Sentence examples for terms country from inspiring English sources

In practical terms, country ownership means that donors use a recipient's national systems for handling aid money, particularly its financial management and procurement methods.

If you're in an underdeveloped (in scientific terms) country or at an institution with limited infrastructure, it's that much harder.

The reality is that in economic terms, countries have already abandoned their old currencies.

In percentage terms, countries such as Portugal (21%) and Ireland (16%) have much higher proportions of their population living abroad.

So is accepting the bitter truth that, in strategic terms, countries in relative decline (which includes all Europe) must choose between a limited set of options, none of which is likely to be are wholly attractive.

To me, therefore, the term "country supper" is specific.

Asked to respond to the term "country" in a word-association test, Bond promptly replies "England".

The term "country and western music" (later shortened to "country music") was adopted by the recording industry in 1949 to replace the derogatory label "hillbilly music".

But the term country bacon is largely used as a marketing tool and can mean simply that the bacon is thickly sliced.

In time, the very term "country dweller," paganus, set the rural population still further apart from the empire's Christianized urban population.

We were following the steps of a long-term Country Diary reader, Mark Hubbard (self-styled "exile from Somerset"), who now lives in Cambridgeshire, and who had written to describe a walk he had taken there long ago.