How can it be that people who are so negative about their common future as a nation go about confidently building their private futures within their families?

This is the Africa where people want to take charge of their own futures and their own destinies.

But their future is unknown, as is the fate of future disaster victims.

They all seemed full of optimism about their political and economic future.

What they need is a chance to shape their own futures.

They are going to think about it as this glorious instant when we laid down the very foundations of their lives, of their society, of their future.

These were destroyed with the Fukushima disaster, they don't have any perspectives for their future.

And these kids know that painless climate control may not be part of their future.

Today's Friday protests are dedicated to Syrian children and their future.

And the less convinced people are about their future, the more they tend to focus on their identity in a negative, defensive manner.

A whole generation felt that the moment had come when Hungarians could at last determine their own future.

Many an econometrician s career has been built on finding a clever way to establish the direction of causality.

The parties to the Bonn Agreement committed themselves to a political process that stressed the right of Afghans to determine freely their own political future.

Self determination was about allowing people to choose their own future without external influence.

The Conference emphasized the right of the Iraqi to freely determine their future as well as to exercise full control over their natural and financial resources.

They wanted to win, not just for the money or for the sake of their careers, but for the glory.

What people in Taiwan want is nothing more and nothing less than acknowledgement that they can decide their own future.

Most of all, sincere and committed support for the people who choose to build their own future and their own processes for reconciliation and healing is likewise needed.

The deterioration of the standard of living and unemployment have the effect that some of the citizens see their future existence in migrating to the countries of Western Europe.

In his view, a truly democratic country would recognize the islanders' right to determine their own future.

So what are the eurozone s heads of government waiting for? Are they reluctant to come clean with their people out of fear for their own political futures?

People desire less free time if they are uncertain of their economic future, or if their job is their central interest.

But one of the reasons that riot took place those riots, which went on for several days, took place was because the Kosovo people were disenfranchised from their own future.

We know, and I know from my own experience, that amazing things can happen, when individuals and societies come together to change their future.

On 30 January, Iraqis sent a loud and clear message that they will not be intimidated and that their future will not be dictated by terrorists and supporters of tyranny.

Reinforcing this, the typical career conscious economist has little incentive to deviate.

The real danger arises when everyone is convinced that investing in real estate is the best way to secure one s own future because house prices can only go up.

It permits self confident political leaders to take charge of their own future. It allows them to shape the narrative that underpins market confidence, rather than play catch up.

In Syria, a Libyan style military intervention is not warranted, but diplomatic intervention is needed to allow the country's people to determine its future.

She told Syria s business, military, and other leaders that they must recognize that their futures lie with the state, not with the regime.

Europe today is no longer seen as the key project in German politics in which people are willing to invest an essential part of their political capital and thus of their own future.

A successful transition would give real opportunities to a generation of unemployed young people, thus enabling them to take responsibility for their futures and the future of the region.

The Chinese Communist Party remains committed to forcing Taiwan to accept the idea of ultimate reunification, while the Taiwanese remain determined to decide their own future.

The result of all of this is likely to be a long term decline of US power and prosperity, because Americans no longer invest collectively in their common future.

As a professor, I find that my students often ask me for career advice with a different tone than in the past.

A referendum is the most civilised and fair way for the people to decide, many places do the same, Hong Kong independence is only one of the options. Why can t Hong Kong people discuss their own future?

However, the momentum needs to be maintained as, according to Peter Eigen, corruption robs children of their future, and it kills, but it is preventable .

Germans need to understand again as they did so well after 1945 that their future lies in their own hands, as citizens, rather than in the power of some remote State.

Peace and reconstruction of their economy, State and society were a challenge for Haitians, who should be given an opportunity to define their political future by their own means and in accordance with the popular will.

The relationship between young family members and their elders is very strong and allows young people to learn, from childhood on, valuable lessons about aspects of their background lessons that will help them in future.

He was confident that the people of Tokelau would achieve self determination, and his confidence was based on the fact that Tokelauans were making steady progress toward it and had a clear picture of their future.

The Personal and Professional Development (P2D) training has helped staff take more control of their futures but UNICEF should not abdicate its responsibility to promote staff development.

The economist Frank Ramsey, in a famous article published in 1928, said that people have a weakness of the imagination about how their actions today affect their own future.

Tens of thousands had already voted with their feet and now lived in refugee camps, in the unforgiving Sahara desert, while their future was held hostage by foreign Powers.

Millions of Arabs of my generation and younger would probably give the same answer if asked what should become of the men who controlled their present and sought to destroy their future.