How To Use Country In A Sentence

Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.
Our ambition is to build a prosperous, inclusive and outward-looking country. Times, Sunday Times
The interiors are beautifully kept and the countryside is lush and fruitful. Times, Sunday Times

There are a few formalities to be gone through before you enter a foreign country.
They conquered the southern part of the country in a few months.
It was her dream to have a little cottage in the country.
There's a lot of ballyhoo involved in getting a taxi in this country.
Country pursuits on offer include sheep-racing, woodcarving with chainsaws, small-bore rifle-shooting, wool-spinning, bee demonstrations, candle-making and ferret-racing.
BigshoeBazaar is an online cash and carry wholesaler for hundreds of small shoe stores across the country and is using a single 25,000 square feet warehouse, which will be enhanced to 100,000 square feet in a few months, to service shoe stores as far away as Dimapur in Nagaland and Katihar in Bihar. 'Hyper Growth' Returns To India's E-Commerce Sector
The results were disastrous, plunging the country into deep depression, with high unemployment, sharply falling living standards and serious political unrest.
The two-hour show was televised on the national network so the whole country could watch.
While the alpine end of the sport needs only cold weather to produce skiable terrain, cross-country must have snow.
Just because the American people are disgusted with higher taxes, bigger government, left wing liberal give away policies and pacifist foreign policy attitudes, this idiot thinks the Tea Party activist is in someway trying to bring the country down. Clinton warns against violent anti-government attitude
The study predicted that, by 2022, the country would still require $7.2 billion in foreign aid a year—and that assumes an upsurge of so-far inexistent mining-industry revenue and no dramatic deterioration of security. Afghanistan Seeks Enduring Support
Over Fate of Georgia, Provinces With Russian forces appearing to hunker down in Georgia, U.S. and European officials now face a pricklier challenge: Moscow's insistence that it has the right to help break up the country. U.S.-Russia Relations Turn Cold
Born in an American Stalinist medical facility**** to foreign parents, he spent his early years nomadically, drifting from country to country***** as his feckless father moved the family in search of lasting employment******. Support Al Kemal for Mayor of London: the People’s Choice! « raincoaster
The attitude toward immigrants and racial minorities in this country is disgusting.
A country which once conquered the commercial world now fails to make the most of the global market place.
Instead they have further undermined the economy by driving capital and foreign investors out of the country. Times, Sunday Times
Not so with this trivial, lawless country club set of the 1920's, drunk part of the time and reckless all of it, codeless, dutiless, restless. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
There have been monumental social and demographic changes in the country.
We have increased by tens of thousands the number of surgical procedures being carried out in this country.
This is the only country in Europe to deny cancer screening to its citizens.
We are trialling it for commercial growing for the first time in this country.
1980 - The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President.
As such, hemp is legal in virtually every country on Earth except the United States. Harvey Wasserman: Legal Pot or Bust!
The "fruitily perfumed pineapple weed" that came to Britain from Oregon in the late 19th century and then began to spread throughout the countryside, Mr. Mabey says, "exactly tracked the adoption of the treaded motor tyre, to which its ribbed seeds clung" as if the treads were the soles of climbing boots. Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
The establishment of administrative accountability system in our country soon, And accountability is still in the consubstantial Accountability stage.
a demarche is the strongest sanction a country can exercise against another. ANC Daily News Briefing
Despite having all the appropriate authorisations in their possession, they were unable to produce the program for which they had travelled to the country.
Ignoring it shows total disrespect for their country. The Sun
The country was administered by the British until very recently.
Their green rings, circular or ovoidal in form, abounded in all parts of the country, and it was in these circles they were said to dance through the livelong night. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
He had taken a hard line about any country that harbored terrorists, and by his definition Saddam was a terrorist. Plan of Attack
We also believe that practically any country that degrades women or any country that cuts them off from the vital life of the country is making a very big mistake.
I was haunted by the beauty of the landscape all about, of the natural ferneries then disappearing, and of the domed forest-trees on the slopes, and was fortunate in meeting a gentleman intent on preserving in art the beauties of his country. Sailing Alone Around the World
The efforts of the Emperor Franz Joseph and the ruling elite to divert attention from their country's increasingly threadbare imperial pretensions furnished Musil with comic material galore.
