Example sentences of "[art] [adj] country ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large military spending took place during the war years of 1914–18 , followed by the Allied countries ' demands for huge reparations in the Treaty of Versailles . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That would only hasten the rich countries ' relative decline . |
| 4 | They represent the best hope in years of cutting the rich countries ' farm subsidies which , at taxpayers ' expense , build up huge surpluses of foodstuffs that are then dumped on world markets at low prices — and which then put third-world farmers out of business . |
| 5 | The treaty and related documents , including separate protocols and declarations , were signed by the 12 countries ' Foreign and Finance Ministers . |
| 6 | With their teams of lawyers , accountants and company agents , and able to transfer money at the push of a computer button , the launderers dodge through the maze of the different countries ' jurisdictions creating a trail so complex that investigators , never mind the banks , find it almost impossible to spot what is going on . |
| 7 | The criminal law , in other words , condemns the importation of murderous terrorist acts usually against powerful individuals or strategic institutions , but goes all quiet when governments export or support avoidable acts of killing usually against the under-developed countries ' poor . |
| 8 | As cogs in the Soviet military machine , the three countries ' armies used to sit mainly near their western borders . |
| 9 | According to forecasts by the Paris-based OECD , the industrial countries ' economic think-tank , Austria 's GDP will fall by 0.4% in 1993 . |
| 10 | The purpose of this attack is to weaken the economy of these [ oil-producing and Islamic ] countries and strengthen the foundations of the industrial countries ' economies . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | The division has poisoned the neighbouring countries ' relations — further complicated because the official language of Ghana is English , that of Togo French . |
| 13 | India in particular , on July 12-14 , emphasized the developing countries ' claim for special , ie more favourable , treatment in this field . |
| 14 | In this regard , it reaffirmed " the urgent need " for governments , as well as multilateral and private financial institutions , to take into account the relationship between foreign debt and the developing countries ' ability to address environmental issues . |
| 15 | South Korea was elected to chair the developing countries ' Group of 77 ( G-77 ) for 1993 at the Group 's General Assembly in Vienna on Dec. 14 . |
| 16 | On June 6-9 Albania hosted , for the first time , a meeting of the Balkan countries ' national commissions for UNESCO . |
| 17 | Areas of contention were brought to light during the summit , however , notably Austria 's objections to the other countries ' reliance on nuclear power , and opposition by Italy to admitting other states ( specifically Poland ) to the group . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The two countries ' chiefs of staff , Admiral William Crowe and General Sergei Akhromeyev , have also exchanged visits since then . |
| 20 | The main item on the agenda will be reduction of troop numbers along the two countries ' common border . |
| 21 | He convened a group within the cabinet to wrest control of Japan 's end of the two countries ' Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks from the civil servants . |
| 22 | True , the two countries ' systems of choosing a leader and choosing a government are different , but there have been enough historic parallels to make Americans peer keenly at British elections . |
| 23 | The two countries ' joint campaigning body , Stop Acid Rain , is unremitting in its promotion of the case against acid rain . |
| 24 | The snub has sparked fears that the Clinton administration is about to put the two countries ' special relationship on hold in retaliation for Tory support of George Bush in the presidential campaign . |
| 25 | All payments between Kazakhstan and Russia have to pass through the two countries ' central banks . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | However , after 1850 the two countries ' experiences begin to diverge . |
| 28 | Although situated entirely in the Libyan section of the continental shelf , 10 per cent of the revenue from the field would be devoted to joint projects , including one to connect the two countries ' power grids , a 300-km motorway between Ras Jedir on the border and Sfax in Tunisia , and a pipeline linking the Libyan refinery in Zuwarah , 200 km west of Tripoli , with the Tunisian port of Zarzis . |
| 29 | This envisaged , among other things , the connection of the two countries ' electricity grids , giving priority to providing direct telecommunications links , joining railway lines at the border , and joint agricultural and water conservation projects . |
| 30 | During a visit by the Italian President , Francesco Cossiga , in November , the two countries ' Foreign Ministers signed a protocol on the construction of a fourth gas pipeline across the Mediterranean and on increased co-operation in the petrochemicals sector . |