Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the third world " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to give to charity , but I 'm torn between helping someone ‘ on my own doorstep ’ or in the Third World ’ . |
| 2 | In summary , these are : i ) low-income countries will not lose so much in the way of earnings if their population is damaged by pollution , since wages are so low anyway ; ii ) under-populated countries in regions such as Africa are effectively " under-polluted " compared to urbanized areas such as Los Angeles or Mexico City — ideally , there should be a " world-welfare-enhancing trade in air pollution and waste " ; and iii ) environmental concern , on health and aesthetic grounds , is much more acute in high-income countries than in the third world , where direct alleviation of poverty is seen as more pressing . |
| 3 | If anything , he says , the IASC could be accused of focusing too much on countries in Continental Europe and Japan , rather than on the Third World , in an effort to put the framework of basic accounting standards in place . |
| 4 | Many TNCs in and of the Third World , and even some in and of the Second World , have entirely independent systems of communication and , of course , more or less all sovereign states run their own mass media . |
| 5 | So how do you deal with the middle people with fair trading , and with the Third World goods ? |
| 6 | He derided those who thought it was ‘ all right to stay in opposition so long as your socialist heart is pure ’ , and argued it was not they who suffered , but the poor in Britain and in the third world : ‘ We are not just a debating society . |
| 7 | The leading element in this upheaval was the student movement , and although students became independently active in political life all over the world — in Eastern Europe and in the Third World just as much as in the West — the principal expression of a distinctive radical doctrine and mode of political action , which became to a large extent a model for the whole international movement , was to be found in the US , in the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) . |
| 8 | But Japan has also begun to play a major foreign policy role , gaining great influence in the UN , the World Bank — and in the Third World , by virtue of its being the largest aid-giver . |
| 9 | The number of cars will grow from 400 million today to 700 million by 2010 , and in the Third World alone 16.6 billion tonnes of carbon will be emitted annually by 2025 . |
| 10 | A sensible aid policy — not just for Russia and Eastern Europe , but for the third world in general — calls for careful priorities , realistic goals and , above all , an understanding that the quality of aid matters much more than the quantity . |
| 11 | What is interesting is that , while in the Third World education is still seen as ( and still is ) a pathway to a new economic existence , here in the Western World we have passed along that pathway and are fast approaching a crossroads without any identifying markers . |
| 12 | This happens in the First World as well as in the Third World . |