To which I responded matter-of-factly, ‘This is a bilingual country.’
The openings came amid fresh political uncertainty in the country. Times, Sunday Times
The Bantustans represented an imposed tribalism, with indigenous Africans forcibly displaced onto reservations carved out of the country's poorest land.
CAMBODIA - Cambodia is alarmed at the illegal import of pigs from the neighboring country of Viet Nam. ThePigSite - Global Pig Industry News Feeds
Greg Wood is one of only 150 men and women in this country to devote themselves to the welfare of our horses' gnashers.
He has pledged to bring his country to peace by the end of the year. Times, Sunday Times
It is a long-term task to rebuild the infrastructure of a war-torn country such as Angola.
You've also threatened, or you've also mentioned that my relationship threatens my country and again I find that such a huge leap of illogic.
It seemed the whole of the country was there in one form or another.
The historic buildings which will receive grants in the present allocation are from right across the country.
Many birds are nesting earlier than they used to, while others are overwintering in this country instead of migrating to warmer parts.
The country is experiencing a severe economic depression.
My fellow countrymen were killing and harming each other in ways that I previously could not have fathomed. Soiya Gecaga: Being the Change That I Wish To See In the World
Now the agitation in the country and the violent disorder it threatened could be directed against the Government.
As the last country in the world to abolish slavery, only in 1888, temporary slavery due to indebtedness and forced labour has continued and been combated regularly by Government in isolated regions, where the arms of the justice system face a demographic challenge. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fighting contemporary slavery
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam came into existence in July 1976 as a communist country modelling its political system after those of the Soviet Union and China.
Wrapped in slick vocal layering and multi-tracked veneer, the disc is more upbeat than previous records and features an old-country twang.
At least half of the country's population voted, thereby validating the result.
However, the same writer made a poem on the tricks of countryfolk, which is by no means devoid of merit. The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
It is better to look at country groups than exact positions in the tables. Times, Sunday Times
Forget about the digital divide - it's the domestic divide that really cleaves this country in two.
Most people have no doubt that they are a money spinner and in some part of the country they are being pulled down.
However, he continued to press the need for military intervention to support, he said, worker risings in the country.
The trail will accommodate five core activities: walking, cycling, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling (where possible or desired).
He was a powerful monarch, -- so powerful that the Greeks, who had built cities all along the coast of Asia Minor, in the country called Ionia, never spoke of him except as "The Great King. The Story of the Greeks
The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness.
More snow, sleet and rain is forecast for much of the country this week. The Sun
Konduz lies at the heart of the north-south axis of the country connecting the capital Kabul to the former republic of Tajikistan - a significant route for trade.
We're moving forward faster than any country in the world, but for me it's not going fast enough
The president's untimely death has thrown the country into chaos.
We are working what you described as the targeting process to think our way through all of the possibilities, as well as to determine what the restricted lists might be associated to this so that we stay within the guidelines that our country operates within. CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2003
The country has been in a state of anarchy since the inconclusive election.
At 76, the legendary country outlaw just gets better and better. The Sun
Even though these involved rich Mexicans, it can happen at any time to extranjeros flaunting their wealth in a povert stricken town in a 3rd world country. San Miguel crime spree?
Please let's change and be people with brave hearts and forget all about violence against any particular sex in this independent country.
Measles, mumps and rubella are unpleasant diseases and an epidemic in this country would be disastrous.
Add in endless plugs in magazines and news bulletins and the less addicted may want to flee the country. Times, Sunday Times
Myanmar officials have repeatedly asked for more help from the IMF to help the government simplify the country's unwieldy foreign-exchange regime, which involves multiple exchange rates—including an official rate of about six Myanmar kyat per dollar, compared with a street rate of about 800 per dollar. Clinton Encourages Myanmar
Nature notes Autumn colours are now becoming more noticeable, though large swathes of the countryside are still quite green. Times, Sunday Times
Thoroughly frustrated with the blindness of his countrymen, he resolved to establish a community in America.
