Sentence examples for former countries from inspiring English sources

It was made possible by the opening, after 1989, of archives in Russia and former countries in the Eastern Bloc.

However, Michel Platini, the French president of UEFA, has done more than anyone else to bring the former countries from the Eastern Bloc into Europe's sporting mainstream.

Courts in their former countries are waiting to try the likes of General Mengistu (living in Zimbabwe), Baby Doc Duvalier (in France) and Raoul Cedras (in Panama).

He said Russia had "begun to be a bit bearish again" and added: "I think the former countries of the USSR are feeling a little nervous.

"The U.S.S.R. has begun to be a bit bearish again, and I think, in general, the former countries of the U.S.S.R. are feeling a little nervous".

The industry was privatized in 1997; nevertheless, Moldova has one of the lowest numbers of cellular phone and Internet users of all the former countries of the Soviet Union.

Napthine is 62, a former country vet, folksy and personable.

A former country schoolhouse, the Belfry is loud and rustic with a bar full of locals.

The museum here at the former country estate of Anton Chekhov is just such a place.

They may play a part in their former country's politics, because many emigration countries allow dual citizenship.

Soon after, Wighton passed and his former Country teammate Aitken took an intercept.