So, perhaps when the next Year of the Snake rolls around and we are preparing to shed our skin once again, we will see a shift in the other direction -- toward a new economy, a new kind of politics, a new definition of security, and a new way to interact with our fellow citizens that relies on mutual solidarity and not mutual surveillance.
Like many speakers on this first evening in Charlotte, she sought to cast her message of community support and mutual solidarity as rooted in the country's most ancient traditions.There was almost a sense of poker at work.
IF YOU feel in need of light relief at this time of world tension, try reading the European Union's Maastricht treaty on the subject of foreign policy: "Member states shall support the Union's external and security policy actively and unreservedly in a spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity".
Debtors want mutual solidarity; if not direct transfers from rich to poor, then at least Eurobonds to pool debt (the commission is studying the options for this).
The way both live their life, their mutual solidarity and the quality of their relationship are all affected by the illness and its symptoms.
Her arresting, elegant thriller cast a hostage crisis in a nameless Latin-American capital as an operatic illustration of the well-known truism that captives and captors tend, as the days of mutual exposure draw on, to develop solidarity with one another.
In a socioevolutionary approach, Durkheim described the evolution of societies from mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity (one rising from mutual need).
While Clinton tries to deny reality, the Brics countries are engaged in their own propaganda, claiming their "south-south co-operation", which often explicitly links aid with trade, places a new emphasis on mutual benefit, solidarity and self-reliance.
Solidarity on that issue was one message of the war games: though their stated purpose was to restore order in an imaginary country riven by ethnic fighting, they looked very much like a rehearsal for invading Taiwan.The mutual attraction reflects positive factors too.
The answer, as Merkel herself has acknowledged in the past, is that a failure to resolve the crisis through mutual agreement wouldn't merely be a rebuke to the Greeks and a failure of the eurozone: it would violate the ethos of commonality and solidarity on which the E.U. was built.
