Sentence examples for functioning country from inspiring English sources

But when you land in São Paulo you see right away that Brazil is a serious, developed, functioning country.

His soldier's hatred for politicians suggested that he knew just how they had botched the transition from Communism — by tearing apart a troubled but functioning country in their blood-spattered grabs for power.

"Its leading members believed we would find an oil-rich, functioning country, that we'd be met by cheering crowds, that all we had to do was sweep out the top Baathist layers, implant our favorite exiles and watch democracy take root as the bulk of our troops returned home by Christmas".

But transforming this Southeast Asian nation from an isolated backwater into a modern, functioning country will probably require a different set of skills.

But Turkey is at least a functioning country.

And the military expense is only a fraction of the total expense of making Iraq into a functioning country.

To ensure drugs and medical supplies are made available in a timely way at health facilities, a functioning country-wide drug supply system should be in place.

However, most countries showed consistent patterns of associations with the GALI for ADL and IADL analyses, but not for functioning: countries with a strong association between the GALI and ADL also tended to exhibit a strong association between the GALI and IADL.

That's because we will never build a functioning state in a country where there has never been one.

With its economy barely functioning, the country appeared unlikely to meet those obligations.

Items that exhibited differential item functioning between countries were also removed from the measure.