For some Australians, the monarchy's continuing involvement in politics is a stain on their national pride.
There's also satisfaction which comes from being a volunteer, or just from national pride.
Like airlines, stock exchanges are symbols of national pride, not easily done away with.
Russia's leaders are counting on the 2014 Winter Games to boost national pride and international prestige.
And Britain's Conservatives are lauded for selling off the state and for salvaging national pride.
India's Hindu-nationalist-led government trumpets its nuclear prowess as a source of Hindu and national pride.
Every district wants its own port, and some projects make sense only as tokens of national pride.
Not if both sides show flexibility and put their national interests ahead of a misguided national pride.
And national pride is making 63 percent of them dig in their heels about maintaining the nuclear program.
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Mr Abe has dropped his constant theme of national pride and now listens, he says, to economic concerns.
Can the Koreans swallow national pride in the greater interests of economic viability?
Surely British shoppers and workers could do with a similar injection of national pride in these economic dire straits?
For America, Sputnik was seen as a threat not just to national pride, but to national security as well.
The government in Tehran insists it will put national pride before mere money.
We need a resurgence of national pride, a love of country and institutions.
Many Americans are thrilled that schools across the country have a heightened emphasis on national pride since the terrorist attacks.
It is inspiring to feel close to people, to sympathize in grievances and share times of joy and national pride.
The exercises were shifted away from town after locals protested that they were an affront to sovereignty and national pride.
Although al-Aqsa is a focal point of Palestinian national pride, a religious dispute alone cannot set the West Bank ablaze.
Will the French government really stand in the way of a more lucrative deal simply in the interest of national pride?
But what was meant to be a project of national pride has, for now, become a source of mistrust and anger.
Lots of other countries have had far more recent puncturings of national pride without being pushed into anything quite as horrible.
In fact, he makes liking Blackcurrant Tango a matter of national pride with fighter jets serving as the perfect exclamation point.
In the end, it is all about national pride and high-stake risks, tortuous and deliberately time-consuming negotiation, fine calculations, deception and bluff.
Apart from much swallowing of national pride, this would necessitate harmonising company law and bringing investor protection up to North American standards.
Whether because of national pride, incompatible priorities or the desire to prop up domestic industries, European defence spending is fragmented and duplicative.
Though Russia still uses the outmoded invalidi to describe disabled people, it now sees the Paralympics as a source of national pride.
For Pakistanis, the killings were yet another U.S. affront to national pride.
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But delicate questions of national pride and political balance are at stake.
The BBC' Balkans correspondent Guy De Launey says that the prospect of membership was previously a matter of great national pride to Croatians.
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