Example sentences of "[art] [adj] countries ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowning absurdity of the rich countries ' current thinking on aid is not , however , their preference for lots of tied aid to not-terribly-poor countries , but their fondness for combining big cheques with barriers to trade . |
| 2 | That would only hasten the rich countries ' relative decline . |
| 3 | The treaty and related documents , including separate protocols and declarations , were signed by the 12 countries ' Foreign and Finance Ministers . |
| 4 | The criminal law , in other words , condemns the importation of murderous terrorist acts usually against powerful individuals or strategic institutions , but goes all quiet when governments export or support avoidable acts of killing usually against the under-developed countries ' poor . |
| 5 | According to forecasts by the Paris-based OECD , the industrial countries ' economic think-tank , Austria 's GDP will fall by 0.4% in 1993 . |
| 6 | Reflecting the Nordic countries ' close relations with the Baltic states Iceland on Aug. 26 , 1991 , became the first country formally to establish diplomatic relations with Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania [ see p. 37945 ] . |
| 7 | On June 6-9 Albania hosted , for the first time , a meeting of the Balkan countries ' national commissions for UNESCO . |
| 8 | Not only were the values of other currencies effectively pegged to the dollar ( formally speaking , to gold ) but dollars had to make up the greater part of the other countries ' official holdings of reserves . |
| 9 | All payments between Kazakhstan and Russia have to pass through the two countries ' central banks . |
| 10 | In a speech delivered on Nov. 16 Zhu indicated that China was fully prepared to link its dispute with the UK over Hong Kong with the two countries ' future economic relations . |
| 11 | The two countries ' joint campaigning body , Stop Acid Rain , is unremitting in its promotion of the case against acid rain . |
| 12 | The two countries ' joint forestry committee has called for retaliatory action , including a ban on imports of certain EC products , to be taken by the forthcoming meeting of economic ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 13 | The war , which arose over the two countries ' rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea , was widely regarded in Russia as the product of intrigue at court and among a handful of entrepreneurs , and aroused little patriotic enthusiasm . |
| 14 | The main item on the agenda will be reduction of troop numbers along the two countries ' common border . |
| 15 | A breakthrough occurred at the funeral of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito in February 1989 when Suharto held talks with Qian , and the two countries ' respective UN missions as a consequence began normalization talks [ see pp. 36462 ; 36935 ; 37124 ; 37578 ] . |
| 16 | He convened a group within the cabinet to wrest control of Japan 's end of the two countries ' Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks from the civil servants . |
| 17 | In her 15-minute speech she spoke of the two countries ' shared ideals , including democracy , stability and a rejection of the power which " grows from the barrel of a gun " . |
| 18 | The Washington Post of Feb. 12 reported that Arens made a request for greater US-Israeli co-ordination , including sharing of so-called " friend-or-foe " recognition codes to avoid conflict between the two countries ' military aircraft in the event of Israel entering the conflict . |
| 19 | During a visit by the Italian President , Francesco Cossiga , in November , the two countries ' Foreign Ministers signed a protocol on the construction of a fourth gas pipeline across the Mediterranean and on increased co-operation in the petrochemicals sector . |
| 20 | The two countries ' Foreign Ministers had been presented with the proposals by Pérez de Cuéllar at the ninth Non-aligned Movement ( NAM ) summit earlier in the month [ see p. 36907 ] . |
| 21 | Talks were also held between the two countries ' Foreign Ministers , who discussed the Cambodian question , and between the Ministers of Economic Relations and Trade . |
| 22 | The snub has sparked fears that the Clinton administration is about to put the two countries ' special relationship on hold in retaliation for Tory support of George Bush in the presidential campaign . |