Sentences with phrase «many smaller nations»

Singapore, the smallest nation in Asia, occupies a 225 - square - mile expanse of swampy, tropical islands — an area about the size of Trenton, New Jersey.

It doesn't apply to just those big countries either — it affects smaller nations such as Canada, as well.

As Singapore is a small nation, most people will find themselves within five to 20 minutes of the nearest hospital.

For a rather small nation — technically a sovereign city - state — Singapore has a lot of dining options.

My conclusion is that developments in the global economy during the past 50 years have greatly reduced the economic disadvantages of small nations enumerated for his time by Hamilton.

The small nations of the Nordic region like Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland have much in common besides cold weather and long, summer nights.

Arton Capital managing director May says he expects two sets of independent nations to continue improving their passport strength: «Small nations who are no threat to anyone as well as smart and open - minded nations, especially when there is a strong rule of law.»

She described Beijing's view of these islands as more than just individual small nations, but collectively as an important factor in China's ability to resist Western containment.

With the recent South Pacific International Communications cable link providing 4G to one of the world's smallest nations and by accepting the bitcoin economy, overseas transactions will be easier to facilitate.»

The Russians are going to have the biggest Eastern European military exercise this September; a power play verses all the small nations immediately around there.

You wouldn't immediately match an ultra-modern crypto currency with farmland investment in one of the smallest nations in the world, but tiny Vanuatu is blazing a trail for the use of bitcoin.

Smaller nations rush to join the nuclear club.

Other small nations have declined and fallen, and have risen again.

But there was no possibility of real independence for the small nations, as Palestine became once more the cockpit of rival empires, and Josiah died leaving his kingdom a dependency of the Egyptian Crown.

The sultan recently imposed strict Sharia law in the small nation.

If Israel reduces Zionism to «a Jewish community in Palestine» or tries to build a small nation just like other small nations, it will end by attaining neither.

When smaller nations resist, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank impose structural adjustment policies upon them on pain of their total exclusion from the international economic system.

Though a small nation, there is need to understand how she differed from her neighbors and contemporaries.

More than 2,500 years ago, in the bright of day, somewhere in a large Middle Eastern city, the king of a small nation strips down to his underclothes during a religious ceremony and dances to the rhythms of tambourines, castanets and cymbals punctuated by the melody of lyres, harps and other guitarlike instruments.

Because of his love for Israel he chose them when they were few and were the smallest nation of the earth — they possessed no merit, they had no claim upon God: of his free will he bestowed upon them his love and chose them as his own people (Dent.

Small nations look outward.

In San Francisco, early in 1945, all of the great and most of the small nations of the world, with the exception of the defeated powers, signed the charter creating the United Nations.

Such risks are increasing now that several smaller nations have both the capacity and the determination to produce atomic bombs.

Isn't it amazing that though Israel has always been a relatively small nation, and few in number, they are still one of the world powers in military, science and economics?

The Costa Rica international was a star of the World Cup, helping the small nation to their best ever finish in the quarter finals of the tournament.

His record shows bunch of wins but they are against amateur players and very small nations.

It will also provide extra motivation for teams such as Liverpool and Tottenham as the competition progresses, with some of the best teams in the competition and potential winners from smaller nations — the likes of Ajax, Anderlecht, Salzburg and Zenit immediately spring to mind — already likely to be assured of Champions League places through their domestic finishes.

like those «smaller nations» playing their hearts out vs brazil in world - cups and causing huge upsets (play the game, not the name).

Though Norway won enough gold in 2014 to feed a small nation, Bovada still likes Germany.

They are by far the smallest nation ever to qualify and — at a mere 339,000 — the first with a population under a million.

As a consequence, regardless of the outcome, Ireland and other smaller nations — like Bosnia have been royally screwed.

United legend Denis Irwin travelled to Iceland to discover how such a small nation made such a big impact at Euro 2016.

With football clubs routinely shelling out the type of sums on a player that could prop up a small nation's economy, an individual's personality is quickly becoming every bit as important as technical skill, with everything from mental toughness to the company they keep dissected carefully before a bid is made, let alone contract offered.

«I'm proud of my country, we're a very small nation but we have a lot of quality players.

He worked out long ago that in a one - country - one - vote system a handful of votes from the smallest nations anywhere in the world cancel out the votes of the European footballing powerhouses.

New Uefa president promises to examine new Champions League deal, amid fears that it is unfair to smaller nations.

Around the Gulf there are some peculiarities where small nations like Qatar don't control the air traffic in their airspace.

In this small nation of 1.3 million people, citizens have overcome fears of an Orwellian dystopia with ubiquitous surveillance to become a highly digital society.

Small nations can be successful after independence.

Thus, political devolution, economic development and nation - state re-scaling processes are merging and becoming intertwined, thereby establishing a new European regional order characterised by the presence of city - regional small nations as new key players.

The unit of analysis is the city - region, in which a complex networked dimension could account for different currently established socio - territorial structures, such as small nations (the Basque Country, Scotland and Catalonia), metropolitan cities (Dublin, Portland, Liverpool and Manchester), cross-border regions (Oresund) and small states (Iceland).

There are two forces operating in two different directions: on the one hand, city / regional small nations are demanding Independence from their referential nation - states, while on the other hand, nation - states themselves are re-centralising or decentralising their structures and powers.

For the purposes of illustration, I will extract from the book some brief conclusions for each of the three city - regional small nation cases, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Scotland, in relation to their referential nation - states.

Here is a Financial Times article that speaks about small nations deciding whether to join the EU, such as Estonia and Latvia.

Mr Salmond argued an independent Scotland would mirror the success of small nations such as Norway and Iceland and would act in a «partnership of equals» with England.

Putting matters in perspective, Brenner rationalizes that «in a small nation like this, there are just not enough people.»

The results show that the relatively small nation of Gabon has the majority (almost 60 percent) of the remaining forest elephants.

Rather than the end of nations that Debora MacKenzie refers to, a global system based on small nations would be...

U.S. nuke list mushroomed in 2003 from traditional Cold War adversaries to smaller nations with nuclear ambitions

Fish - farming companies such as HiddenFjord, in the town of Sørvágur, are the lifeblood of the Faroe Islands, a small nation in the North Atlantic Ocean halfway between Iceland and Norway.