"The message we should be hearing is that our government is a reflection of our own divisions".
Instead he resembles a stolidly unflashy social democrat of a type common in continental Europe.His corporatist willingness to mix business and government is a reflection of that style.
The stalemate between protesters, known as the Red Shirts, and the government is a reflection of deep divisions in Thai society that revolve around issues of income inequality and the power of unelected institutions like the powerful bureaucracy, the military and the royal entourage.
The fact that leaders from smaller, weaker governments are more likely to find themselves facing an arrest warrant than the leaders of the most powerful governments is a reflection of the disparity in power and wealth that's so profound in the world".
He appealed to farmers to cooperate immediately with the government's orders, a reflection of the slowness of some responses in 2001.
That it was not the usual reaction, here or anywhere else, to the departure of a government official is a reflection on Dr. Arafat, a Palestinian by birth, who is no ordinary federal employee.
A spokesman said that any additional support would be conditional on the formation of an "inclusive" government in Baghdad, a reflection of longstanding American discontent with the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, who US and other western officials accuse of pursuing narrow sectarian goals in favour of his fellow Shias, and at the expense of the Sunni minority and national cohesion.
Abdulsalam Haykal, a leading Syrian technology entrepreneur, praised the Syrian government's decision as a reflection of a commitment to build confidence with the country's young people.
All members of its Parliament and all government officials are female — a reflection of women's high status among the nomadic Hassaniya-speaking Saharan tribes that stretch from Mauritania to Timbuktu.
It is encouraging that we will have people like Linda Burney entering the fray, but the return of Pauline Hanson is equally discouraging and shows that having more Indigenous people in government is not necessarily a reflection of a more progressive nation, but rather is a testament to the work that Linda Burney herself has put in over a long and impressive career.
"The thing that is misinformed about China and Africa is that China's presence in these countries is not imposed on these governments, it is rather a reflection of the development agenda of the countries themselves," Yuhua said.
