Sentence examples for stripped countries from inspiring English sources

During the years of British imperialism we stripped countries of natural resources, now we are stripping them of their intellectual resources.

Mr. Toole says the virus has not only left a generation of children without parents but has also stripped countries of their productive, food-growing workforce.

She says individual nurses should be free to decide whether to come – but she wants both an ethical recruitment policy which doesn't strip countries of large numbers of nurses they have trained, and sufficient training of nurses here.

Now, he is a vocal opponent of the Lisbon Treaty, which aims to help Europe become more of an international player, but which he argues will strip countries of sovereignty.

The quest for size and this discount-shopping form of capitalism is also stripping countries of their sophisticated economic drivers.

This could hardly come at a worse time for the stripped eurozone countries.

"It does not mean that aid is going to be stripped from countries, but it certainly means that the US government is going to promote programmes and promote organisations that are trying to improve the lives of LGBT people".

The defeat was a humiliation, and it stripped the country of its illusions of omnipotence.

Moody's and Standard & Poor's stripped the country of its AAA status during the year.

Remzi Lani, director of Albania's Media Institute, bemoans the brain drain that has stripped his country in the past decade.

The past 30 years of war has stripped the country of its trees, including precious native pistachio woodlands.