Sentence examples for desirable country from inspiring English sources

The UK is more often chosen because it is seen as a desirable country to study in, while the US is chosen on the strength of individual institutions.

While championing and helping out his friends, he ended up with a major art collection; seeking calm isolation, he established a bohemian but desirable country seat.

One year ago, Iceland was named the most desirable country in the world.

So we are forced to go into ever less desirable countries.

"Countries that are too careless to whom they give citizenship may find their visa free access to desirable countries blocked.

Some will be offered a semi-desirable country that they are unlikely to accept, a move that allows Mr. Obama's team to satisfy their donors without actually hiring them.

"The political instability and turmoil that marks our neighbors makes Turkey a desirable transit country for those who want to reach Western Europe through illegal means," Hikmet Sami Turk, the Turkish justice minister, said recently.

France, always happy for new evidence that it is, in every way, the most desirable of countries to be born in, was gratified when (in October 1995) Mrs Calment passed the lifespan of a Japanese who had previously held this most competitive of records.

Education may be something fun and desirable that countries spend more on as they get richer, rather than being the engine of economic growth.Just supposing…Assuming the relation between test scores and future growth is indeed causal, the OECD study also works out the economic benefits of improving cognitive skills by the equivalent of nine months' worth of schooling.

Serbia lies on the so-called Balkan route, the main overland passage which hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Asia have taken to reach desirable 'destination countries' in northern Europe.

Second, fertile countries are both more desirable than barren countries and easier to conquer: they "are always of a level surface, where the inhabitants are unable to dispute against a stronger power; they are then obliged to submit; and when they have once submitted, the spirit of liberty cannot return; the wealth of the country is a pledge of their fidelity" (SL 18.2).