Sentence examples for few member from inspiring English sources

Only a few member states, essentially Britain and a handful of other developed countries, want the Commonwealth to play an active role in promoting democracy and human rights.

Dubai is one of the few member states of the United Arab Emirates that has little oil wealth of its own.

Mr. Bustani had succeeded in securing pledges of support from only a few member states, officials said, among them, Russia, Iran, Cuba, and his native Brazil.

Moreover, the latest data reveals that still too few member states have responded to calls from Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia to provide the resources they need to cope with the refugee crisis.

As Otmar Issing, a former member of the E.C.B.'s executive board, put it in the Financial Times, both ideas are "worthy of satire," as they "imply huge financial risks for a few member countries and could … destroy the fundament on which such a process finally rests, namely the identification of the people with the European idea".

"Last year," the agency said, "passengers were able to board planes more than a billion times without having their passports screened against Interpol's databases... Unfortunately, few member countries systematically search these databases to determine whether a passenger is using a stolen or lost travel document to board a plane".

Few members of parliament now trust him.

A few members of the committee agreed.

Few members questioned Mr. Montgomery.

A few members went even further.

Few members have experienced such operations.