Sentence examples for records of countries from inspiring English sources

Amnesty never compares or ranks the human rights records of countries.

Britain's critics may say it has always been selective in its criticisms and only ever targeted the rights records of countries of no economic or strategic importance.

The fund's economists return to its records of countries' fiscal policies to identify years when the government raised taxes or cut spending in order to tame the deficit.

John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace, whose investigation unit unearthed the overseas travel figures, said they showed the UK was prepared to ignore the human rights records of countries that could help it meet its energy needs.

Joko Widodo defended the executions as Australia's human rights commissioner, Gillian Triggs, suggested foreign aid should be more directly linked to improving the human rights records of countries in the region.

With the eyes of the world on Russia and Sochi the next couple of months, we have the leverage to successfully press the Russian government to repeal the country's discriminatory anti-gay laws and press the IOC to take into account the human rights records of countries vying to host the Olympics.

This was the heyday of singer-songwriters (many of whom gravitated to Asylum Records), of country rock artists, and of disco (particularly that produced by Casablanca Records).

We have applauded the United States for being among the few nations on the commission willing to condemn the brutal human rights record of countries like China.

"The Conservative government rightly condemned Fidel Castro for his human rights record, but have fallen completely silent when it comes to the appalling record of countries they have been cosying up to in the Middle East".

Her dizzying world tour shattered the previous record of countries visited by Secretaries of State, held by Madeline Albright, who saw 98 different nations from 1997 to 2001.

This also means that measuring environmental impact in traditional production-related terms makes the environmental record of countries such as Switzerland look far better than they actually are.