Sentence examples for countries first from inspiring English sources

The ones coming from Europe should be looking for work in their own countries first.

Proposals to target NGDP are familiar in major industrialised countries, first arising in the 1980s.

CITES approved the sale of ivory by four southern African countries first to Japan and then, in 2008, to China.

Therefore it is inconceivable to promote sustainable development (SDG 15) without rich countries first acting on consumption (SDG 12).

It is decades since developed countries first sought to ensure that none of their citizens was left destitute.

The outcome is not a foregone conclusion; indeed, there is potential for considerable trouble.Take the applicant countries first.

It deliberately put poor countries first, placing particular priority on improving the access of their farmers to rich-country markets.

The Indian government faced a wave of public criticism last summer after the two countries first issued a joint statement saying they would work on resuming talks.

Here, and now, the Argentines and Yugoslavs are psyched and primed to be their countries' first gold medalists in an international competition that included N.B.A. players.

The biennial itself was a meeting ground, attracting 249 journalists from 26 countries (first-timers were from China, Georgia and Russia) and 79,060 spectators.

In many countries, first-time buyers are now finding it impossible to get on the bottom rung of the property ladder because they cannot scrape together the deposit.