There was ample precedent for both American decisions, but some Chinese leaders expected Obama to be more sensitive to what China sees as its core interests in national unity.

Establishing the EEC had favorable economic effects, but, like the North American Free Trade Area, it did not reduce national identification or create a sense of political unity.

What we have witnessed since August is the latest battle in a Kulturkampf between Russia s liberal intelligentsia and conservative, often fundamentalist, believers in the unity of the Orthodox Church and the Kremlin.

They no longer believe in it because it is being portrayed as an impossibility to coexist with ethnic, religious and economic differences.

Three elections have produced some degree of legitimacy for the Shia dominated Iraqi government, but without a sense of community and effective institutions, elections merely create a tyranny of the majority.

RB Yeah. No, I put on my oxygen mask and stood on top of the balloon, with my parachute, looking at the swirling clouds below, trying to pluck up my courage to jump into the North Sea, which and it was a very, very, very lonely few moments.

The pro euro politicians ignored economists warnings that imposing a single currency on a dozen heterogeneous countries was bound to create serious economic problems. They regarded the economic risks as unimportant relative to their agenda of political unification.

These ancestral homelands exercised a hold on Turkish imaginations, but today it is business opportunities, energy resources, and other practical matters rather than ethnic unity that are creating a loose Turkic commonwealth.

We were freaks lobster claw boys and bearded ladies, oddities juggling depression and loneliness, playing solitaire, spin the bottle, trying to kiss the wounded parts of ourselves and heal, but at night, while the others slept, we kept walking the tightrope.

On the upside, the US could have a Sputnik moment a sense of national unity, common purpose, and shared sacrifice leads to structural reforms that focus on re aligning balance sheets over the medium term, enhancing job creation, and improving competitiveness.

The other thing is, that a piece of evidence is, is if you look at computerized text analysis of people who commit suicide, what you find there, and it's quite interesting, is use of the first person singular I, me, my, not we and us and the letters are less hopeless than they are really alone.

It is no coincidence that one of Putin s central aims is to disengage Germany from the West (or at least to neutralize it). But German Chancellor Angela Merkel has undergone a remarkable transformation.

What we have witnessed since August is the latest battle in a Kulturkampf between Russia s liberal intelligentsia and conservative, often fundamentalist, believers in the unity of the Orthodox Church and the Kremlin. By punishing Pussy Riot, Putin has staked his presidency on an eventual conservative victory.

It's not uncommon for people to feel like they're alone or that nobody understands them, but spoken word teaches that if you have the ability to express yourself and the courage to present those stories and opinions, you could be rewarded with a room full of your peers, or your community, who will listen.