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.
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.
Mr Abe has dropped his constant theme of national pride and now listens, he says, to economic concerns.
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.
It is inspiring to feel close to people, to sympathize in grievances and share times of joy and national pride.
Will the French government really stand in the way of a more lucrative deal simply in the interest of national pride?
Whether because of national pride, incompatible priorities or the desire to prop up domestic industries, European defence spending is fragmented and duplicative.
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.
But even Panamanians who cheered the 1989 U.S. invasion that overthrew strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega consider the completed handover a point of national pride.
Like any global competition, national pride is also a motivating force.
Both Koreas see the development of space programs as crucial hallmarks of their scientific prowess and national pride, and both had high-profile failures before success.
The agency had tried to capture national pride and excitement by depicting the UK as one huge stadium, with an "epic" anthem scored by Elbow.
But he added that the papal pick goes beyond national pride.
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Mr Abe is a former prime minister who, when in office, called for a bigger global role for Japan and promoted efforts to boost national pride.
Democrats want it all, and the citizens just want to blame somebody, anybody, but national pride and ideological myths prevent a long look in the mirror.
The pace of development is so fast, however, that national pride cannot put Asian languages in cyberspace as quickly as U.S.-based software companies can upgrade their offerings.
Other than national pride in league tables, that 1.9 percent average economic growth does not mean much for the experience of the median household in the United States.
Either way, it should probably be a matter of national pride that investors now apparently have more confidence when lending to the UK as a sovereign than to Germany.
Few countries are as mad about sport as South Africa: for whites especially, rugby and cricket are the prime sources of national pride in victory and shame in defeat.
For the Irish, losers of their first two in Poland, including a 4-0 whipping by Spain that eliminated any chance they could move on, this game was about national pride.
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