Sentence examples for sporting nations from inspiring English sources
Many other sporting nations have major problems.
The West Indies was the greatest union of sporting nations in history; yet on October 17th the latest of many recent crises put its future in jeopardy.In this section Losing your immunity The calypso ends Brazil and its backyard ReprintsOn a tour of India the West Indian team went on strike in a pay dispute with their administrators.
Those such as Margaret Thatcher who saw the apartheid state as an important bulwark against the spreading communist threat in southern Africa could never understand why South Africa was excluded from the family of sporting nations when the Soviet Union, Iran, China and other tyrannies were not.
The Commonwealth Games are, at times, criticised for their lack of competition, with many of the world's leading sporting nations not able to take part.
"That means supporting British administrators to secure international leadership positions to ensure that the UK, as one of the world's leading sporting nations, has a strong voice in developing world sport.
This group realized that Australia has a great reputation as one of the world's best sporting nations.
A more mature – and successful – sporting nation would probably let Robson and Daley get on with things more quietly.
At least for the moment, the aspirations of the world's mightiest sporting nation rest on the shoulders of 18 boys barely capable of a single moustache between them.
Craven, who said the next World Cup hosts were not fit to stage any major sporting events until their anti-doping system was reformed, added: "Russia is a great sporting nation.
Scotland is a proud sporting nation.
I can't say Lesotho is a proud sporting nation.
