Sentence examples for world membership from inspiring English sources

Only a year ago, the talk of TV sports -- if not the world membership of Mensa -- was the coming of the comedian Dennis Miller to ABC's "Monday Night Football" booth.

This home-grown faith, founded by an itinerant treasure digger from upstate New York in 1830, has grown to a world membership of more than 10 million, including five current United States senators.

In fact, even entering the contest had been daring of Breakspeare though Jamaican Miss World entrants had traditionally supplied wives for many local politicians, including Edward Seaga, Michael Manley's socialist Jamaica had dropped its Miss World membership, along with Cuba.

Around the world, union membership in every mature market has declined, despite very different legal systems.

Still, the euro remains among the strongest currencies in the world, and membership opens the door to a club with global influence.

That has led many in the church to say that the new pope should represent a part of the world where membership is growing quickly, while others say that spiritual vision should be paramount.

For a rogue nation that prides itself on threatening the world community, membership in the Axis of Evil is considered essential, which makes North Korea's expulsion from the group a particularly damaging setback.

Its population is young and well educated, the windows of its economy have been opened to the world by membership in the European Union and a fragile peace has embraced Ulster.

The government statistics agency reports that a quarter of the workforce is now employed by foreign-owned companies (though this figure is exaggerated by including companies domiciled in tax havens).Meanwhile, as elsewhere in the developed world, union membership has fallen steadily, from a high of 84% in the early 1990s to 68% in 2013.

(It's cheaper to sign up for a year's subscription, which is $155, or $12.95 a month; a "World Deluxe" membership is $299 a year).

"So $20 billion by 2020 – in a world with membership fees, we were taking the commission paid to us from retail partners on the marketplace and passing a piece of them back to our members in the form of initial discounts," she continues.