Sentence examples for weakened countries from inspiring English sources

The gap between the yield on longer-term debt of Greece, Portugal and other weakened countries and that of comparable German debt also widened.

Mr. Hollande, recently elected, and Mr. Monti have been pressing for a method to collectivize debt and reduce borrowing costs for weakened countries.

He listed the potentially harmful side effects from sharp movements in currencies, commodities and interest rates that could push already weakened countries to the brink of collapse.

As wars have further weakened countries in sub-Saharan Africa already devastated by economic problems and AIDS, Mr. Annan and other world leaders have tried to involve Africans more actively in peacemaking.

The pressure on Ireland grew as officials feared that market jitters could spread rapidly if nothing was done, putting the squeeze on other fiscally weakened countries, like Portugal and Spain, the fourth-largest economy in the euro zone.

The fund's economists reckon that this may be because central banks view spending cuts as a stronger signal of a commitment to fiscal prudence and so are more willing to provide some monetary stimulus to soften the blow.Indeed, declines in interest rates, which also weakened countries' exchange rates, help explain why GDP did not decline even more sharply.

"We see ourselves increasingly as this weakened country dependent on faraway events.

Who burdened an already weakened country with 3m refugees, making it yet more unstable?

Never mind that it is the flag of a divided and weakened country which may or may not ever again be a united nation in the sense that it once was.

The United States emerges from a little over three decades of change, challenge, and transformation as a weakened country morally if not materially, and unworthy to assume the mantle of global leadership in the twentieth century.

The competition is weakened in countries without solidly based civilian government.