Our Debt to Stalingrad

Thus, we owe a debt to that brotherly republic.

We owe this to the dead and to the survivors.

That is an important responsibility we owe to the people we serve.

Rather, the rich owe their wealth solely to their own luck and effort.

We owe it to them and to our successors to take this responsibility seriously.

More recklessly, after securing the release of the trawler, China demanded an apology from Japan.

We owe that largely to Jan Egeland.

They owe us, to put a food ambassador in every major supermarket.

We are their debtors. And we cannot repay what we owe to them.

We owe those developments to the generosity of the international community and our bilateral friends.

On December 8, Italy demanded an apology and, on December 11, followed up this demand with another for financial and strategic compensation.

We owe it not only to the founders of the United Nations but also to our children and to their children.

We are very much indebted to them for their solidarity, and wish to convey here our deepest and most heartfelt thanks.

We owe that success to the excellent cooperation between MINUSTAH and the National Police.

We owe him our deepest gratitude and unreserved support in these trying times.

We owe it to the international community to act in a spirit of compromise and consolidation and to move beyond narrow national views and interests.

We owe that boy in Darfur more better performance a stronger connection between our declarations and our actions.

That fact inevitably hinders the development process and increases the vulnerability of youth to other kinds of social and political problems, including drug addiction and trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and recruitment into armed conflicts.

We are all eternally indebted to those who perished in the just fight for freedom and human dignity.

A popular Kuwaiti television programme has upset some Moroccan viewers, who say it depicts Moroccans in a negative light. The cartoon, called Bu Qutada wa Bu Nabeel, portrays Morocco as corrupt and its women as greedy, as they try to entrap the Kuwaiti male characters into marrying them. The show has created a rift between Morocco and Kuwait, and an online spat, prompting a quick apology from Al Watan for the offending cartoons, reports Al Arabiya.

The first is that we all owe at least some of our success to others, given the public goods that society provides.

We are the heirs to their accomplishments. We are their debtors.

We owe it to those we serve to ensure that our management, oversight and accountability systems are of the highest possible calibre.

Successful political transitions are also helped if more and more citizens come to feel that they own the protests and the resulting transition.

The people of the Middle East deserve peace and justice, and we in the international community owe them our strong leadership and support.

In response, Obama acknowledged that climate change is a threat to our children s future, and we owe it to them to do something about it.

For years, his backbench members of parliament kept quiet because they knew that they owed their seats, and their majority, to him.

Confronted with the spread of missile technology, and unpredictable regimes and leaders, we owe it to our populations to complement our deterrence capabilities with an effective missile defense capability.

Indeed, South Korean President Lee Myung bak has used the occasion to demand a formal apology for the war from the Japanese emperor, and financial compensation for Korean women who were forced to serve Japanese soldiers in military brothels during the war.

And I think we owe a great debt of gratitude to GPHIN and to Ron St. John, who I hope is in the audience some place over there who's the founder of GPHIN.

We owe it to workers victimized by this recession to reinvent finance so that it works to enrich the real economy, instead of enriching only the financiers.

And it s not as though Congressional Republicans think they owe enough to Simpson for him to swing a single vote in either chamber of the legislature.

We owe that to the millions of men, women and children who suffer from diseases that could be cured, from conflicts that could be prevented and from hunger that could be alleviated.

One group of members of the fans organisation Camisa 12 protested outside the Corinthians training ground, demanding both an apology and a retraction by the player. The group carried banners with the slogans No fags allowed and This is a man s place .

Third, Solidarity was an institution indeed, a unique one given the conditions under which we lived, and it is to its special institutional form that we owe our ultimate victory.

We owe it to our children to consecrate every iota of energy and effort we possess to bequeath a world devoid of injustice, prejudice, hatred, extremism, subjugation, mistrust and discrimination of all kinds.

At the end of the Second World War, he went to Germany as a journalist, and it is to him that we owe the retrieving of Goethe's and Schiller's coffins, which had disappeared from Weimar in 1943 44.

In an earlier post I brought up Libyano's post about medicine and ethics in Libya, and while there are still many things left to be desired on this subject I owe a big apology to many Libyan doctors for what could be counted as my harsh words here

They believe that they owe their status purely to merit, not to the collective efforts state funded schools, universities, etc. that enabled them to realize their potential.

Above all, however, we owe the holding of this meeting to Secretary General Kofi Annan, who two years ago expressed his belief that the United Nations was at a critical juncture and initiated steps to see it through this phase.

If all of us are therefore guilty, so to speak, should it not then be easy for us each Member State to visit the transgressions of its own personnel openly, with some measure of honesty and humility?

So Cory Aquino's death has, in many ways, orphaned the Filipino nation. We who are left behind owe her the duty of safeguarding her legacy of freedom and of enriching it with social justice and unity in nation building. For until the very end of her battle with cancer, she continued to speak out for individual transformation and, on the part of those elected to lead us, for their selfless stewardship.

Obviously in schools we owe it to them to make sure those 180 days of the year, from that little precious age of four, til 18, 20, 24, whatever, they need to be cooked proper, fresh food from local growers on site. OK?

The first is that we all owe at least some of our success to others, given the public goods that society provides. This calls for more modesty and restraint in determining the highest salaries, not for moral reasons but for the sustainability of the system.