Example sentences of "world [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of world exports supplied by non-oil exporting LDCs has declined . |
| 2 | True , the industrial economies still account for 76% of world exports and their currencies dominate international financial markets — so the economic policies of the old industrial giants do have a disproportionately large influence on the world economy as a whole . |
| 3 | As the US share of world exports has declined , the US multinationals ' share of world trade of manufactured goods actually increased between 1966 and 1984 ( Lipsey and Kravis , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | Prospects for Third World exports dim further . |
| 5 | It read : ‘ Not only is debt partly responsible for the slump in commodity prices ; it also devours the money earned by Third World exports . |
| 6 | Banana production , the major activity of the region , which provided 35 per cent of world exports , was expected to be disrupted for between two and six weeks . |
| 7 | Until it slipped last year , British manufacturers ' share of the volume of world exports had been broadly stable at 7% since 1981 , after falling continuously since the 1950s . |
| 8 | Libra Bank , the London-based consortium bank which trades in third world debts , plunged to a pre-tax loss of £174.6m in the first half of 1989 from profits last time of £10.9m . |
| 9 | Barclays , whose exposure to Third World debts are lower than most , led the way ahead with a 22p gain to 518p . |
| 10 | And the minister asked him , what is the Church 's attitude towards Third World debts ? |
| 11 | And we receive a steady income from interest on Third World debts . |
| 12 | Alternatively ( as happened in many Third World countries in the 1980s ) they may be responsive to the interests of transnational capital in the shape of the World Bank and the IMF imposing ‘ restructuring ’ policies in order to ensure repayment of Third World debts . |
| 13 | Write to the government : Ask for more official development assistance — ask that the banks write off Third World debts |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | Newcastle were handicapped by the absence of David Bargh and Mark Thorpe , who were competing in the World Pairs semi-finals in Germany . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | China , the last country to allow the import of ivory , is to accede to the world ban on ivory as of January 1991 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Can there be a better of example of the fairytale world meeting reality than the World Poohsticks Championships on the Thames in Oxfordshire . |
| 22 | First published in 1909 , it is used not only by the Library of Congress but widely across the United States ; since the headings are included in USMARC tapes , the list can be consulted wherever in the world MARC tapes are used . |
| 23 | We are not used to such notions and there are few world religions that still offer ‘ sacrifices ’ . |
| 24 | Most human religions , from tribal to world religions , have treated woman 's body , in its gender-specific sexual functions , as impure or polluted and thus to be distanced from sacred spaces and rites dominated by males . |
| 25 | Last year Eyre was once more seen on television , quizzing representatives of ‘ the major league ’ of world religions — a Jew , a Muslim , a Buddhist , a Christian and a Hindu — about matters of spiritual import . |
| 26 | When considering the nature of God in later chapters , I set out to include consideration of a range of world religions . |
| 27 | In terms of a common form of theism , we have suggested that those world religions we have examined are all fundamentally monotheistic — they believe in one God . |
| 28 | Can , for instance , the emphasis upon God as ‘ underlying reality ’ , and upon God active in history as a personal agent , be regarded as compatible elements in an understanding of God common to many world religions ? |
| 29 | In a class devoted to vaguely-worded comparisons between different world religions , or to ill-structured discussion of social and socio-political problems where no examination is taken , there may be a tendency to frivolity both in the preparation of the lessons and in the behaviour of the pupils . |
| 30 | Bah á'; ís do not disbelieve in any previous founders of world religions . |