"The goal is to provide people in developing nations the tools they need to seize the opportunities of the global economy," he said.
While the declaration accepted this week by the more than 140 countries participating in the talks recognized in principle that the 1994 world treaty on intellectual property should be interpreted "to promote access to medicines for all," it did not give the most disadvantaged nations the tools to do so.
We certainly don't need to consult with the people in the Democratic party who have, for decades, been studying the makeup of the voting population across the nation, developing tools and strategies to reach people more effectively.
A crucial Russian method of keeping Ukraine under its wing is to inhibit the formation of a strong Ukrainian national identity by maintaining control over a crucial nation-building tool: history.
Pride in nomadism itself is on the rise, with many countries using what is an increasingly glamorous historical inheritance as an important nation-building tool.
In the nation's tool and die plants, in the driver's seats of farm tractors and in the cabs of the long-haul semis that ply America's highways, people are feeling the pain.
Our children, from an early age, must be taught to pay allegiance to the Constitution and the national symbols, and know what it means to be South African citizens.... Sport is a powerful nation-building tool.
Victor Homola (NYT) TURKEY: ISLAMICIST SOUGHT -- An arrest warrant was issued for Fetullah Gulen, the leader of an Islamic group that is seen by military leaders as a threat to Turkey's secular government and by his admirers as a nation-building tool.
It is not much use as a nation-building tool in America's modern wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for example (pork, remember) but these are tough times in America and domestic sales are going rather well.
The United States needs intelligence gathering, the ability to obtain and keep secrets, spying on foreign powers and genuine threats and all the other tools nations use to protect their security.
