Example sentences of "[noun] to the third " in BNC.

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1 The only credible explanation is that Nkrumah , with Rhodesia fresh in his mind , felt he could not tolerate superpower indifference to the Third World any longer .
2 Plans for an Indo-Russian venture to manufacture and export tanks and aircraft to the Third World , anticipated during a recent visit by the Russian State Secretary Gennady Burbulis [ see p. 38914 ] , were confirmed on June 16 by Russia 's ambassador to India , Anatoly Drukov .
3 Swindon were in no danger of missing the boat to the third round … just to make sure player manager Glenn Hoddle hammered them into the lead after just three minutes …
4 Despite the lack of anything other than basic equipment for its armed forces , according to Nato estimates Romania topped the league of non-Soviet Warsaw Pact arms exporters to the Third World by the mid 1980s .
5 The Government 's opposition to the proposed EC ban on tobacco advertising , and the common agricultural policy ( in which heavily-subsidised high-tar tobacco is produced for export to the Third World ) , are nonsensical in health terms .
6 FRANCE is to step up its science aid to the Third World .
7 Other topics will be the level of aid to the third world , environmental issues , and the arms trade .
8 Since neither of the standard rationales for rich-country aid to the third world applied , the case rested on three essentially political arguments .
9 This convention , re-negotiated in 1980 and 1985 , provided greater aid to the Third World states , but its value to them was limited by the effects of inflation and the restrictions on agricultural trade with Europe caused by CAP .
10 The West began to see aid to Eastern Europe as more important than aid to the Third World — ‘ charity begins at home ’ .
11 We give more money to the Common Market budget than we give in aid to the third world .
12 They also agreed to a near doubling of aid to the Third World , but failed to reach a common position on the period of time over which the increase would be phased in .
13 But his department has been slow to ask for more cash for environmental aid to the Third World .
14 The Bishop of Oxford has appealed to the Government not to cut aid to the Third World .
15 Syrian Prime Minister Mahmoud Zubi visited Cairo on Feb. 7-11 , at the head of the Syrian delegation to the third session of the Higher Syrian-Egyptian Commission .
16 If the parties ' accountants agree on the figures without recourse to the third accountant their decision is still likely , depending on the words of the expert clause , to have the status of an independent decision : see 9.8.2 and Shorrock Ltd v Meggitt plc [ 1991 ] BCC 471 , discussed in detail at 13.7.7 .
17 They climbed the steps to the third floor and walked down a darkened corridor on the west side .
18 In industries of all types , ranging from textiles to automobiles and electronics , multinational corporations have transferred work to the Third World by setting up plants where cheap labour performed the most labour-intensive sub-processes in manufacturing .
19 The first part would ask voters whether they wanted a new republic or a return to the Third Republic .
20 Approximately three-quarters of this trade consists of deliveries from industrial countries to the Third World .
21 There is a walk that takes iii two of these sites of history and legend and gives you grand views across the Dales to the third .
22 Donnison and Soto point out that the ‘ establishment ’ in Britain has always had a dismissive attitude to the third category .
23 A black girl with an Afro haircut then asked what was Grunte 's attitude to the Third World .
24 At the latest within three years from the start of the second phase , the Commission and the Council of the monetary institution would report … on the functioning of the second phase and in particular on the progress made in real convergence , in order to prepare the decision concerning the passage to the third phase , which will occur within a reasonable time …
25 Smith , born Down Under but with Irish grandparents , leads Oxford against a World XV in a match to raise funds for GOAL , an Irish-based international charity which provides financial assistance to the Third World .
26 ‘ Besides , ’ he added ill-advisedly , ‘ banks have been losing money hand over fist to the Third World . ’
27 According to CIA estimates , Latin America ( excluding Cuba ) was allocated only 5.6 per cent of the aid extended by the Soviet Union to all non-Communist developing countries over the period 1954–78 , and received less than 2.5 per cent of Soviet military deliveries to the Third World .
28 Suppose , for example , that there was some fundamental change in the circumstances that had been the basis for the grant of the right to the third party , and that this change radically transformed the extent of the obligations of the parties .
29 The West regularly sends shiploads of toxic waste to the Third World , and if countries decline to take it , the waste is frequently dumped anyway .
30 While there is no convincing evidence that the TNCs can bring salvation to the Third World , in many poor countries the TNCs are seen as responsible for the only bright spots in the economy and society .
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