Sentences with phrase «oldest countries in the world»

For example, the Nordic countries are among the oldest countries in the world.

Japan is already the oldest country in the world, with nearly a quarter of the population over the age of 65.

Not exact matches

Few people have visited every country in the world, but one is 27 year - old Sal Lavallo.

At just 27 years old, Sal Lavallo achieved a goal that very few people ever undertake — travelling to every country in the world.

It's administered to 15 - year - olds in 72 countries across the world.

And there was the underlying mentality of many of the more ardent Euro - federalists in the leading countries, including many British, French and Italians; that the coming together of Europe was a miraculous renascence that would restore to the old continent the headship of the world.

A 35 - year - old company with 31,000 employees in 15 countries, CGI generated revenue in 2011 of $ 4.32 billion and now ranks among the world's leading providers of IT and business processes.

«We're not just putting higher - octane fuel in an old clunker of a tax car; we've proposed to drive a newer tax car that can beat and win against any country in the world,» Rep. Kevin Brady (R - TX), who chairs the tax - writing Ways and Means Committee, said.

Canadians tend not to brag about our accomplishments, but we can be proud of the fact that our country is one of the best places in the world in which to grow old.

BTCC — the oldest bitcoin exchange in the world — was the first exchange to announce they'd be closing shop within the Asian country, by the end of this month.

It's not hard to imagine Joel and Ethan Coen, the innovative filmmakers who gave the world the comedic brutality in No Country for Old Men, Fargo and True Grit, growing up obsessed with reading Judges until the pages fell apart.

In a country that prides itself on being the oldest constitutional democracy in the world, it seems inconceivable that we employ a decidedly undemocratic system for selecting our presidential nomineeIn a country that prides itself on being the oldest constitutional democracy in the world, it seems inconceivable that we employ a decidedly undemocratic system for selecting our presidential nomineein the world, it seems inconceivable that we employ a decidedly undemocratic system for selecting our presidential nominees.

«David Wells of the World Pentecostal Fellowship confessed that too often evangelicals did not understand or appreciate historical churches, their centuries - old stand for Christ, and their presence in countries in which their witness and pastoral ministry has been dominant,» Stiller wrote.

Azhar, the oldest university in the world, has played a decisive part in the history of Muslim civilization, not only in the Arab countries, but throughout all the non-Arab Muslim world as well.

It was the product not only of ethnic inheritances but also of unique experiences in this country, in particular the experience of independence, of striking out on one's own, leaving the old world behind.

I really am shocked how religious this country is... it amazes me that one of the top GDPs in the world has 42 % of its population think the earth is less than 10,000 years old.

And Whitman's gnawing fear was expressed in imagery almost identical with that of Jefferson: «If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserable - waged populations, such as we see looming upon us of late years — steadily, even if slowly, eating into them like cancer of lungs or stomach — then our republican experiment, notwithstanding all its surface - successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.

Essentially they are the ones who are not strong enough to be advocates for themselves: prisoners, very old and very poor people, household workers, most people who live in Third World countries, retarded children and adults, schoolchildren, immigrants, farm workers, unemployed persons, the institutionalized mentally ill, sometimes women, sometimes gays.

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Temecula offers world - class shopping at Promenade Temecula, historic Old Town Temecula shops, and Lake Elsinore Outlets or pick up unique wine related gifts at the wineries in Wine Country.

There should be no shortage of interest in Schurrle either with the former Bayer Leverkusen man impressing when called upon for both club and country, the 24 year old having put in a good series of cameo displays at the 2014 World Cup finals.

Also wanted by Arsenal and Liverpool, Bayern Munich forward Thomas Muller has been the subject of a # 45m bid from Manchester United and could make a superb addition at Old Trafford after his fine goalscoring displays for club and country in recent years, including some eye - catching performances in Germany's win at last summer's World Cup.

The 24 - year - old Lazio player, who played twice for his country at the World Cup, would be in direct competition with Wayne Bridge.

The 21 - year - old only broke into the Heerenveen first team in 2012, but has earned rave reviews in his home country and only narrowly missed out on selection for the Dutch World Cup squad.

West Ham boss Sam Allardyce is pondering a # 12m bid for 25 - year - old Ecuador international striker Enner Valencia, who scored all three of his country's goals in the World Cup group matches and hit 18 goals in just 23 games for Mexican club Pachuca — Daily Star

Mustaphi is world class and needs to bed in, Kos is world class but needs a partner who is of equal measure, Ramsey is a pri Madonna who turns it on for country but NOT for club, Giroud just ai nt good enough and more importantly CONSISTANT enough to win the league, Walcott was rubbish and lazy and has improved but again is just not really consistent or good enough, Cazorla is world class but getting old and injury prone, coquelin is just not good enough, Bellerin is good but not world class just yet (though he will be), Monreal is ok but not world class Elneny is ok but not world class, and so on and on... the ONLY two players that any other team are consistently looking at are Sanchez and Ozil.

