During his aggressive campaign to win his present position, Mr. Kennedy was vitriolic about this country's `` prestige '' abroad.

There may be petroleum deposits along the country's northern border with Chad ( Two billion barrels of oil are present in private estimates ).

In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.

The 1930s was an era of public works and reinvention of the Republic's economy, with the construction of the San Marino-Rimini railway that connected it to the Italian railway network and modernization of the country's infrastructures that paved the way to its present status as a major tourist destination.

At present, the country's Permanent Representative to the United Nations is Ambassador Afelee F. Pita.

* July 18 – The Australian version of Play School premieres on that country's ABC ( 1966 – present ).

Belize argued that Guatemala frustrated the country's legitimate aspirations to independence and that Guatemala was pushing an irrelevant claim and disguising its own colonial ambitions by trying to present the dispute as an effort to recover territory lost to a colonial power.

There was also a political element to his work, with Bowles commenting: " Instrumentalists and singers have come into being in lieu of chroniclers and poets, and even during the most recent chapter in the country's evolution – the war for independence and the setting up of the present regime – each phase of the struggle has been celebrated in song.

It originated in the country's present day state of Kerala during the 17th century and has developed over the years with improved looks, refined gestures and added themes besides more ornate singing and precise drumming.

On the other hand, certain delays, or the unwillingness of the local prosecution authorities to present a good extradition case before the court on behalf of the requesting state, may possibly result from the unwillingness of the country's executive to extradite.

The national flag of Pakistan () was adopted in its present form during a meeting of the Constituent Assembly on August 11, 1947, just three days before the country's independence, when it became the official flag of the Dominion of Pakistan .< ref name =" flagdate1 ">

Ghani called his decision to accept an invitation to present his ideas to Karzai an example of the importance of cooperation among Afghans and with the international community for the country's progress.

According to these two institutions, " bringing the net present value ( NPV ) of external public debt down to about 150 percent of a country's exports or 250 percent of a country's revenues " would help eliminating this " critical barrier to longer-term debt sustainability ".

In 1998, he publicly endorsed for Prime minister Navaz Sharif's decision for atomic tests ( See: Chagai-I and Chagai-II ) and was appointed as Prime Minister's Special Envoy ( PMSE ) to present his country's point of view, while backing the rationale of country's nuclear response.

The fact that the 1932 coup was staged against King Prajadhipok ( Rama VII ), uncle of the present King, and that he went into exile and eventually abdicated rather than accept the country's degeneration into a military dictatorship, is today seldom mentioned.

If plans do go ahead for the proposed Palapye International Airport, it will be the country's second international airport, after Sir Seretse Khama International Airport in Gaborone, easing the increased traffic that is currently being experienced at the present airport.

Luxembourg's grand duke has made modifications to his country's dynastic law that remain unknown to the public at present.

In France, he published his next work, on the National Uprising in Poland, in which he not only gave an appraisal of the 1831 insurrection, but also tried to present a programme for the continuation of the struggle for the country's freedom.

Ever since the fall of communism, the question of vetting ( lustracja ) has been a bone of contention between two political camps that both emerged from the former anti-communist opposition: The liberal wing-prominently represented by Adam Michnik and his Gazeta Wyborcza, the country's largest daily-call for a comprehensive reconciliation between former operatives and opponents of the People's Republic, by symbolically making a final stroke, or " thick line " ( gruba kreska ) separating the former, communist era from the present without seeking revenge.

* An alien who is present in a country unlawfully or without the country's authorization is known as an illegal alien of that country.

Lan represents the country's present, re-inventing herself and hoping to embrace the capitalist invasion.

However, Washington said, " It would have pleased me well, if Congress had been pleased to make such an important present to the brave fellows who have done so much for the security of their country's rights and establishment.

The country's boundaries were established by various international agreements, and, with the exception of the border with Israel, none was in dispute in early 1989.

Among other things, this treaty took away a large chunk of the Terai from Nepal and the rivers Mahakali and Mechi were fixed as the country's western and eastern boundaries.

The country's two international boundaries, with Colombia and Costa Rica, have been clearly demarcated, and in the late 1980s there were no outstanding disputes.

Like most of the country's boundaries with the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ), Oman, and the Republic of Yemen ( formerly two separate countries: the Yemen Arab Republic or North Yemen ; and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen or South Yemen ) are undefined, so the exact size of the country remains unknown.

The country's exact size is unknown because of disputed claims to several islands in the Persian Gulf, because of the lack of precise information on the size of many of these islands, and because most of its land boundaries, especially with Saudi Arabia, remain undemarcated.

Other topics include modifying the country's boundaries ( 1871, 1949 ), transfer payments ( 1907 ), temporary changes due to two world wars ( 1916, 1943 ), federal-provincial powers ( 1930, 1964 ), power over changes in the constitution ( No. 2 ), the creation of new social programs ( 1951, 1964 ), and mandatory retirement ages in the Canadian government ( 1960, 1965 )

About 5, 500 Tatars lived within the inter-war boundaries of Poland ( 1920 – 1939 ), and a Tatar cavalry unit had fought for the country's independence.

