Example sentences of "world [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say straight to where most countries in the Third World stand today , with their dog-eat-dog labour relations and ever-widening divide between rich and poor . |
| 2 | Observing that " governments of the world stand in danger of sabotaging the hope of a new era of human rights " , it asserted that " some are sabotaging it by the violations they commit directly , others by the selectivity with which they exert their influence " . |
| 3 | The Soviet Foreign Minister and US Secretary of State , meeting in Moscow , jointly condemn the invasion and call for a world ban on arms sales to Iraq . |
| 4 | China , the last country to allow the import of ivory , is to accede to the world ban on ivory as of January 1991 . |
| 5 | They rained down like small coal from a sack , filling the air with choking dust which settled grimily over everything and made the whole world smell grey . |
| 6 | The US , which is responsible for 23 per cent of world CO 2 , against 13 per cent from the EC , has already refused to make a similar policy commitment . |
| 7 | By the mid-Fifties he considered himself the natural leader of world Communism . |
| 8 | In defence of these they point to their abandoning one of the key phrases of Soviet Marxist — Leninism , ‘ proletarian internationalism ’ , which is a way of talking about Soviet domination of world communism and also of Marx 's expression ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ which would be contrary to the claim that communism is compatible with democracy . |
| 9 | Eisenhower had presided over a period of grim Cold War tension which he , like most Americans , believed had been caused by the ambitions of world communism . |
| 10 | As for Communism — world Communism as aggressively anti-God as it is , has always opposed MRA . |
| 11 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 12 | There is an all too small market for third world photography ; so small in Canada that even the stock agencies wo n't touch it . |
| 13 | There is an all too small market for third world photography ; so small in Canada that even the stock agencies wo n't touch it . |
| 14 | The official visitors included Bryan Craies from Auckland , who is the world chairman , Jeff Butterfield from London , Alan Forno ( Australia ) , David Graham ( Canada ) and Mike Scully ( USA ) . |
| 15 | PC World chairman Jan Murray reckons it was only a matter of time before PCs lost their premium product status and started being treated like any other commodity item . |
| 16 | In 1987 Thomson sold GE-RCA its medical electronics operation and purchased GE-RCA 's television manufacturing activities , thus giving Thomson immediate leadership of the US television set market ; Thomson was also second ( to GM-Hughes ( in the world defence electronics league . |
| 17 | The report was seen partly as a response to a document published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) which had criticized the socially destructive effects of World Bank-supported SAPs [ see pp. 36991-92 ] . |
| 18 | In terms of the newspapers in the present study , the sudden stopping of the News of the World coverage explains the fall in the total of rape cases covered between 1978 and 1985 . |
| 19 | There should be more Third World coverage b ) |
| 20 | The country was in the middle of a world recession with unemployment well above two million and looking set to break the three million mark , a prospect that a few years before would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 21 | The difficulties have not been restricted to the U.K. It is a world recession , although the U.K. happens to be deeper in it than other countries , ’ he says . |
| 22 | Germany 's vulnerability to the world recession is shown in trade figures that have been sharply worse than last year . |
| 23 | The world recession has been tough for all of us , at home and abroad . |
| 24 | A decade of success ended with the problems of recession — a world recession . |
| 25 | Lastly the effects of the world recession and specifically the price rise of oil in 1973 have put pressure upon national funding of conservation programmes ; encouraged the use of woodfuel or dung ; reduced artificial fertiliser application rates ; exacerbated the foreign exchange position of most lesser developed countries and discouraged government and private initiatives in conservation . |
| 26 | There was a world recession in trade . |
| 27 | Oil exporters , as noted , had to cut their imports and thus , perhaps , aggravated the world recession . |
| 28 | The limited resources available to individual local authorities prevent them solving employment problems caused by national deflationary policies and world recession . |
| 29 | It is easy to understand why the fears of technology generated unemployment should enjoy a renaissance during a world recession . |
| 30 | The deposits may not be economic to mine now , though they could be either if the world recession lifts and demand grows , or if supplies from elsewhere are cut short . |