"Thriving Regions Lead to a Thriving State" is a shared agenda for action to promoting California's Economic Recovery through Regional Strategies.
The Huffington Post asked Iowa Republican Party Chairman Matt Strawn if it's appropriate for a thriving state to wield such disproportionate influence in a struggling country.
We embrace the fact that many are rooting for us; understanding that we will never have a thriving state of Michigan, or southeast region without a vibrant city of Detroit.
As NPR has previosuly reported regarding this financial support from evangelical Christians: "Ardent followers also embrace literal interpretations of the Bible that a thriving state of Israel is a prerequisite for an apocalyptic end-time and the return of Jesus to earth".
New forms of antagonism, as seen in 2010's Arab spring and the "colour revolutions" of the early 2000s, could transform a "perfectly thriving state, in a matter of months, and even days, into an arena of fierce armed conflict".
The experience of military conflicts -- including those connected with the so-called colored revolutions in north Africa and the Middle East -- confirm that a perfectly thriving state can, in a matter of months and even days, be transformed into an arena of fierce armed conflict, become a victim of foreign intervention, and sink into a web of chaos, humanitarian catastrophe, and civil war.
They ARE war, he says, describing how through the use of propaganda, disinformation and subversion "a perfectly thriving state" can, in months "sink into a web of chaos, humanitarian catastrophe and war".
One of the opposition's triumphs was to win the thriving state of Penang, an island off the west coast famous for its electronics and tourism industries.So Mr Lim took up perhaps the highest-profile establishment position ever held by an opposition politician in Malaysia.
He is convinced that given a chance a post-Lukashenko Belarus could rejoin the western mainstream, and become a thriving European state.
"Israel is meanwhile a thriving, democratic state with independent judiciary". "But one consequence of the distinction between a democratic government and a terrorist organisation is that democratic governments are held to significantly higher standards, notably by their own people.
Gaza was given a great opportunity in 2005 that Hamas squandered by transforming it into an anti-Israel weapons store instead of a thriving Palestinian state that, with time, may have served as a model for the future of the West Bank as well.
