Sentence examples for applicants countries from inspiring English sources

Regarding the article "War swells ranks of refugees, U.N. finds" (March 25): The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees released figures showing an appreciable increase in asylum applications in industrialized countries in 2008, indicating that this increase was the result of civil unrest in the applicants' countries of origin.

"Some schools asked for parents' birth certificates, for applicants country of origin, whether they were UK nationals, whether the spoke English as an additional language and if they had any medical issues," it added.

Diplomats from the applicant countries wore long faces in Amsterdam.

If applicant countries meet the Copenhagen criteria, they are admitted.

The EU can thus shore up reformers in applicant countries.

Applicant countries would do better to form mutual-assistance alliances among themselves.

The 10 applicant countries are Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus.

Some MEPs complained that the applicant countries were not yet democratic enough to join the EU.

11 had a riveting effect on NATO and applicant countries," Mr. Armitage said.

But trying to do so by suspending expansion would damage both applicant countries and the EU itself.

The applicant countries joke grimly that they have been promised membership of the EU within five years every year since 1990.