Sentences with phrase «tiny nation of»

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Malta may be a tiny nation of only 122 square miles over seven islands, but it's also one of the of the most densely populated countries in the world.

If you threw a dart at a map and wanted to aim for the center, provided you're a pretty good shot, chances are you'd landed on the tiny nation of... Read More...

There are lessons to be learned from other education systems, sure, but I don't think the nearly all - white, tiny nation of Finland is going to provide much guidance in how to solve our nation's biggest education problem, which is inequity.

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The tiny nation of Denmark has just three stations for monitoring atmospheric radiation.

The tiny nation of Uruguay (population half of London) got to their first semi final in 50 years through a mixture of skill and cheating.

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Gum chewing is forbidden and caning a risk, but the tiny island nation wins high marks from expats for ease of living, pleasant weather and safe, affordable street food.

(Believe it or not, six countries — Congo, Burundi, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, and the tiny island nation of Comoros — have higher rates.)

Each year, in the unlikely venue of a tiny opera house decked in gold - and - rose shells, the nation's technology elite gather and give voice to big ideas.

Missing mainland billionaire Xiao Jianhua received a diplomatic passport from Antigua and Barbuda just days before President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang met the prime minister of the tiny Caribbean nation in Beijing.

New Zealand and Sweden win the ranking of nations with the most top - ranked users per capita (that's assuming we exclude countries with less than 10 top - ranked users such as tiny San Marino).

«Only a tiny fraction of the nation's companies have demonstrated such remarkably consistent high growth,» said Eric Schurenberg, President and Editor in Chief, Inc..

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.

So far only a tiny fraction of the nation's financial advisors have broken away from both commissions and percentages.

Have we become so lost as a nation that someone with Limbaugh «s limited, perverse and hateful view of the world is even, for one tiny moment, considered as intelligent discourse?

Also, in a recent missions newsletter that I read, the writer made this statement, «Of the hundreds of thousands who make decisions for Christ in the evangelistic crusades in the third world nations (like Africa), only a tiny fraction end up regularly attending any church.&raquOf the hundreds of thousands who make decisions for Christ in the evangelistic crusades in the third world nations (like Africa), only a tiny fraction end up regularly attending any church.&raquof thousands who make decisions for Christ in the evangelistic crusades in the third world nations (like Africa), only a tiny fraction end up regularly attending any church.»

The Judaism of that time, however, had no other arm than to save the tiny nation, the guardian of great ideals, from sinking into the broad sea of heathen culture and enable it, slowly and gradually, to realize the moral teaching of the Prophets In civil life and in the present world of the Jewish state and nation.

The parable of the mustard seed in verses 30 - 32 has two points: (1) just as the tiny mustard seed can grow (in the Mediterranean area) into a fairly tall tree, so the humble start of the kingdom of God does not preclude a victorious ending; (2) the kingdom is now present, and all nations and peoples («birds of the air» was a phrase used by the rabbis to mean all people, including Gentiles) may now partake of it.

However, only a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of «Muslims» are actually terrorists, which is supported by the fact that most of the terrorist acts are done by the same few organizations, and ALSO supported by the fact that the 57 Islamic nations in the world are NOT run by al - Qaeda, and ALSO supported by the fact that the US still exists (if a big chunk of Muslims were terrorists, the US would not exist).

NCCN and NCFN between them account for most of the 1,500 tiny congregations scattered in the Hindu - majority nation in the foothills of the Himalayas.

With a population hovering around one million, 40 % of women ages 15 to 40 in this tiny tribal nation were HIV positive.

Joined to the quest for social justice at home was an increasing revulsion at our murderous behavior as a nation in the tiny and war - weary country of Vietnam.

First Isaiah lived at a time when the enemies of Judah were about to crush this tiny nation.

Seven years after vowing to punish countries that restrict religious freedom, the U.S. government announced sanctions against the tiny African nation of Eritrea.

In the light of that experience, we have read history again, noting the rise and fall of nations and cultures in cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the stars.

