11.   So while nation building can be tough, frustrating, even impossible, the other options may be worse.

12.   Some noted that he was much more emphatic during the campaign than Bush about the need to deal with terrorists and for nation building.

13.   Still, the pontiff said, such leaders must turn to God before undertaking the task of nation building.

14.   That apparently also extends to nation building, a concept once scorned by Bush.

15.   The fact is, nation building, if done well, can prevent vastly more expensive full-scale military actions.

16.   The question is anyway not the theology of nation building but how best to discourage localized violence.

17.   The war in Afghanistan should spur yet another examination of Kipling, particularly as the West becomes involved in nation building.

18.   Those conditions, however, make the country attractive to sellers of asphalt, power generation gear, construction materials and other basic ingredients of modern nation building.

19.   U.S. troops would not be drawn into such broader and more difficult missions as peacekeeping or nation building, he said, as happened in Somalia.

20.   We were nation building.