Sentences with phrase «very small nation»

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

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

Not exact matches

America before 1930 was a society in which a small number of very rich people controlled a large share of the nation's wealth.

And recognizing Chelsea FC as an international brand with supporters of every race, creed, and nation around the world, it has made the actions of a very small collection of morons all the more frustrating to come to grips with as a lone fan.

If you really want to think about it with no emotion it is very simple to see why it was done late and why it was not done at the start of the transfer window, and that my friends is a small thing called the African Cup of Nations and therefore the loss of Gervinho.

If history is any guide we might expect the Conservatives to do a little better as most of the battleground seats have new Conservative incumbents, but only by a very small amount — the reality is that Con - Lab marginals do tend to behave in pretty much the same way as the nation as a whole does.

Other nations, such as Norway, have already begun fishing in newly opened Arctic waters — meaning the U.S. - controlled zone could be a very small refuge unless the government can persuade the seven other nations with Arctic Ocean claims to follow suit.

As global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the winds.

The small nation of Wakanda is a protected valley enclave in east Africa, hidden from outside eyes by some very advanced technology fueled by the alien metal vibranium, which arrived via asteroid millennia ago.

These scenes are mostly needless to Augustin's story, although they do offer a marginally interesting way of showing how the American media (and the world's for that matter) weren't very aware or interested in the mass genocide happening in a small African nation.

Yet it could also very well positively affect the entire world in many ways — both large and small — as individuals and nations better themselves through a greater understanding of the world around them.

At CEI, as with many across the nation, we were stunned by the senselessness of the acts of a lone gunman on a December day at a small school that was very much like many schools across the U.S. Like others, we keep asking: «why, and when will it stop, what will it take?»

There is not enough money in any nation's coffers to afford to mandate both high compensation and reduced teaching load and, at the same time, very small class sizes and a school staff that is twice the size of the professional teaching staff.

The Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer protection agency, says that regardless of their name, these small, short - term, high - rate loans by check cashers, finance companies and others all come at a very high price.

This small nation isn't very easy to reach by air since most carriers force you to connect first in Europe.

According to Wikipedia, Denmark (a very small and densely populated Scandinavian country that has more wind power per capita than any other nation) has quite a few off - shore wind farms, Sweden has only one wind farm with more than 10 turbines.

At the same time, small island nations are struggling for their very existence, hoping to hold on to their cultural and social histories.

In fact, climate change threatens the very existence of some small island nations.

In Illinois, like elsewhere in the nation, rollover incidents account for a very small number of the total crashes but a relatively high proportion of the total deaths caused in traffic accidents.

We are very proud of the response we are receiving for this product — it has been nominated for an award and is being used by many solo and small law firms across the nation.

Most — if not all — of the nation's leading law firms seek to become more diverse by using «very large hiring preferences» for African - Americans and smaller preferences for Hispanics.

However, these types of legal employers hire a very small percentage of all the nation's law school graduates, making these positions extremely competitive.

However, the governing Chiefs and Councils of these same First Nations often do not have a great appetite to resolve contentious family issues in what are usually very small communities.

At the same time, watching the growth of a site like www.visalaw.com, which was always one of the most successful law firm web sites, stay up to date on advancements in web tools and user sophistication is an easy lesson in what the web can mean to what once was a very small firm, and today is one of the nation's largest in immigration law.