Mostly, however, the longing for independence has been nurtured by the brutality of Indonesian rule.
Through these extracts the reader can almost smell the longing and the willpower.
This beautifully written book is powerfully evocative of the human cost of war and the longing for love that, despite the shooting and shelling, never fades.
People voted for him because his rise reflected and appeared to be an answer to the longing of this country to have its family unit brought together.
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The longing for home is there.
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Of course this is merely my own opinion, but what deeply saddens me about nostalgia is that so few of us ever see through her glittering lure of earthly associations, and so we miss the longing for self-transcendence she is really trying to evoke.
Wherever there were Yiddish-speakers, and memories of the shtetl longing to be resurrected, she would play the crucial, central role of the blushing village bride.
"It shows us that a fairy tale can also be about the darker aspects of life, and for me it highlights the pain and longing in the piece, " he continued.
Their relationship is touchingly drawn, as they take excursions in the rain, longing for the tastes of home and the tang of the Mediterranean, but grateful that nobody is shooting at them.
Leading the first cast as the Scotsman longing for his lady love, an enchanting woman who mostly eludes him, the dashing Davit Karapetyan made much of his role.
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His book begins strongly, even finely, with lyrical descriptions of the absence of water and the universal longing for it.
Twenty four hours of the day longing for her little ones.
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It's easy to see why the material spoke to the director: With his painterly filmmaking style, his characteristic interest in the intersection between longing and restraint, and his ongoing fascination with the early postwar England of his own childhood, Davies has been able to shape the stage play to his strengths, telling the story from Hester's point of view.
Salimi says the transplants were longing to feel a sense of identity, and some of the old songs his company sang would make them cry.
It is as if the speed and magnitude of the changes to East Germans' lives after the fall of the Berlin Wall left some East Berliners longing for the certainties of the old days.
Ms. Meyer, who is Mormon, captures the temptation, the mix of longing and self-discipline, felt by passion-swept young people trying to make the right choices for the right reasons.
MPs are torn between wanting to safeguard the supremacy of the Commons and longing to give a government many of them increasingly dislike (Iraq, university funding, the firemen) a good kicking.
Music lovers will finally get the quality they have been longing for ever since the MP3 was introduced.
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The renegade mindset, historically so much a part of Lone Star culture, once led Texas artists to avoid the influence of New York and Los Angeles (while longing for the exposure) and draw largely on local tradition.
This is the Middle East for people longing to see changes in the Middle East.
"The government negotiating team is fully aware that the country is longing for a peaceful solution, " said Mr La Calle.
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Prices are going up, slowly at the moment, but with every indication that we will soon be longing for the days when inflation was only in the single digits.
Ensuing years were marked by such songs as "Things Have Gone to Pieces" and "A Good Year for the Roses, " which highlighted broken or thwarted romance and the kind of longing that suggests late, lonely nights in bars.
But after refusing to release him to play for Brazil at the Olympics, Robinho once again reiterated his longing to leave the Bernabeu.
The bishop's solution to this problem which goes back to 19th-century thinkers such as Matthew Arnold is to think of the Bible as poetry rather than dogma: as it cannot give you literal access to the divine, it is only as metaphor that it can satisfy a human longing for the transcendental.
As the days went by, the combination of workout and diet left me both charley-horsed and starving, longing for the satiation that only sugar and grease provide.
The omnipresent blue of Greek churches is so memorable that there are even a few Orthodox churches in my neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, that have mimicked the form, giving me and everyone else who passes or steps inside a slight tinge of longing for the Greek islands of their memories.
John Paul had little time for this: he kept an iron grip on the clergy, and this has stirred an immense longing, especially in the developing world, for more freedom at local level.
The series thus satisfies a secret or vicarious longing for elegance without imposing the hard work that's necessary to achieve it in reality.
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