Sentence examples for compact country from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
But Little believes one of the factors that won Giro organisers over is the "diverse and beautiful landscape we have in a compact country".
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.
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.
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.
Without severely curtailing the social compact, the country could face bankruptcy, and if they do reel in social spending, widespread unrest will undoubtedly result.
For example, we believe that IHP+Results has been able to describe and measure some incremental improvements in the strengthening of national planning processes and of principles around mutual accountability (through the global compact and country compacts).