I live in a part of the country which is almost completely dominated by the bibliolatrous mindset.
Rangers should be relieved but the country as a whole should be mortified to be portrayed in this way.
With poor mineral resources, its prospects as an independent, viable country were secured by the invention of refrigeration.
Our country has not yet passed the test of a severely-dichotomized nation. Dr. Leo Rangell: Cool
ALLAHABAD - As the country marked the first anniversary of 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks, hundreds of people in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district turned up at the bank of the Ganga Thursday to witness the "hanging" of terrorist Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
He treated the vast mineral wealth of his country as something for him to sell off to the highest international bidders.
She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities. Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
He knew more about our tools and equipment than anyone in the country. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
Some days earlier, they'd left the hill country behind for the flanks of the mountains. A Time of War
As soon as news of the tragedy was announced, shock waves spread rapidly to all parts of the country.
Where's your country hawbuck now?" cried Craven, triumphantly. Rodney stone
The capital of France boasts every regional specialty, cheese and wine the country has to offer.
In peddling the cheesesteak as a dining option, he noted that restaurants in other parts of the country don't know how to make a proper cheesesteak.
A childhood memory returned to me of a summer in the country. THE EXECUTION
To allow the few who dishonour our country to become a reflection of our entire nation is to distort history.
We walked into the bedroom of Ting Sun, Yao country the English is busy in searching the home position of the Deng of that square, but I seize an opportunity the decoration of lo this bedroom.
The country's economy is export oriented.
However, there is a potential for increased tourism because of the natural beauty and varied topography and because the country is unspoiled and inexpensive.
(Under the Indian constitution nontribal people are prohibited from directly acquiring land in certain parts of the country, so the government must obtain it on their behalf and sell it to the companies.) India's Dirty War
There are still flowers to be seen on the grass verges of country roads. Times, Sunday Times
Economic theory shows that * everybody* could be better off if the losers are compensated from the country's gains. Trade Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
For them, the house's main value lay in its quiet country location.
Either Mrs David has had an enormous impact on her countrymen or a major paradigm shift has occurred.
His main task will be to ensure that the debt-laden country passes an unpopular bailout plan before elections in February. Times, Sunday Times
Country folk in both the United States and Mexico often live under unfortunate circumstances but that does not excuse your belittling them because you consider yourself to be "highborn". Small town living
I suggest that thinking begins with frank analysis of our own very personal primal experiences of the country.
The debacle threatens to stymie the country's dynamic agricultural sector.
Possibly in a bid to allay fears that nationalism and protectionism were driving the agenda--though it's hard to wonder how they couldn't in a country whose motto translates as "we wish to remain what we are"--a Luxembourg minister said on Tuesday that the takeover law, which it plans to enact in May, was in no way aimed at creating impediments to Mittal's play for Arcelor. Luxembourg Minister: We're Not Trying To Stop Mittal
Die young, and I shall accept your death- but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all. Napoleon Bonaparte
Traditionally the province has functioned as the country's breadbasket.
Havel has become his country's beacon of democracy and hope.
During the whole of the thirteenth century, and for some time afterwards, the Hojo continued to govern the country; and it is noteworthy that these regents never assumed the title of shogun, but professed to be merely shogunal deputies. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
There are now believed to be only 12 places in the country where the fritillary thrives, and Cricklade North Meadow has the highest proportion of the blooms.
Continuing violence will retard negotiations over the country's future.
Censorial ministry website issues announcement, announce the country prevents corrupt bureau website to debut formally.
The divided and conquered nature of the country has made it easy for oil to be tapped without raising the ire of countries worldwide.
219 people were killed in the country's worst-ever plane crash.
In destinations such as Sharm el-Sheikh, which attract willing but poor hands from across the country looking for work, the effect is magnified. Egypt economy awaits its lost tourists
illegal aliens entering the country.
The Flemish, those residing in Flanders, the northern half of the country, speak Dutch.
Then the king of England entered into the country of Beauvoisis, brenning and exiling the plain country, and lodged at a fair abbey and Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
He was allowed to remain temporarily in the Alpine country after filing an appeal against the decision.