Which translates into — I was born on an island nation, Singapore, and we grew up feasting on seafood, and every type of fish, from the tiny ikan bilis to large garoupa fish.

He is barred because the government feels he doesn't have sufficient ties to a tiny island nation he never stepped foot in and its obvious he is just trying to get out of paying taxes.

The tiny island nation was the surprise team in the 2016 European Championships, reaching the quarterfinals after a stunning Round of 16 victory over England.

The schools and classroom interventions that I've described educate a tiny fraction of the nation's poor children, and they are competing against a dominant culture in education that only very rarely considers whether there might be another, better way to motivate and engage children who are growing up in poverty.

The nation also includes the tiny (0.6 square mile) uninhabited island of Redonda, now a nature preserve.

«Rawlinson and her daughters are part of a tiny but growing number of families in the United States, Canada, Germany and other modernized nations around the world that are ditching the diaper and embracing the way humans had raised their babies for millennia.»

Over 150,000 soldiers were killed during the Eritrean - Ethiopian war between May 1998 to June 2000, a situation which drastically reduced the male population in the tiny Eritrea nation of just 4 million people.

The swearing - in ceremony on January 19 was held at a fraught time for the tiny west African nation, as Jammeh was refusing to step aside and acknowledge the result of the election Barrow won several weeks earlier.

Bahrain is also still in the grip of a political uprising, with the tiny island nation undergoing a massive campaign of civil disobedience against the ruling Khalifa family.

Chris Keates, NASUWT General Secretary, said: «This tiny tax of 0.05 % on all financial transactions would raise billions towards paying off the nation's deficit.

Equatorial Guinea's veteran ruler, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, on Wednesday named his son Teodorin Nguema Obiang vice president of the tiny oil - rich nation, in charge of defence and security.

Albany County is the fifth local government in the state to ban the sale of personal care products containing microbeads, tiny abrasive plastic beads common in toothpaste and cosmetics that wash into the nation's waterways.

We should pick the best people for the job regardless of whether one tiny nation likes the person we choose.

«This will not be a sustainable coalition, we will be at the mercy of tiny parties that simply want to protect their nations from the cuts.

Ms Abbott tabled an Early Day Motion and requested a meeting with ministers to discuss how further help could be given to the tiny nation on the six month anniversary of the tragedy.

The tiny Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, for instance, funds an exoplanet search project that's nabbed a couple of worlds, dubbed Qatar - 1b and Qatar - 2b.

But they also make this tiny nation one of the richest per capita in the world, and its leaders have signaled no plans to restrict the country's economic engine.

San Antonio, NM: This tiny town, minutes from the Trinity Site, has been named home to two of the top 10 burgers in the nation, according to GQ and epicurious.com: at Buckhorn Tavern (575-835-4423) and the Owl Bar & Cafe, just across the street (505-835-9946).

In São Tomé and Príncipe, a tiny two - island island nation off the West African coast, bed net coverage was among the highest in Africa as early as 2007, and the majority of the population was also protected using indoor spraying between 2005 and 2007.

The tiny, oil - rich West African nation of Equatorial Guinea will host a new center set to collect information about science and innovation across the African continent.

(Twenty - seven kilometers of tunnel underground Designed with mind to send protons around A circle that crosses through Switzerland and France Sixty nations contribute to scientific advance Two beams of protons swing round, through the ring they ride»Til in the hearts of the detectors, they're made to collide And all that energy packed in such a tiny bit of room Becomes mass, particles created from the vacuum And then...)

Canada and Denmark are cooperating on their Arctic surveys, though the nations are vying for control of a tiny outcrop off Greenland.

Ecologists implanted tiny, battery - powered tags smaller than a pencil eraser into more than 8,159 fish migrating down the Columbia, the nation's fourth - largest river, and released those fish at one of four sites anywhere from about 140 to 245 miles upstream from the ocean.

December 26, 2017 • An art exhibition at the United Nations uses tiny models of refugees» former homes and the suitcases of refugees to tell their stories.