Sentence examples for subset of nations from inspiring English sources

Hence any subset of nations could take the lead in establishing an independent atmospheric trust, for example the high ambition coalition that emerged out of COP21, or the so-called Vulnerable 20 (V20) (a group of 20 countries most at risk from the effects of climate change).

After the procedural nightmare of 2009's Copenhagen climate-change summit, its successor in Cancún, Mexico, played out surprisingly well, achieving a fair bit of what its overhyped and acrimonious predecessor had fluffed.Copenhagen produced a lot of ill will and an "accord" put together by only a small subset of nations.

This paper examines the characteristics of defense-related mission R&D programs in the industrial economies, with particular attention to the subset of nations for which reliable longitudinal data on defense R&D spending are available.

This column presents research based on such episodes from 181 nations during 1980-2007 and for a subset of 66 nations for the 1960-2007 period.

Today's release may only include a subset of the nations museums, but Google says more are on the way.

California's economic woes are mainly a subset of the nation's.

The military became the business of a small, self-selecting subset of the nation, whose charge it is to fight so that the rest of us should never know war.

The new standards for the first time set numerical limits on emissions of mercury, acid gas and small-particle pollution for a small subset of the nation's 1.5 million industrial boilers.

Mr. Romney has made this claim before and, when asked to defend it, his campaign has said that he is referring to a subset of the nation's total debt -- the portion of the debt that is owed to private investors.

This was corroborated by the distribution of culturally modified habitat types which take up approximately 50% of the areal cover in a subset of the nation's Natura 2000 network (241 Special Areas for Conservation).

For example, profits from the subset of the nation's coal-fired power plants that sell electricity on the open market plummeted from $20 billion in 2008 to $4 billion in 2011, Schlissel said.