Although the state did not support an official school of Buddhism, it did protect all religious sites and objects within the country's boundaries.

Dacko's government faced a number of problems during 1964 and 1965: the economy experienced stagnation, the bureaucracy started to fall apart, and the country's boundaries were constantly breached by Lumumbists from the south and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army from the east.

In tandem with the 1970 – 1974 autonomy process, the Iraqi regime carried out a comprehensive administrative reform, in which the country's sixteen provinces, or governorates, were renamed and in some cases had their boundaries altered.

It is the country's first medium for the intellectual exchange of ideas, and its political influence extends beyond the boundaries of Afghanistan.

Chile's system went into effect in 1995 and established the boundaries of the country's wine regions and established regulations for wine labels.

Sharing the ambitious outlook of his grandfather, Muhammad Ali Pasha, he greatly modernized Egypt and Sudan during his reign, investing heavily in industrial and economic development, urbanisation, and the expansion of the country's boundaries in Africa.

The City of London had never expanded its boundaries and with many residential dwellings being replaced by businesses and the impact of The Blitz there were barely five thousand residents in the entirety of the country's financial district after the Second World War.

The station's LW signal is strong enough to be heard clearly beyond the country's boundaries, including in most parts of southern Great Britain.

The council boundaries follow that of the existing political divisions, with each handling between four to six GRCs and SMCs and roughly dividing the country's population into equal parts.

He asserted that the Krogers were the bankers for Moscow, Lonsdale the Red paymaster, and the two civil servants the recipients for selling their country's secrets.

The Bulgarians also possessed a small navy of six torpedo boats, which were restricted to operations along the country's Black Sea coast.

The Dutch, however, who clung to their troops for their country's protection, were against any adventurous military operation as far south as the Danube and would never willingly permit any major weakening of the forces in the Spanish Netherlands.

The railways were historically important in Chile, but now play a relatively small part in the country's transport system.

Remittances were $ 513, 000, 000 in 2006 and they represented 2. 3 % of the country's GDP.

This limits the resources available for investments in the country's deteriorated public infrastructure, investments in many cases that would result in higher quality infrastructure if they were better planned.

Wisdom's films, in which he usually played a family man worker who outsmarts his boss, were some of the few Western films considered acceptable by the country's communist rulers, thus Albanians grew familiar and attached to Wisdom.

Although perestroika was considered bold in the context of Soviet history, Gorbachev's attempts at economic reform were not radical enough to restart the country's chronically sluggish economy in the late 1980s.

The country's first democratic elections in four decades were held on 30 July 2006 with a run-off between current president Kabila and his rival Bemba held on 29 October 2006.

As far as British interests were concerned, Abdur Rahman answered their prayers: a forceful, intelligent leader capable of welding his divided people into a state ; and he was willing to accept limitations to his power imposed by British control of his country's foreign affairs and the British buffer state policy.

All schools were ordered closed in 1975, and the country's churches were closed in 1978.

Freely contested municipal elections, the country's first, were held in September.

During the South African occupation of Namibia, Ethiopia was one of the country's leading proponents abroad ; Ethiopia and Liberia were the first two states to bring the question of independence for then South West Africa to the United Nations.

The Afghan monarchs were eager to develop the stature of government and the country's military capability, and so attempted to raise money by the imposition of state monopolies on the sale of commodoties and high taxes.

As of 2007, the country's fruit and nut exports were at $ 113 million per year but could grow to more than $ 800 million per year in 10 years given the proper investment.

The most predominant influences on Finland's geography were the continental glaciers that scoured and gouged the country's surface.

In Kenya, Christian missionaries in the 1920s and 1930s forbade their adherents from practising it — in part because of the medical consequences, but also because the accompanying rituals were seen as highly sexualized — and as a result it became a focal point of the independence movement among the Kikuyu, the country's main ethnic group.

The distribution of vehicles was skewed, however, because, by 1988, more than half of all vehicles were in Accra, which contained approximately 7 percent of the country's population.

In December 1993, Conté was elected to a 5-year term as president in the country's first multi-party elections, which were marred by irregularities and lack of transparency on the part of the government.

The armed forces, though formally responsible for defending the country's territorial integrity, were really during that period focused upon national development tasks, including agricultural, industrial, and construction tasks.

In 1994, 20 years after independence from Portugal, the country's first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held.

Before the war, trade reform and price liberalization were the most successful part of the country's structural adjustment program under IMF sponsorship.

The country's fiscal situation improved steadily, education improved slightly, the road network expanded, and the armed forces were modernized.

Funds from the multilateral lending institutions, which eventually would help fill the gap left by the reduction of United States aid, were still under negotiation in 1989 and would be conditioned first on payment of arrears on the country's enormous external debt.