Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because he is the embodiment of the unsatisfied soul. He is irritating and threatening, a scold, a drag. He is the relentless accuser and reproacher, who cries, "O shame! Where is thy blush?" But he is also part of the people he confronts; he is that "noble and most sovereign reason" within them too, which is why his unnerving presence among them eventually overthrows the status quo and winds up revolutionizing their world...
...direction of reform and demonstrate responsible international conduct, most critically in its relations with neighboring states. Many Russians feel the loss of empire like a phantom pain in a lost limb. Twenty-five million ethnic Russians live outside the borders of Russia proper, in what are now independent, sovereign countries. It is important that they feel at home in tolerant, inclusive democracies. Any grievances they have, legitimate or otherwise, could play into the hands of ultranationalists back in Russia...
...occupied territories." This is another ridiculous charge. The tunnel in question has been in place for 25 centuries and opening up its back door does not alter the city's demographics. Secondly, Jerusalem is emphatically not an occupied city. The whole of Jerusalem is the undivided capital of the sovereign state of Israel, as President Clinton himself has affirmed...
...Clinton's Gulf diplomacy is in trouble. By conducting the raid inside Iraq's sovereign territory, Saddam engineered discomfiting divisions in the allied coalition, where cohesion has already been dissolving as many member nations lose their anti-Saddam resolve. Secretary of State Warren Christopher could not persuade France to join in patrolling the expanded no-fly zone, and the U.N. Security Council, blocked by Russia, could not agree on a resolution condemning the Iraqi attack...
...Serb candidate for the joint presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik. "If the Muslims try to press for a stronger [central government for] Bosnia and Herzegovina, that could lead to collapse," he threatens. Dismissing any talk of reintegration, he adds, "Bosnia is only a thin roof under which it has two, completely sovereign entities." Krajisnik even carries his vision for division to the bicameral parliament's architecture. He has suggested constructing a building on the former confrontation line with two entrances, one for the Serbs coming from their side, and one for Muslims and Croats from the other...