Sentence examples for countries down from inspiring English sources
DONALD RUMSFELD'S scornful dismissal of France and Germany as "old Europe" was plainly intended to cut the two countries down to size.
The team will winnow the videos, which came from 197 countries, down to 100 hours and begin sharing some results at youtube.com/lifeinaday, in September.
The euro zone's bail-out of Cyprus, which was sealed in the early hours of Saturday, did get the bill for creditor countries down from €17 billion to €10 billion, as had been rumoured.
The bank now thinks GDP in the developed world will grow by 1.4% this year (down from a previous estimate of 2.7%) and by 5.4% in developing countries (down from 6.2%).
Today U.S. policy needs to focus on how to bring these countries down from the rogue tree into a U.S.-dominated international system, without their falling -- splat -- on the ground.
He was one of those dinosaurs who had ruled dictatorially for too long, classic examples being Mobutu in Zaire and Eyadéma in Togo, both of whom were so fixated on power they nearly brought their countries down with them.
He burned the country down".
I thought we let our country down tonight".
"We can't lock our country down," Mr. Conyers said.
"Iceland was the first country down, it was the first country up," Mr. Skarphedinsson said.
"She thought she had let her country down," Carroll said of Fratianne.
