The French Prime Minister Jean Marie Raffarin said, "Do we want the river of Islam to enter the riverbed of secularism?" Speaking at Oxford University in 2004, Erdoğan argued for a European "union of values," not "a narrowly defined geography or a union of rigidity," and called for a "peaceful cohabitation between Christians and Muslims".
Palmisano's third guiding question was, "Why would society allow you to operate in their defined geography — their country?" That looks like a way of saying no nation is going to welcome a big-footing America.
But Pollock, responding to Burns, said: "The minister does not make clear for what services and care CCGs will have defined geography and responsibility for.
Whether we admit it or not the USA is a part of América latina, a region defined by geography, shared language, and cultural inheritances rooted in the Iberian colonial project.
These and other new themes are outlined, and the point is made that historical geography is now a broad interdisciplinary field of inquiry and not a narrowly defined subdiscipline of geography.
The beheading of a tourist in Algeria, a meticulously videoed attack on an Egyptian army base, including the casual murder of surviving soldiers, a suicide bombing in Tripoli's smartest hotel – all were recently masterminded by militants publicly loyal to a group whose name once defined its geography: "Islamic state in Iraq and Syria".
"Almost certainly, we need a range of options for different groups defined by geography, socioeconomic level, and culture," says Nigel Bruce, a consultant to the WHO and senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool.
Or is it a clash defined merely by geography, of the teams' sharing a stadium and fighting for a city's love and attention?
They also, in passing, laid the basis for the world as we know it today: one in which almost every scrap of land has been allocated to a "nation-state," groups of humans defined by geography of all things, membership in which is the fundamental defining factor in human identities around the globe.
East Asians, like any other group defined by geography, are a mixed bunch our ancestors may all come from the same continent, but we're made up of a diverse number of countries, cultures and languages.
