Sentence examples for nations perceived from inspiring English sources

Several Asian nations, perceived by many as having lost any chance of growth for at least five years, are starting to show impressive turnarounds.

Relatedly, the misconstruction of international crime for warfare has stimulated ISIS recruitment and likely invited similar "warfare" to be launched into the workplaces and sports arenas of nations perceived as infidels in the flat, humorless two-dimensional Islamic fundamentalist way of describing their closed-minded, mischaracterization of world events.

Other nations, perceiving that the vast bulk of the prisoners held for so long at Guantánamo Bay came from the same line of ineffectual incompetents or unlucky innocents, and seeing the awful photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, were shocked that the nation that was supposed to be setting the world standard for human rights could behave that way.

In a world of declining demand and shrinking trade, nations perceive less of a need to cooperate with each other.

As Minister, Joseph oversaw a "back-to-basics approach" to tourism, attempting to have the nation perceived as one known "for its cleanliness, tidiness, natural beauty and pristine environment".

But other factors contribute to how a nation is perceived.

The previous Pentagon strategy review focused on a four-square chart that described security challenges to the nation as perceived then.

Yet his lowest point came when, returning from a summit in sunny Guadeloupe at the height of the winter of discontent, he denied to journalists waiting at the airport that the nation was perceived abroad to be in chaos.

They draw strength from using China's classical glory to defend the nation against perceived attacks, but they haven't translated that into a position on issues such as humanitarian intervention or nuclear proliferation — or, for that matter, the spread of democracy through force.

And while he and the seven other carefully vetted candidates might disagree on issues like women's rights and economic troubles, when it comes to Iran's nuclear program they are all saying the same thing: there will be no backing down, no bargaining away the nation's perceived right to enrich uranium for power generation.

(Read the rest of Farah's column here, for more explanations of the nation's perceived decline).