31.   A huge percentage of participants are professionals, not amateurs, and the focus of the games seems to have switched from national pride to personal achievement.

32.   A larger lesson has to do with national pride.

33.   A quieter national pride has gone into a small ethnographic museum just a few hundred yards away on Var Street, which leads to the castle compound.

34.   A point of national pride.

35.   Above all, the Three Gorges project is an opportunity to boost the national pride that seems to lie just beneath the surface of so many Chinese.

36.   After all, national pride is at stake here.

37.   Bring your running shoes, your fine horses, your own national pride, and we will make you welcome.

38.   But aside from a sense of national pride in a rising China, few locals plan to celebrate.

39.   But a declining sense of national pride to make way for this globalism also has its negative side effects, according to some historians.

40.   But for the people of Gori, and for many Georgians, the lingering positive view of Stalin has more to do with national pride than politics.