" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

Louis A. Landa presents Swift ’ s A Modest Proposal as a critique of the popular and unjustified maxim of mercantilism in the 18th century that " people are the riches of a nation ".

Werner E. Lemke and Kathleen O ’ Connor point out “ Lamentations is probably the work of a survivor ( or survivors ) of the nation ’ s destruction who poured out sorrow, anger and dismay after the city ’ s traumatic defeat and occupation by the Babylonians.

Obadiah describes an encounter with God who addresses Edom ’ s arrogance and charges them for their violent actions against their brother nation, the House of Jacob.

This coming judgment will affect all of the nations, including the author ’ s own nation of Judah where God is understood to reside.

As of 2004, the nation ’ s railway system consisted of a state-controlled 660 km section of a 1, 146 km narrow gauge railroad that ran north from Abidjan through Bouaké and Ferkéssédougou to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

* A. M. Rosenthal ( 1949 ), former executive editor of The New York Times who championed the publication of the Pentagon Papers ; Pulitzer prize winning journalist expelled from Poland in 1959 for his reporting on the nation ’ s government and society

He maintained prosperity, balanced the budget, promoted technological innovation, facilitated ( if reluctantly ) the civil rights movement and warned, in the most memorable farewell address since Washington ’ s, of a “ military-industrial complex ” that could endanger the nation ’ s liberties.

While his audience was awaiting developments in the Lindbergh kidnapping, Block played records and created the illusion that he was broadcasting from a ballroom, with the nation ’ s top dance bands performing live.

Financial services, the bulk of the services sector, are principally rendered by the National Bank of Eritrea ( the nation ’ s central bank ), the Commercial Bank of Eritrea, the Housing and Commerce Bank of Eritrea, the Agricultural and Industrial Bank of Eritrea, the Eritrean Investment and Development Bank, and the National Insurance Corporation of Eritrea, all majority owned by the government and ruling party.

* the sport ’ s governing body in the appropriate nation, or the ICC itself, recognises the match as first-class.

It ’ s arguably our nation ’ s biggest industry.

He described a nation of people who are harder-working, more virtuous – yes, more virtuous, because the market punishes immorality – and more hopeful about the future than they ’ ve ever been in their history.

The competing parties ’ war propaganda aimed to prove their support of democracy and liberty and their ability to represent the whole Finnish nation.

Only 2. 5 % of Italy ’ s population could speak the Italian standardized language properly when the nation unified in 1861.

The Christian Petersen Art Museum in Morrill Hall is named for the nation ’ s first permanent campus artist-in-residence, Christian Petersen, who sculpted and taught at Iowa State from 1934 through 1955, and is considered the founding artist of the Art on Campus Collection.

Gandhi established closer relations with the Soviet Union, depending on that nation for support in India ’ s long-standing conflict with Pakistan.

As the influential result of his position as the chief cartoon artist for Punch ( published 1841 – 1992, 1996 – 2002 ), John Tenniel, through satirical, often radical and at times vitriolic images of the world, for five decades was and remained Great Britain ’ s steadfast social witness to the sweeping national changes in that nation ’ s moment of political and social reform.

New Hampshire again boasts the nation ’ s lowest murder rate and the second-lowest rates for aggravated assault, according to CQ Press.

As Jefferson ’ s Secretary of State ( 1801 – 1809 ), Madison supervised the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the nation ’ s size.

The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation ( s ) over a period of about a month ; this phase is often called the World Cup Finals.

A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host nation ( s ).

Sometimes this practice is taken to excess, and the head of state begins to believe that he is the only symbol of the nation, resulting in the emergence of a personality cult where the image of the head of state is the only visual representation of the country, surpassing other symbols such as the flag, constitution, founding father ( s ) etc.

The number of B channels for PRI varies according to the nation: in North America and Japan it is 23B + 1D, with an aggregate bit rate of 1. 544 Mbit / s ( T1 ); in Europe, India and Australia it is 30B + 1D, with an aggregate bit rate of 2. 048 Mbit / s ( E1 ).

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

As colonies gained independence from Britain, in most cases the newly independent countries adopted English common law precedent as of the date of independence as the default law to carry forward into the new nation, to the extent not explicitly rejected by the newly freed colony's founding documents or government.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase " Four score and seven years ago ," referring to the Declaration of Independence during the American Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners ( and the nation ) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The Nazism ideology referred to Henry as a founding father of the German nation, fighting both the Latin Western Franks and the Slavic tribes of the East, thereby a precursor of the German Drang nach Osten.

Monroe supported the founding of colonies in Africa for free African Americans that would eventually form the nation of Liberia, whose capital, Monrovia, is named in his honor.

From the founding of Liberia, Europeans had commercial contacts with the nation.

Many see her as the founding figure of the Mexican nation.

The nation is currently actively engaging with regional neighbors in Southeast Asia through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( as a founding member ) with the intention of strengthening regional harmony, stability, and prosperity.

According to the genesis chronicle of the majority Sinhala people, the Mahavamsa (" Great Chronicle "), written in 5th century CE, the Pulindas believed to refer to Veddas are descended from Prince Vijaya ( 6th-5th century BC ), the founding father of the Sinhalese nation, through Kuveni, a woman of the indigenous Yakkha clan whom he had espoused.

* Pho Khun Si Indrathit becomes the first king of the Sukhothai kingdom, marking the founding of the modern Thai nation.

Lafayette County was formed on October 15, 1827 and named in honor of Marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero and American general who fought during the American Revolutionary War and who toured the US in 1824 / 25 upon the 50th anniversary of the founding of the nation.

The discovery of a Northwest Passage would result in great wealth for the founding nation because it would be able to directly import goods from the Asian markets while controlling the passage itself.

Today it is generally considered the founding document of New Zealand as a nation.

" Peter Max Paints America is based on works of art commissioned by ASEA of Sweden on the 200th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, in sincere recognition of the historic bonds of friendship between the people of Sweden and the people of the United States, recalling that Sweden was one of the first countries to extend its hand in friendship to the new nation.

While opponents have argued that reactionary nationalism is evidence of Chinese insecurity or immaturity and that it is both unnecessary and embarrassing to a powerful nation, Chinese nationalists assert that Chinese nationalism was in many ways a result of Western imperialism and is fundamental to the founding of a modern Chinese state that is free from foreign domination.

Capa toured Israel after its founding, and supplied the copious photographs for a book on the new nation written by Irwin Shaw, Report on Israel.

An African socialist, he is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation.

Many of the Afrikaner population view him as the founding father of their nation.

The predominant theme in the remaining stanzas is the establishment of a sovereign and free nation in the Land of Israel, a hope largely seen as fulfilled with the founding of the State of Israel.

Black students were admitted immediately after the college's 1844 founding, and the College became the second school in the nation to grant four-year liberal arts degrees to women.