Sentences with phrase «small nation»

This is a marvelous step, but how can the many smaller nations establishing such areas possibly safeguard them?

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

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

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

Many smaller nations have fast, cheap broadband instead of our mess.

A historical epic is what a director makes when he wants to matter again: a globe - trotting sword - and - sandal spectacular that has everything from small nations of extras to bellicose pachyderms on the payroll.

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

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).

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

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.

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

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

I'm hearing the same from the Brazilians and Mexicans, from Canada and from smaller nations like Costa Rica and Colombia.»

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

Politics is already a challenge at the IWC, where small nations sometimes trade votes for economic benefit.

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.

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.»

Explains how smaller nations get whipped around by the economics of larger nations.

«Long - term players will become stealthier information gatherers, while newcomers will look for ways to steal money and disrupt their adversaries,» McAfee Labs report states, predicting that more small nation states and terror groups will use cyber warfare.

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

The ranking is the result of interviews with 5,144 people from 10 countries, but Canada wasn't included (while Australia, a notably smaller nation, was).

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.

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.

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.

Small nations look outward.

But perhaps the real scandal is that many industrialised nations, which enjoy lecturing small nations about their environmental inadequacies, have also chickened out.

On one level, both guy - friendly bloodbaths are about charismatic loners who kill small nation's worths of bad guys, many professional killers, in legitimately cool ways.

There's a bit of MacGyver going on, with some dubious on the spot inventions (isn't it curious some films will have mobile phones forever out of range, yet others will allow the common laptop to topple small nations?)

Nor is telling people that you drive one a good way to make girls swoon, casual acquaintances gasp or small nations revere you as a God and plaster your likeness across a range of commemorative postage stamps.

Emerging countries refer to smaller nations whose economies are not as developed or as industrialized as the economies of larger countries.

In other words, relatively small nations find it much easier to outsource their defense needs from U.S. contractors.

Also known as the «Most Serene Republic of San Marino,» the world's fifth smallest nation is an enclaved microstate completely surrounded by Italy.

It's not only large nations like China and India that are developing large - scale infrastructure, but also smaller nations like South Korea building many right - sized plants in record time to meet growing demand.

While big nations cooperating is a definite plus to the climate effort, the U.N. still needs smaller nations to work with the organization, particularly when they are the ones most at risk for the effects of climate change in the world.

NOTE: There are a number of other, smaller nations which get all or nearly all of their electricity from hydropower — Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nepal, others — but considering that none of these actually produce much electricity to start with I took them out the running.

Liechtenstein is one of many small nations punching above their weight in the blockchain space, perhaps capitalizing on the inherently slower regulatory efforts made by larger countries.

And while Indonesia and Brazil remain the world's tropical forest loss leaders, other smaller nations like Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and Madagascar are contributing more and more to the overall total, according to recent satellite data from the University of Maryland and Google.

Thus far, the strategic scenarios are not clear and they remain uncertain considering, on the one hand, the heterogeneous tradition of the nation - states themselves and, on the other hand, the political histories of these city - regional small nations.

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?

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

This raised concerns from the audience and following discussion groups about biosecurity although it was stated that in many small nations, pest and disease issues were already widespread.

However, Isaiah 54, in its original context, was a statement of restoration spoken to small nation of people who had been conquered by an imperial power, witnessed the destruction of their sacred places and been exiled into a foreign land.

For global nomads, roaming bills can quickly rival a small nation's GDP.

MOLDOVA: The EU has perhaps warmed most to the small nation of Moldova, which borders EU member Romania.