In the past few years, fiscal disciplines imposed by the Maastricht treaty on the dozen or so countries striving to join a single currency have made centre-left governments as fiscally rigorous as right-wing ones in bringing down inflation and public deficits.
All the credible candidates agreed that Poland should continue its successful economic reforms, strive to join the European Union and maintain a Western-oriented foreign policy.
But in keeping with Pico's immense ambition, the scope of the effort became global, striving to join all schools of thought in a single symphony of philosophies.
Perhaps it's a strength of mind thing, or the fact that the bare knuckle scene seems to be something that people stumble into rather than strive to join – or maybe my generation are just a bit wimpy – but the scene is full of grey steel.
It is 1905, and the ship's company of the Potemkin are electrified by news of a revolution; lower decks strive to join it, or rather replicate it.
This is a great group that every startup should strive to join.
I do not know how they manage to pay but I have observed that such people strive to join probably because they know the burden may become overwhelming".
Manchester is striving to join the A-list of global megacities.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, most Eastern European countries strove to join NATO as a way of safeguarding their newly won independence.
That, for a country striving to join mainstream Europe, is reckoned a stirring success.The party led by Vladimir Meciar, the strongman who woefully misruled Slovakia from 1993 until 1998, came top in a general election for the fourth time in a row since Slovaks and Czechs divorced nine years ago, but he has again been kept out of power because no other party has any wish to team up with his.
While young people are full of confidence, many Poles still have a deep fear of being marginalized, of falling behind, both as individuals and as a nation striving to join the rest of Europe as an equal, said Jacek Kucharczyk, deputy director of the Institute of Public Affairs, an independent Polish research organization.
