Example sentences of "country [prep] the third " in BNC.
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1 | Furthermore , this identification of modernity with life in industrial societies contrasts them with all preindustrial societies ( both in a historical sense and in those countries of the Third World that have barely been touched by industrialism ) . |
2 | They contended that pornography , lawlessness and other social disorders have been carried from the more permissive societies of the West , via the mass media , to the countries of the Third World . |
3 | The countries of the Third World in particular need them desperately for medical purposes , as the synthesized drugs are so expensive . |
4 | Whereas the role of executive princess touring the troubled countries of the Third World has gone to the Princess Royal , there has lately been much written on the theme of the Princess of Wales as ‘ caring princess ’ . |
5 | Among the non-aligned countries of the Third World , that 's a very common view . |
6 | Undoubtedly we are living through a period of considerable political instability , in which there is a complex ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ ( to use Habermas ' expression ) not only in the capitalist societies but also in the former communist societies of Eastern Europe , and in many countries of the Third World ; but the crisis works itself out through an international system of relationships , and such events as the overthrow of President Allende 's government in Chile , or American and Soviet military intervention in various regions of the world in the postwar period , can not be fully comprehended unless they are seen in the setting of global political conflicts . |
7 | One of the worst forms of slavery today is practised by the developed countries when they keep down the prices of basic products by subsidizing and dumping products and so competing with those that are vital for the countries of the Third World2 . ’ |
8 | I would like to enlighten public opinion about our role and our operations in our member countries of the Third World . |
9 | A study of these perceptions and attitudes thus provides the clue to the understanding of significant tendencies in the countries of the Third World . |
10 | Although developing countries are generally increasing their use of oil , many of the poorest and non-oil-producing countries of the Third World are , of necessity , still using wood as their main fuel ( see the beginning of the chapter ) . |
11 | Women 's work in the countries of the Third World is generally rendered ‘ invisible ’ by normal national accounting procedures because it usually takes place outside the conventional sphere of wage labour , mostly on the family farm and in the home . |
12 | What some writers now term the ‘ widening gap ’ between the rich and the poor , both within countries and between the First and the Third Worlds , might tempt us to subscribe pessimistically to the view that the countries of the Third World are passive victims of the exercise of First World hegemon countries ' power . |
13 | Foreign direct investment in some countries of the Third World has resulted in a predominantly male state sector industrial labour force being augmented by many more women in private , especially foreignowned , industry . |
14 | His results refute the commonly expressed ‘ irrational economic nationalism ’ explanation of forced divestment in the countries of the Third World . |
15 | Although schistosomiasis rarely kills people , its debilitating effect is a burden to many countries in the Third World . |
16 | Apart from the Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe ( Poland , Hungary , Czechoslovakia , East Germany , Yugoslavia , Bulgaria , Rumania ) , Albania and China , more than twenty countries in the Third World subscribe to an official Marxist outlook ( including Afghanistan , Algeria , Angola , Cambodia , Congo , Cuba , Ethiopia , Guinea-Bissau , Iraq , Laos , Libya , Mauritania , Mozambique , North Korea , Yemen , Syria , Vietnam , the PLO in Palestine and SWAPO in South West Africa ) ; and many more , although not officially Marxist , espouse various forms of socialism derivative of Marxism . |
17 | Other confirmed venues are Santiago ( for South American countries in the third quarter ) and Cairo ( for North Africa and the Middle East in the fourth quarter ) . |
18 | And it says that 's what 's happening to the poorest communities , the poorest countries in the Third World . |
19 | Some say straight to where most countries in the Third World stand today , with their dog-eat-dog labour relations and ever-widening divide between rich and poor . |
20 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
21 | The immense significance of the bureaucracy , politically , economically and socially , in the political systems of countries in the Third World has produced a variety of attempts to explain this phenomenon , including a theory of the post-colonial state which relates the pivotal position of the bureaucracy to the unique role of the state in conditions of underdevelopment ( Hirschmann 1981 ) . |
22 | Approximately three-quarters of this trade consists of deliveries from industrial countries to the Third World . |