Sentence examples for minor countries from inspiring English sources

These were all minor countries, like Mauritania, where AU action could prove effective.

The two may differ over specific issues such as Iraq, but they share a determination not to be tied down by common EU positions decided by the minor countries of the Union or the mostly even more minor ones due to join it.

The majority of minor country roads, however, are still gravel.

They also invited in bassist Shorty Horton and made several minor country recordings.

Henceforth, he would style himself a "minor country gentleman with a taste for letters".

In 1962, he scored a minor country hit with "Kentucky Means Paradise," a dobro-driven twanger that he cut with the Green River Boys, a bluegrass group.

Libya, strafed by British and American planes, may be in the headlines but it is a minor country: it is the destinies of the key three — Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran — that will decide everything.

Alexander Konuzin, the Russian ambassador to Serbia, berated his hosts at the Belgrade Security Forum, demanding to know whether there were any Serbs in the room (there were plenty) and scorning Serbia as a "minor country".

"Nothin' Better to Do," her terrific current single (and, so far, a minor country hit) is a brash, bluesy romp; "I Want You With Me," another highlight, gives her a chance to gently belt out a love song.

And there's a subplot that follows Willy Jack from jailhouse loser to minor country star, which gives Joan Cusack, who plays his Naugahyde-tough manager, a chance to steal a few scenes.

Joe's parents were also singers: Sarge and Shirley West scored a couple of minor country hits in the early 1970s, and Joe spent much of his childhood touring the honky-tonks of Arkansas and Texas.