Sentences with phrase «less powerful countries»

Unfortunately, notwithstanding that it's our sovereign right to cast our votes at the UN, for less powerful countries like Nigeria, who thought that their decisions would hardly matter on such decisions of theirs, it seems that by shifting the whole blame on them this time round, Washington has decided to make them scapegoats.

Changes would include a drastic increase in overseas development assistance in the field of communication and under conditions more favourable to recipient parties, the adoption of the UNCTAD Code of Transfer of Technology on the terms proposed by the developing countries, a revision of provisions on the protection of intellectual property in the GATT / TWO multilateral trade accord so as to take the interests of less powerful countries and small producers into account, and the adoption of a multilateral accord on space cooperation and equal benefits.

The main issues in connection with liberalization are: the protection of universal service and infant markets in less powerful countries and the commercialization of information services.

Not exact matches

Washington suffered from a number of otherwise debilitating, painful ailments and diseases throughout his life that would have taken a lesser man down — but not the man who founded the most powerful country ever to grace the Earth.

All these comments go to show that we are very far away from what is suppose to SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE... all you religious zealots get a clue... if your god is so powerful why doesn't he put your man in office... I'll tell you... he could care less about the piddly human contest to rule the world... really, please, use some logic in determination of who is best for this country...

They do not complain - that is not the Army's way - but the book leaves a sense of grievance that such a powerful and wealthy country as ours should deploy a force less than adequate for the safety of our own people.Excellent war reporters and broadcasters are employed only to give snippets and snapshots.

It has probed what we thought for years: many countries do not just feel superior to less powerful bodies, they show a ridiculous arrogance regarding smaller, less developed countries.

Although the correlation is not perfect, bigger countries tend to be more powerful and smaller countries less so.

Are you proud they will inherit a poorer, less powerful, less secure country?»

From these subtle yet powerful opening scenes (it's the poor and the disenfranchised who fight for the wealthy and powerful), The Manchurian Candidate explores a multitude of political «issues» to a lesser or greater extent: the ill that is committed under the guise of defending a nation; the behind - the - scenes machinations of any country's political process; the unpalatable relationship between entertainment, money and politics, and most specifically, the enormous influence big business has on politics and politicians.

The government generally lathers less regulation on firms, and trade unions are less powerful than those in many other countries.

There is less government regulation of firms, and trade unions are less powerful than in many other countries.

It's my own humble opinion that it is better to be the lone right thumb that has the courage to go out and show the world what we need to do to avert major detrimental climate change than to wait for other less powerful and influencial countries to do it as well.

Originally introduced back in 2015 for developing countries where smartphones are less powerful, and network speeds are slower, Facebook has now decided to expand the availability of their Facebook Lite app to the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Germany, New Zealand, and Ireland.

An examination of the predictive associations of individual disorders in developed countries revealed that depression is among the strongest predictors of suicide ideation (OR = 3.3), but is much less powerful in predicting progression from ideation to plans (OR = 1.5), planned attempts (OR = 1.5), or unplanned attempts among ideators (OR = 1.2).