Sentence examples for standard countries from inspiring English sources

"We travel two to three times a year to not very standard countries -- Guatemala, Oman, Libya.

Under the gold standard, countries used price and wage deflation as a means of adjusting to trade deficits.

Correction to this articleBACK in the days of the gold standard countries competed to show their commitment to "sound money".

The French government sold the foreign exchange for gold, draining gold from Britain and other gold standard countries.

(Under the gold standard, countries had fixed the value of their currencies in gold, and the amount of money in circulation had been limited by their gold holdings).

But since President Nixon eliminated the gold standard, countries have had the option of letting their currencies float in value, helping to eliminate persistent balance-of-payments deficits without outside support.

With her long, red flowing hair and short, red velvet dress, Case isn't your standard country gal.

Looked at one way, the show is an upending of the standard country-music model, in which the singer must sing because he is tortured by his memories.

Big Kenny Alphin and John Rich are a radical force in Nashville because they ignore the style restrictions and proprieties of standard country, aiming for their own good-time populism.

At an early age he began playing standard country repertoire including schottisches, waltzes, and reels on the fiddle and the mandolin.

Fashion-forward Italian pieces here and there mix companionably with the standard country house leather club chairs.