Some Iranians say they believe that the movie received government backing because it could stir sentiment for war at a time when tensions over a possible conflict with the United States are rising.
That's worth noting, given music's power to influence culture, stir sentiment, and drive home a political message; it's also notable because Spotify is heavily used by younger people, who have the ability to significantly impact the direction of U.S. politics, when they decide to show up at the polls.
The two countries have fought each other numerous times in recent years near Preah Vihear, an ancient hilltop temple that stirs nationalist sentiments in both countries.
They stirred public sentiment by offering visual evidence of slavery's abuses as well as of the wholesomeness of an emerging class of freed blacks.
Now he has become their guru, saying for example that China fabricated the Nanjing massacre to stir nationalist sentiment and that the United States deliberately snared Japan into war.
Critics retort that the legislation smacks of authoritarianism and see an attempt by the center-left government of Prime Minister Robert Fico to stir nationalist sentiment ahead of upcoming elections in June.
Those who handled her best -- Melbourne, Albert, and Disraeli --understood that she needed to be stirred by sentiment as well as duty in order to act her regal part with conviction.
China's leaders have invested significant resources in their secretive military-affiliated space program and have tried to stir nationalist sentiment about the project, as the United States and the Soviet Union did in the 1960's.
But he is ashamed that Czech politicians have used the decrees authorizing the expulsions and the later official absolution of all Czechs who killed Germans then to stir nationalist sentiment.
Chile and Peru have had a long-standing dispute over maritime borders, and Ollanta Humala, the Peruvian populist who almost won his country's most recent presidential election, found it convenient to stir up sentiment against Chile.For its part, the army emphasises that it is available for international peacekeeping.
