Sentence examples for countries to match from inspiring English sources

But increasing energy use in developing countries to match that of industrialized nations would be unacceptable on ecological grounds.

In environmental matters, he sees Sweden as a European leader, and wants to persuade other EU countries to match its own high standards.

The report called on those countries to "match their condemnation with action, instead of satisfying themselves with the narrative of reform while ignoring the reality of repression".

It also buys supplies, like vaccines or mosquito nets, but then tries to get rich countries to match its donations and poor countries to get organized well enough to distribute the goods.

It also would bring the U.S. more in line with nations like Japan and West Germany, where research and development growth rates have been rising faster than in the U.S., enabling these countries to match U.S. development spending as a percentage of their gross national products.

It, and other developing countries, may have been promised $30bn as "fast-start finance" before $100bn a year is theoretically mobilised for developing countries in 2020, but the global recession and reluctance by rich countries to match their pledges with money have meant that most of them receive far less than they expected and has led to a loss of trust in the talks.

Princeton's experience will be hard for any team in the country to match.

Surely the aim should be for every school in the country to match London's achievements?

The No camp in Ireland talked of Ireland losing "voting weight" under Lisbon, which tweaks the allocation of votes wielded by each country to match population size more closely (this is of most interest to Germany, which has too few votes under current rules).

Also, "peace" has a pleasing relationship with "stability," which is emerging as the realist, scaled-down, but nonetheless daunting goal in Afghanistan among many foreign-policy types who, for one reason or another, believe that the United States ought to trim its ambitions in that country to match our resources and abilities.

It is only fitting that we now have the best facilities in the country to match their efforts.