Example sentences of "say that the country " in BNC.

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1 With the economy still barely growing , despite two fiscal packages in the past nine months , Japan 's critics say that the country is once more exporting its way out of recession .
2 It reminded him of shop stewards with their sleeves rolled up in those endless conferences when it was said that the country was being held to ransom .
3 But for the fact that the rioters supported the Government , itself widely believed to regard the riots with tacit approval , it could have been said that the country was on the point of revolution .
4 Last year a group of 45 Fortune 500 chief executives and university presidents , known as the Business-Higher Education Forum , published a report saying that the country could not ignore the growing isolation of its inner-city minorities .
5 I am not saying that the country should not consider the matter .
6 They urged Prime Minister Miklós Németh to reveal who had been privy to the intelligence information , and called for the dismissal of Interior Minister István Horváth ; they stopped short of calling for the government 's resignation , however , saying that the country needed stability before the elections .
7 Markovic said that the country 's fortunes now rested largely on the conduct of the various republics and autonomous regions which made up the federation .
8 The government said that the country faced a shortage of 1,000,000 tonnes of rice as a result of a poor harvest in 1990 caused by drought and an insufficient supply of fertilizer .
9 On Oct. 29 Sir Gaëtan Duval , leader of the opposition Parti Mauricien Social-Démocrate ( PMSD ) , said that the country was on the " brink of dictatorship " and reiterated his claims that the elections had been rigged .
10 The report said that the country 's economic management lacked " transparency and accountability " and indicated that there were " inconsistencies " in the government accounts .
11 He said that the country had surmounted a crucial test when price controls were lifted for most goods in January .
12 On air pollution , the report said that the country was responsible for 1.6 per cent of global emissions of carbon dioxide , twice the per capita average .
13 But he said it would be quite wrong to say that the country 's history had been one long mistake since the revolution .
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