Sentences with phrase «of a small nation»

Children and adults find marvel and wonder in the natural and cultural diversity of this small nation.

Iceland may be one of the smaller nations in Europe, but it happens to be the location of many of the continent's most impressive waterfalls.

While some women spend the GDP of small nations on hair - straightening treatments, the music world's sexiest stars have been rocking rin...

But when you see blog posts that compare Apple's «cash pile» to the gross domestic products of small nations or detail what other companies Apple could buy with it, remember that Apple is actually borrowing to finance the promises it has already made.

Why did the Jewish nation survive at all, when so many of the smaller nations of antiquity sooner or later lost their identity in the melting - pot of the great empires of the Middle East?

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.

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.

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.

These terms are more common to governments with Strong Federalism (i.e. a bunch of small nations decide to collectively cede power to form a large one) and tend to form around what the highest level of government can do with respect to the law and the lower levels of government.

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.

The United States is a Federation, which means it's something akin to a series of small nations or «States» that have ceded certain powers to a larger government body (The United States, for our purposes, the Federal government).

As only children, they were to reap the rewards of a smaller nation and, in turn, smaller families, to become a super-educated, perfect generation.

«We must ensure that we learn one of the major lessons from the highest performing nations in Pisa, and ensure the education system of our small nation has clarity of vision and consistency of approach.

Because many of the smaller nations don't have the means to finance proper mitigation projects, the Green Climate Fund is stepping in, providing funding assistance to nations that need it the most.

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.

US Investors Owe a Cumulative $ 25bln in Crypto Taxes, Strategist Estimates: Imagine an insignificant portion — less than 7 % — of a country's population owing more in taxes than the entire GDP of a small nation.

Yet, for all its brazen gags, its hip soundtrack (forking out the gross domestic product of a small nation - state for a couple verses of Led Zeppelin's «Immigrant Song»), and its cool if somewhat hetero - normative heroes (Valkyrie and Korg, Tessa Thompson who could be an action star in her own right and Waititi, respectively, rep LGBT in the comics), the House That Steve Rogers Built doesn't rush headlong into truly dangerous territory.

They just can't match other nations when it comes to ball control and passing, even many of the smaller nations are better than England at this.

Box - office grosses can rival the GDP of small nations, Marvel and its ilk continue to create genuinely exciting franchises chock full of limitless possibilities, and again and again we find ourselves drawn back to the multiplex.

One of the smallest nations in the world, New Zealand, has become a key trading partner with one of the largest, China.