Sentence examples for countries issue from inspiring English sources

BERLIN — Typically, major countries issue ringing denunciations when privacy guarantees are breached and secret information is disclosed, particularly when such disclosures concern those nations' wealthiest individuals.

In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, Congress mandated that those countries issue electronically scannable passports that contain a biometric identifier.

Since countries issue their debt on the New York bond market, they agree, in theory, to submit to the jurisdiction of U.S. courts applying New York law.

While most countries issue identity cards, and many gather a lot of information about citizens, China also appears poised to go much further in putting personal information on identity cards, Ms. PoKempner added.

Analysts say that having euro-zone countries issue bonds as a group, instead of country by country, would lower costs for those in trouble, like Portugal and Ireland, but would raise Germany's own borrowing costs, which at the moment are the lowest in the 16-nation euro zone.

Many countries issued statements saying that negotiations under terrorist threats were out of the question.

In May, developing countries issued no foreign-currency sovereign debt, but companies from these economies raised $8 billion, PIMCO says.

Banks would earn fees from underwriting bonds and the ratings agencies earned fees from the countries issuing the debt.

As this type of investment has matured, fund managers say, so have the countries issuing the debt.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, whose members include all large industrialized countries, issued its annual employment outlook report this week, forecasting rising unemployment in many countries.

Spurred on by a victory in April 2001 against drug companies fighting patent reform in South Africa, developing countries issued a declaration at the WTO meeting in Doha last year.