His fledgling state needs all the friends it has.
Mr Ramos-Horta has always maintained that the fledgling state needs the UN's help until 2010.
This irks young people in Somaliland, who have only known the region as a fledgling state.
The most powerful force in the fledgling state, the armed groups remain a law unto themselves.
The rest of the world sat by during the Holocaust and Arab efforts to squash the fledgling state of Israel.
Vladimir Meciar, the Slovaks' thuggishly populist prime minister at the time, steered his fledgling state into anti-western isolation.
Dr Adenauer moulded the democratic foundations of the fledgling state and cemented it into the Western alliance.
By the time Mr. Peres was 29 he was running the Ministry of Defense of the fledgling state.
Still, many contributed money and support to the fledgling state, especially during a territorial war with Azerbaijan that ended in 1994 and still simmers.
Writer demonstrates the fallacy of this viewpoint-comparing a strong military power like Germany was in 1938 with Khomeini's Iran, a tiny, weak, faction-ridden fledgling state.
It is a struggle that many Tunisians believe could prove to be the making — or the unmaking — of their fledgling state.
