Nevertheless, the movement has, with national differences in focus and application, spread throughout the world.

It is just one of those national differences which are unfathomable.

He described these steps as part of the company's broad effort to recognize national differences.

They were also far less conscious of national, religious and racial differences than what was common.

"People who want to find national differences because they have some kind of need," he said.

On the other hand, local, national, ethnic and gender differences are shaping much of that process.

Culture and common descent provide the main claims for national differences, but other criteria have also been used.

Still, in almost three decades playing basketball here, you've never seen evidence on the courts of any issue over national differences.

That there is a European identity over and above all national differences has never been a matter of dispute.

Ethnic, religious, social and national differences play no role in sport.