Sentence examples for tier of countries from inspiring English sources

"The UK is already in the top tier of countries ISIS is targeting".

Samoa looked one of the few representatives of the so-called 'next tier' of countries still able to provide a decent test for the leading nations.

Security chiefs have found that Britain is among the "top tier" of countries that Isis is targeting, David Cameron has told MPs as he warned the UK will "never be safe" until the Islamic terrorist group is defeated.

Where they could work is in a middle tier of countries, like rapidly ageing China, that have got the institutions to make the schemes function.For emerging economies with that sort of institutional capacity, the NDC design also overcomes the snags in an earlier reform strategy pioneered by Chile when it changed its pension system in the early 1980s.

Along with Germany, the United States sits in the bottom tier of countries when it comes to giving the next generation a leg up the skills ladder.

But Jim Lewis, a cybersecurity-focused researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, (CSIS) says he has little doubt that North Korea has developed a cyber espionage program that puts it around the "second tier" of countries in terms of international espionage competence.

Mr. Andrews said he saw three tiers of countries for Piano's future expansion.

"We are seeing a shift in the expansion of tree cover loss to a second tier of smaller countries that traditionally get much less attention from environmental groups".

The shape of global power is decidedly pyramidal — with the United States alone at the top, a second tier of major countries (China, Japan, India, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Brazil), and several tiers descending below...

It is the southern tier of euro countries that are the most pessimistic, with Greece at negative 60, Portugal at negative 51 and Spain at negative 37. Outside the euro zone, British consumers are also very fearful, at minus 50.

Some economists see it as one of the "Next Eleven" tier of developing countries with potential for serious foreign-investment-led growth.