De Gaulle reasoned that France paid too high a price for an uncertain guarantee of national survival in the nuclear age. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
Following Brands's logic, this death is strange since the patient was never really alive to begin with, but existed only parasitically upon people's concern with national survival. (religion-online.org)
Those who collaborated with the Romans to put Jesus to death did so, according to the story, out of a concern for national survival. (religion-online.org)