Sentence examples for mass of countries from inspiring English sources

To get a trade round started, all 142 members, or at least a critical mass of countries, must be on board.No other effective international body works this way.

We also need to build coalitions on issues that unite a critical mass of countries and institutions that can make a difference, as Oxfam and many others did over reform and funding for Gavi.

That doesn't mean that the exercise is pointless – on the contrary, it is desperately important that we convene, debate and consider how we might get to the point where a critical mass of countries would set themselves the sort of stretch targets needed to tackle the security issues outlined above.

One environmental organization has already suggested that if commitments pledged before and during the talks in Paris are met, a critical mass of countries could reach emissions peaks by 2030.

It would also break the rules set out in the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty signed by Moscow and Washington, which forbids either nation from establishing a missile defense system to protect the entire land mass of their countries from attack.

Maybe it's because it is dead – or maybe because I now expect less from what's essentially just a mass of land – but the country does seem slightly less horrendous than it used to.

The mopane woodlands in Botswana cover 85,000 km2, i.e. 15% of the total land mass of the country and 16% of the total area covered by mopane woodlands in southern Africa (Mapaure 1994).

Along with the Americans, they aim to use the coming months to build up a critical mass of European countries ready to recognise a unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo when the talks inevitably fail.

Without a critical mass of participating countries, however, the convention does not carry as much weight.

In that space, we found the centre of mass of all countries, which represents the average behaviour of news content in the EU, and measured the Euclidean distance of each country from that centre.

Kan defended the gradual widening of the exclusion zone, and his conversion to a non-nuclear energy policy: "If there is a risk of accidents that could make half the land mass of our country uninhabitable, then we cannot afford to take that risk".