Example sentences of "country ['s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowning absurdity of the rich countries ' current thinking on aid is not , however , their preference for lots of tied aid to not-terribly-poor countries , but their fondness for combining big cheques with barriers to trade . |
| 2 | Not only were the values of other currencies effectively pegged to the dollar ( formally speaking , to gold ) but dollars had to make up the greater part of the other countries ' official holdings of reserves . |
| 3 | At the present time SDRs constitute only 2 per cent of countries ' official reserves — some measure perhaps of the limited contribution of SDRs . |
| 4 | Countries ' only defense is stratospheric interest rates , which are politically insupportable . |
| 5 | Banks have a dominant role in most countries ' financial markets . |
| 6 | It follows , therefore , that a monetary union is compatible with member countries retaining their national currencies provided the following conditions are satisfied : ( a ) there are no restrictions to the movement of capital across the union ; ( b ) member countries ' financial sectors are perfectly integrated . |
| 7 | Reflecting the Nordic countries ' close relations with the Baltic states Iceland on Aug. 26 , 1991 , became the first country formally to establish diplomatic relations with Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania [ see p. 37945 ] . |
| 8 | All payments between Kazakhstan and Russia have to pass through the two countries ' central banks . |
| 9 | The shortfall was accompanied by a general reduction in Arab countries ' regular aid disbursements to Jordan , resulting in the latter 's appeal for more funds on May 28 , 1990 at the Arab League summit in Baghdad , the Iraqi capital [ see p. 37473 ] . |
| 10 | No longer dependent on cheap labour for competitiveness , many are pushing abroad in even high-technology fields and are doing so , perhaps ironically , to exploit other countries ' cheap labour ( Cantwell and Tolentino , 1990 ) . |
| 11 | This is an analysis of countries ' environmental characteristics , and the classification of countries as ‘ hot ’ , ‘ moderate ’ or ‘ cold ’ on the basis of these characteristics . |
| 12 | The war , which arose over the two countries ' rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea , was widely regarded in Russia as the product of intrigue at court and among a handful of entrepreneurs , and aroused little patriotic enthusiasm . |
| 13 | The two countries ' joint forestry committee has called for retaliatory action , including a ban on imports of certain EC products , to be taken by the forthcoming meeting of economic ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 14 | Pace the unjustified slur , naming 10 famous Belgians is easy , even if the Singing Nun , the Mannekin Pis and Hercule Poirot are declared ineligible ( and Jacques Brel counts five of most other countries ' famous people in our book ) — and there could just be another one soon , in the person of Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt , who could become the father of a whole new economics after his proposal that Belgium levy a robot tax on factory machines to get humans back to work : it 's a great idea , and why not take it further and ban construction machinery from the roads to get the shovels back into navvies ' hands — and no doubt computers can be included under the tax , so that in no time , in a dramatic return to Victorian values , while the Belgian economy may not actually start booming , the country will have the world 's biggest quill pen industry . |
| 15 | But the writers who use world-system theories in empirical studies of particular countries ' economic history include features that draw it closer to regulationist theory : for example , the uncertainty , problems and changes associated with conflicts over international hegemony are often studied . |
| 16 | Inflation had been estimated as running at 100 per cent a year , and Yemen 's economic difficulties had reportedly been exacerbated by the withdrawal of some Gulf countries ' economic support as a consequence of the government 's pro-Iraq stance in the Gulf War . |
| 17 | The governments in Tunis , Algiers and Rabat fear that new frustrations will inflame their countries ' economic problems . |
| 18 | According to forecasts by the Paris-based OECD , the industrial countries ' economic think-tank , Austria 's GDP will fall by 0.4% in 1993 . |
| 19 | There seems to be no escape from the fact that work substitutes will be needed to preserve society as we know it , carried out in such a way as to preserve particular countries ' economic viability . |
| 20 | They pointed out that Lome III had not stimulated trade between the EC and the ACP countries ( since 1985 trade in both directions had actually fallen in both absolute and relative terms ) , or lessened the ACP countries ' economic dependence on the production of primary commodities , or encouraged industrialization . |
| 21 | It found that the system had inflicted an extra 1 million unemployed on Italy and more than half a million on France , and had slowed both countries ' economic growth . |
| 22 | Other issues covered in the final declaration were regional trade and integration in the light of a gradual upturn in some Latin American countries ' economic fortunes ; the intensification of measures against drug-trafficking , production and use ; Latin America 's role in protecting the environment ; and moves to protect the Indian population in parts of Brazil and Venezuela . |
| 23 | But environmentalists have criticized them for failing to address Southern countries ' real needs . |
| 24 | Li said that China acknowledged human rights as a proper subject for international discussion , but opposed the use of human rights as a pretext for interference in other countries ' internal affairs . |
| 25 | We must , of course , take account of the differences between the practices of the UK 's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate ( NII ) and the NRC , and the differences between the countries ' electrical supply networks — the UK works with a 50 Hz alternating current , while in the US it is a 60 Hz system . |
| 26 | Identifying the key industrial capabilities for the manufacture of advanced conventional weapons as software engineering on the one hand and large scale chip-based integrated circuit production on the other , a survey will be made of Britain 's and other NATO countries ' industrial resources in these two sectors . |
| 27 | Thus the central and distinctive features of ‘ voluntarism ’ in Britain , arbitration courts in Australia and Denmark , and the concept of ‘ exclusive ’ bargaining representation in the United States emerged early in the formation of those countries ' industrial relations ( Kerr et al . , |
| 28 | No centrally imposed rules on countries ' budgetary policy ; instead , there will be ‘ binding procedures ’ . |
| 29 | The oil sheikhs at least have the excuse that it is their countries ' natural wealth that they are frittering away , not the fruits of the toil of their peoples . |
| 30 | A currency union is likely to lead to a reduction in member countries ' natural rate of unemployment . |