Sentence examples for countries lie from inspiring English sources

HOW far is it from Athens to America and which countries lie on the way?

SEVEN of the world's eight most violent countries lie on the bloody trafficking route from the cocaine fields of the Andes to the nostrils of North America.

Indeed, the chief trading partners of most South and Southwest Asian countries lie outside the region in the European Union, North America, and East Asia.

Two of the most threatened countries lie on Europe's eastern frontier: Bulgaria and Romania, which have racked up high current account deficits and are running overheated economies.

The underlying causes of security failures in developing countries lie in poverty, which can be eliminated through growth in trade, education, health and economic investments.

There's a book by an economic theorist Ha-Joon Chang, a bestseller called Bad Samaritans; it's about globalisation, and how rich countries lie about how they got rich, and give poorer countries bad advice on getting rich.

The Central Asian countries lying between them include volatile and inexperienced regimes.

As more countries lay fibre-optic cables, Zambian copper miners are laid off.

Under international law five countries lying partly in the Arctic Circle Russia, the United States, Canada, Norway and Denmark are limited to a 200 mile (320km) economic zone from their shores.

Our honor, as people and countries, lies in being seen to conduct ourselves with kindness and mercy to the less fortunate, not in winning games or battles.

Russian was also taught extensively in those countries lying within the Soviet sphere of influence, especially in eastern Europe, in the second half of the 20th century.