Country life has simply become less appealing. Times, Sunday Times
Old dandies with creaking joints tottered along Piccadilly to their certain doom; young clerks in the city, explaining that they wished to attend their aunt's funeral, crowded the omnibuses for Kensington and were seen no more; while my mother tells me that excursion trains from the country were arriving at the principal stations throughout the day, bearing huge loads of provincial inamorati. The War of the Wenuses
He reaffirmed his commitment to the country's economic reform programme.
When Coleman's picture was splashed across every newspaper in the country the next day, the calls began to flood in.
= -- The parasites found in food in this country are echinococcus, guineaworm, hookworm, trichina, and tapeworm. The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)
It analyses the bone ash disposal ways by entironment theory and takes forward the way that is environmental and fits to our country.
The place had been a quiet country house in his books. Domestic bliss and all the rest.
So the boys decided it was high time someone did a humorous send-up of these books, in the form of a warm, satirical and very funny guide to a country that simply doesn't exist.
In the past it has refused to interfere in the country 's internal affairs but may be softening its position. Times, Sunday Times
As the war debt lightened, the economy of the country developed quickly.
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A simple drive through the countryside, past sheep ranch after sheep ranch, is balm for a weary soul.
Anyone who has once taken up the WORD can never again evade it; a writer is not the detached judge of his compatriots and contemporaries, he is an accomplice to all the evil committed in his native land or by his countrymen. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture
We may hear about it in a very short time; the preparations are made meanwhile with more vigour than before; & we must hope that the honour of the country will be in short regained, but when Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Mr Mugabe can not fail to understand the consequence of redistribution of the country's most productive land to subsistence farmers.
a country in the throes of economic collapse
Name one country in history where bolstering people in their prejudices has turned out for the best. Times, Sunday Times
Fitch cautioned that the country's sovereign ratings remained constrained by relatively low levels of external liquidity as well as what it described as formidable social and structural challenges. ANC Daily News Briefing
Julia smiled with delight. she was enjoying her walk down the quiet country lane towards the riverbank.
It has become axiomatic in this country that children from deprived areas are destined to fail educationally.
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They grew up within walking distance of the countryside and spent much of their time either rambling or in the local bookshop. Times, Sunday Times
Oil was being smuggled illegally out of the country. Times, Sunday Times
I marinated the meat in red wine and then slowly grilled and ate it, accompanied by a light green salad and a half bottle of Country Beaujolais.
North Korea is said to be the world's most heavily militarized country, with over 1 million men in the armed forces.
So those of you thinking about going hiking maybe this weekend into the Colorado Rockies, down to the San Juan, across the Wasatch and Siuwincas (ph) and up into parts of Idaho and Montana, we have what we call a considerable threat of avalanche danger in the back country areas. CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2007
The two occupying powers cared little for the country's sovereignty and well-being.
No one in this world is going to invest time here unless they see the country demilitarise and demobilise.
But what if a sovereign government decides to remove another country from the internet? Computing
In country districts the agricultural classes have substituted cider for beer. Times, Sunday Times
Similarly Wang missed the gang era of the late 1970s and early 1980s when those children whose parents had been sent deep into the countryside for re-education formed their own cadres of street toughs.
The Yellow Fever Initiative is financially supported by the GAVI Alliance, ECHO, Ministries of Health, and country-level partners.
The attack came amid a major upsurge in violence across the country that has left a thousand dead.
In the seventeenth century, the country was ruled by a monarch with a severe speech impediment and a fragile ego.
We've always had a wonderful tradition in our country of mateship.
The country was on the verge of becoming prosperous and successful.
Now, they hold him responsible for planning to destabilise the country.
An unexpected call for a no-confidence vote against Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung over his handling of a debt crisis at one of Vietnam's biggest state-owned firms shows that the political fallout from the country's worst-ever financial scandal might just be starting, analysts say. Vietnamese Premier Faces Fallout on Vinashin
Any area of the country wher they will look you in the eye and tell you that dinaosuars roamed the earth in 6 BC with Noah and Jesus and espouses creationsim and intelligent design (what an oxymoron) will give you Senators like Inhofe, DeMint, McConnell and the other gop troglodytes, Voinovich: The GOP's 'being taken over by Southerners'
The geographical proximity of European countries has permitted fewer channels for terrestrial broadcast services in a single country than elsewhere. Television - policy and culture
China already turned into by commissariat recipient country commissariat helps a nation.
