Sentence examples for two major world from inspiring English sources

The writer and historian Jackie Huggins, a Bidjara and Birri-Gubba Juru woman, became the first Indigenous Australian to deliver the commemorative address, recounting the service of her grandfather and father in the past century's two major world wars.

This segment follows Hoagland and his team — the director David Frankham, the cinematographer Jared Moossy, and the field producer Josiah Hooper — to Rio de Janeiro to cover the escalating conflict between the drug-related gangs and the police force, in advance of two major world events — the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics — that loom over Brazil.

Rio has now played host to two major World Cup moments, both of which shook Brazil to its core: Uruguay's highly unexpected 2-1 defeat of the hosts in the decisive match of the 1950 tournament (labelled by many as the greatest tragedy in Brazilian football) and the 1983 theft of the original trophy.

Manila must therefore walk a tightrope between these two major world powers.

"The idea that two major world class athletics events took place in London... who would have bet against that going off flawlessly, as it seems to have done?" Mr Letterman asked.

The loess accumulations in two major world regions, central and eastern Asia and the Great Plains region of North America, differ in some important respects from loess elsewhere in that they lie peripheral to deserts and are remote from the former sites of major Quaternary ice sheets.

In case the three major world religions weren't enough for you.

The dollar also continued to gain strength, rising 1.7percentt against a basket of six major world currencies.

The dollar, which has been appreciating in recent weeks, staged another impressive rally, rising 0.83percentt against a basket of six major world currencies.

The American currency fell nearly 1percentt against a basket of six major world currencies yesterday, and is down 8.4percentt in the last 12 months.

Ten-foot-high figures weighing one and a half tons each portray equestrians, thought to symbolize four major world rivers, and children riding on dolphins.