We consider them a symbol of American manifest destiny, yet we share them politely with Canada.
Perhaps, like Manifest Destiny, it will continue to expand until the land runs out to the sea.
Nationalists will assuage, will talk of independence as Scotland's manifest destiny, will seek to counter economic concerns.
But what is being billed as manifest destiny for Internet commerce is going to cause big headaches all around.
They were well briefed and aware of the government's policy of manifest destiny.
In the 1960s it poured money into roads, pipelines and universities, on the assumption that it was the state's manifest destiny to grow.
If China sees its constellation as heavenly and the Chinese, like the Americans and the French, have a sense of manifest destiny neighbours see hints of the diabolic.
We saw it even earlier than that in the presidency of James Polk, who wanted to take the orthodoxy of Andrew Jackson to a program of Manifest Destiny.
The US, with its sense of global leadership and "manifest destiny", did not want to admit to its own people that it was scaling back its ambitions in order to save money.
She seems to share an older vision of America's manifest destiny and to treat the elimination of the country's indigenous people as a regrettable but necessary step in the advance of western civilisation.
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It's especially evident in the places where the Puritans first landed and built their first settlements, where explorers traveled westward to fulfill the country's manifest destiny, and to purchase or take land by force.
On September 8, 2011, when Buck McKeon convened the first of his House Armed Services Committee hearings on the future of the military, no one much disputed the idea that the manifest destiny of the United States is to patrol the world.
The message they proclaimed was one of destiny made manifest: when Bose set out with his men from Singapore in 1943, he had promised he would lead them to Delhi.
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