Sentence examples for a run of world from inspiring English sources

The collapse of Yugoslavia and resultant Bosnian war from 1992-95 would suggest a crack at Croatia might reflect local political tensions but a run of World Cup misses features one side twice: Portugal – play-off defeats before the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012, with the second-leg of the latter tie lost 6-2 – are Bosnia's bogeymen.

With their ability to grind and manufacture runs, the 1970s Yankees were worthy ancestors to the mid-1990s crew that began a run of four World Series titles in five years.

Yet there was much curling drama in 1998, when Switzerland upset Canada for the men's gold medal while the Canadian women, led by Sandra Schmirler, beat Denmark to put the punctuation on a run of three world titles.

No team has won consecutive titles since the Yankees in 1999 and 2000, the capper to a run of four World Series victories in five years.

Scotland go into the friendly having ended a disappointing run of World Cup qualifying results by defeating Croatia in Zagreb.

As the day progresses, The Times's foreign operation will reel in stories from five continents, operating on overdrive as it has since January when an extraordinary run of world events began.

Formally, Pakistan calls itself a democracy, but it has no sitting parliament.If Pakistan were a run-of-the-mill third-world dictatorship, few apart from its 134m citizens would care.

The Yankees were the defending World Series champions and in the midst of a run of three consecutive World Championships, while Boston had not appeared in the ALCS since 1990.

The core of the team has done this before, the most recent part of a run of six straight World Cup trips, an active streak longer than even Mexico's.

Until it all went wrong, Nigel Stepney was celebrated as the chief mechanic of the Ferrari grand prix team during the era in which Michael Schumacher was breaking records with a run of five consecutive world titles in the Italian cars.

The Indians twice came within a run of winning the World Series.