Brazil's Campeonato is packed with some of the most illustrious names in world football, yet the title of Brazil's oldest club goes to the tiny side of Sport Club Rio Grande, based in the deep south of the country.

Kipketer, 26, whose odyssey from a farm in the Great Rift Valley to an apartment in Copenhagen has been as challenging as any race, broke track's oldest world record in an Olympic event at the Weltklasse meet in Zurich on Aug. 13, proving that whatever his country, he belongs among his sport's alltime best.

The 24 - year - old is currently impressing at the World Cup with Algeria and is likely to start in the country's last 16 encounter with Germany on Monday night.

In all honesty you could plant Old Trafford anywhere else in the country or even the world and you would get a similar level of crowd interesIn all honesty you could plant Old Trafford anywhere else in the country or even the world and you would get a similar level of crowd interesin the country or even the world and you would get a similar level of crowd interest.

The 29 - year - old is having a brilliant World Cup in his home country, but will miss Brazil's semi-final tie against Germany at the Estadio Mineirao in Belo Horizonte on Tuesday due to suspension.

The 29 - year - old striker came off the bench for Northern Ireland on Saturday when Stuart Dallas» dramatic late winner strengthened the country's hold on second spot in their World Cup qualifying group.

The 33 - year - old defender is currently in Brazil playing for Les Bleus at the World Cup, and his agent is also in the South American country to talk to the left - back, according to Sky Sport Italia.

The 25 - year - old Barcelona forward was a key player for his country in the group stage of the tournament, as he helped them secure a runners - up spot in Group B — ahead of 2010 World Cup winners Spain.

Van Persie was suspended for the Netherlands» third and final Group B fixture which ended in a 2 - 0 win against Chile in Sao Paulo, but the 30 - year - old revelled in his country's third successive win at the World Cup (for his full reactions, click here).

That same year she also finished 11th in the World Cross Country Championships in China and here, over 25 laps in the Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast, the 21 - year - old surged with 500m to go and ran a 63 - second last lap to beat Stacy Ndiwa of Kenya as fellow Ugandan Mercyline Chelangat took bronze.

Barcelona's 20 - year - old Argentina forward Lionel Messi came third in the vote after emerging as a world - class talent for club and country.

One of the greatest runners in history, the 28 - year - old has won three Olympic and five world gold medals on the track, plus five world cross country titles.

The 22 - year - old, who played in all four of Nigeria's games at the 2014 World Cup and featured prominently as his country won the Africa Cup of Nations the year before, tells the official Chelsea website about the many different benefits his loan spell has brought...

The UK has one of the worst breastfeeding rates in the world, considering we are a country that knows how beneficial and amazing breastfeeding is, for some reason, research from 2015 shows that only 0.5 % of mums are still feeding their babies by the time they reach 12 months old.

We consider that our results are in line with the World Health Organization recommendation of exclusive breastfeeding until infants are 6 months old instead of 4 months, and our results support current health - policy strategies that promote exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months in industrialized countries.

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Here in the Philippines, its a practice to sleep beside your child until about 5 - 7 years old may it be because there is no other room available (remember we are a 3rd world country so many live in very small houses) or simply because they do nt want their baby unattended throughout the night.I myself grew up beside my mom AND grandma.naturally i co-slept (still is) with my daughters.

While breastfeeding rates are no longer declining at the global level, with many countries experiencing significant increases in the last decade, only 39 per cent of children less than six months of age in the developing world are exclusively breastfed and just 58 per cent of 20 - 23 month olds benefit from the practice of continued breastfeeding.

Certainly, he had inherited the former Prime Minister's eagerness for America to be involved in other nations» affairs (something which is anathema to the old left who see that country as a bullish, neo-colonial world policeman), saying to an American who queried what was wrong with U.S. disengagement that it was very concerning because only America has the financial resources and will power to cause large, lasting change in the world.

Lynne Featherstone and I were in Ethiopia, for whom Britain is now the first member of the G8 to have met the decades - old promise by rich countries to spend 0.7 % of our national wealth on aid for the developing world.

By the end of the 20th century, «many countries, especially in the more developed regions, had already achieved population structures older than any ever seen in human history,» says a report, World Population Ageing: 1950 - 2050, from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations.

With several countries in the Old World making a determined effort to counter the problem, there will be heavy international pressure on those in the New World to lift their game.

For the first time in decades the working age population fell in 2012, and China, the world's most populous nation, could be the first country in the world to get old before it gets rich.

The study used data collected in the Gallup World Poll, which conducts surveys in more than 150 countries, interviewing approximately 1,000 citizens (age 15 and older) per country.