Sentence examples for proper country from inspiring English sources

Like any proper country girl, though, she has learned to deal with it.

President Traian Basescu and other politicians in Bucharest sometimes treat their neighbour as a stray province, not a proper country.

Immigration was crucial in transforming Australia from a small and sparsely populated outpost of the British Empire to a proper country.

Yet its north-west bit, Somaliland, once a British protectorate that merged with Italian Somalia to form unified Somalia in 1960, actually feels like a proper country.

It can be a horrible little tax retreat for the ultra-rich and we can get back to having a proper country".

Many other Californians will think it looks suspiciously close to a parliamentary model more like the sort of thing that a proper country might have.

It is found that significant deviation exists between sources, and that all ground-station measurements display unknown uncertainty levels, thus highlighting the need for a proper, country-wide long-term resource assessment initiative.

It's been a hectic, if quite fun few weeks here at TechCrunch and we are just now back in our proper countries and states.

We're going to go over to proper countries that have a rational approach.

We are a proper international country now, not – as we used to call it – Rag-ass Rovers.

Schoenaerts, who is Belgian, can't manage a proper West Country accent, but, then, nor can anyone else in the film; the rustic group on whom Hardy depends, as a tragicomic chorus, becomes a mere backdrop.