Sentence examples for compact countries from inspiring English sources

Among the main points are: A social compact: countries committed to set up social protection systems, with national spending targets for essential services like health and education.

Under the euro zone's "fiscal compact", countries that break the deficit rules will face punishment, unless a qualified majority of other member countries votes to let them off.

The green links between North and South America, these seven compact countries would be easy to skip on a map.

It is in fact a highly urbanised and even compact country, with over half of its population living in just five cities, and almost 85% living in towns.

But Little believes one of the factors that won Giro organisers over is the "diverse and beautiful landscape we have in a compact country".

With more than a dozen all-news channels on the television dial, the last thing this compact country would seem to need is another one.

And the story of how Holland abandoned its departure tax because of the way it put off passengers cannot go unchallenged; the Netherlands is a small, compact country with other airports a short drive away in Germany and Belgium.

Battered, tragically, by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and wracked by a civil war from 1983 to 2009, many areas of South Asia's most compact country have remained off limits to even the most intrepid traveller.

In Britain, the specter of nuclear warfare has become especially menacing because of plans to base a new generation of intermediate-range nuclear missiles there, thus making that compact country a potential target of Soviet countermissiles.

The Swiss have managed it, but only after infighting and the passage of centuries to complete the Confoederatio Helvetica in a small, compact country with a more or less uniform lifestyle, ethnicity and traditions, plus a single currency (despite using three languages).The European Union is young.

Being a very small and compact country, the distribution of hospitals is fairly even in relation to the population spread and is generally not seen as particularly influencing demand in specific individual hospitals (Figure 3). Figure 3 Geographical map of Singapore with emergency department locations marked.