Urging forgiveness and rebuking lawlessness, Charles Gyude Bryant, a businessman, took power on Tuesday afternoon, charged with leading a government of national reconciliation for this war-weary nation.

Rebuilding a battered, war-weary nation comes next.

The new President inherited a disheartened war-weary nation.

To a pinched, stressed, war-weary, declinist nation, he offers the clearest program of any of the candidates.

In the wave of lawlessness and frantic self-interest that has washed over this war-weary nation, small acts of pure altruism often go unnoticed.

A war-weary nation is not in the mood to laugh, some say.

Citizens of the war-weary nation wanted stability, peace, and an end to conditions that at times bordered on chaos.

Six months after winning control of this war-weary, impoverished nation, the new Ethiopian Government is struggling to keep its people together despite ethnic conflicts, a rock-bottom economy and a dispirited bureaucracy.

But in the back of your mind you are wondering: How am I going to inspire a war-weary nation?

With the hopes of a war-weary nation on his shoulders, Andrés Pastrana won the presidency in June 1998.