Sentence examples for serving as the world from inspiring English sources

So the country is serving as the world's laboratory for selling to older consumers.

With his 500-page novel serving as the world's most detailed outline, Franzen envisions a show that will run four seasons and come with a definite ending.

But it also benefits emerging rivals such as China and India, which shoulder none of the burden of serving as the world's policeman.At the same time, the two things most consistently cited by Arabs and Muslims as their main objections to America and which therefore serve as the biggest rallying calls to jihad are its support for Israel and the regional presence of American forces.

It has already forced American shoppers to stop serving as the world's shoppers.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has never fulfilled its original mission of simultaneously serving as the world's pre-eminent public health authority and intergovernmental platform for global health negotiations.

But more than that, Roach said in a speech Monday that the Great Recession is serving as a long-running crisis that will force Asia particularly China to change its pattern of serving as the world's factory.

Norman wanted a new bank that would serve as the "world's first international financial institution," LeBor writes.

If the director Martin Scorsese can do a horror film, then the South by Southwest film festival next month can serve as the world premiere for a soccer film, right?

In addition to summer water activities, a section of the Rideau Canal in Ottawa serves as the world's longest ice rink (7.8 km [4.8 miles]).

These questions all have to do with the notion of humanitarian intervention, a concept for which Kouchner has served as the world's spokesman.

It was precisely because the United States could not serve as the world's policeman that it needed the United Nations to intervene in crises around the world.