Sentence examples for country grasped from inspiring English sources

As has been a pattern during this strange election year, long-anticipated highlights were again upstaged by historical new lows, and what remained to be seen was how much the country grasped the enormity of the disruption under way, and how much it cared.

He believed that his country could be saved only if other countries grasped the gathering tragedy and responded.

Unless emerging countries grasp the nettle now, by training their supervisors, hiring people from the private sector and, if necessary, bringing in new rules, prickly times could lie ahead.

After years of being discounted as an unavoidable cost of economic progress, air pollution is rising up the political and economic agendas, as developing countries grasp that the crisis threatens to cripple their economies and lead to simmering dissent.

After the British withdrew from his country, Mugabe grasped the opportunity and ran in national elections on the promise that he would distribute Zimbabwe's resources more equitably.

Departments of economics across the country now grasped the importance of free markets.

There is thus a reasonable, rational basis for a State to conclude that persons owing first loyalty to this country will grasp these traditions and apply our concepts more than those who seek the benefits of American citizenship while declining to accept the burdens of citizenship in this country.

This idea remains difficult for people outside the country to grasp.

It's a seductively simple vision, and lawmakers across the country are grasping at it, pushing Arizona-style copycat laws.

More important, privatization has become an educational process by which the people of a country can grasp the fundamental beliefs and values of free enterprise.

We urge the government to act now in the interests of the country – to grasp this unique opportunity to work with others and set the NHS and care system on a new trajectory for the next 70 years.