The republicans main agenda is to try and make the president fail, consequently our country and us. Obama says opponents reducing health care reform to 'politics'
Well, it would be in a whole new jurisprudence so far as the prosecution of Commonwealth offences were concerned in this country.
The country is preparing for an almost complete withdrawal of foreign troops and diminishing international aid that forms the bulk of its economy. Times, Sunday Times
The reports come amid fighting at the country's principal military airbase at Bagram, 40 miles from the capital.
‘Fire kills’ is the banal but unarguable opening line of the introduction to John Prescott's new vision for the country's fire and rescue service.
We are just like any other country in the region, with our pluses and our minuses.
She was expelled from the party for opposing neo-liberalism and is one of the founders of a new socialist party in her country.
I've fought over every hinch o 'this perishin' country, an 'tyke it from me, guv'nor, there ain't Jimgrim and Allah's Peace
But a country that is even closer to Indonesia is Australia and there are still pygmies in Australia too.
The country is awash with fine pubs providing social surroundings and ample refreshment for the alcohol-free. Times, Sunday Times
Siberia a country in which nothing will grow; in some parts there is wheat, and where _wheat_ will not grow _barley_ will, and where _barley_ will not grow _turnips_ will. Far Off
The New Zealander-Australian country music star battled an addiction to cocaine in the late '90s, but cleaned up before releasing his self-titled American debut in 2000.
Our woodcut is taken from the improved model produced by Mr. Stokey; no doubt Mr. Rarey took the idea of his gag-bit from the wooden gag, which has been in use among country farriers from time immemorial, to keep a horse's mouth while they are performing the cruel and useless operation of firing for lampas. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid
Mrs. Johnson to go into the country with us, and she, after long reluctation on Hippy's account, consented, agreeing to send him away to friends during her absence. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)
WHO is working with the Ministry of Health in Yemen to ensure that AFP surveillance throughout the country is sensitized so that no transmission of wild poliovirus is missed.
Distribution of food throughout the country is being hampered by inefficiency and corruption.
We traveled daily by the new 727 jet aircraft criss-crossing a country the size of the U.S.
It's part of a broader Hindu nationalist movement that's gaining strength throughout the country.
There's no future in trying to sell furs in a hot country.
Of this cruel knight and felonous you have avenged this country. The High History of the Holy Graal
In 1884, the first newspaper in Ladino - the language of Sephardic Jews - was founded, although in time all Jewish newspapers in the country published in Bulgarian.
The political anarchy (disorder) of the 1970s and 1980s has led to lawlessness in parts of the country.
These situations are not hypothetical; they are based on real stories from faculty members across the country.
Rather, he is to function as an imperial proconsul, wielding unfettered power over a militarily occupied country.
Nevertheless, the only East European country to sign up has been Romania (and the Romanian government is now back-pedalling, claiming that it was intimidated by Washington).
We're trying to drag the country out of its economic morass.
As she drove along the narrow, winding country lanes she and an oncoming coach, carrying teenagers to school in Harrogate, slowed so both vehicles could safely pass.
In our country of state - owned take apart ofof corporation merger.
Similarly, it has been decreed that concierges watch television interminably while their rather large cats doze, and that the entrance to the building must smell of pot-au-feu, cabbage soup, or a country-style cassoulet. Excerpt: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The next morning, I turned away from the dazzling coast and took the road inland to bandit country. Times, Sunday Times
Talks are under way to let the Scottish Prison Service access and contribute information to a powerful intelligence database on the movements and activities of the country's criminals.
Some of the country is like England, undulating, rolling, well-cultivated fields, enclosed with pailings which overlap each other and would be awkwardish obstacles in a hunting country; but one misses, like abroad, the cattle -- we saw one or two stray cows, but little else. A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba
Instead, they depicted the lonely troops in real time, trudging to the next trench in the torn up countryside of an unfamiliar country. Smithsonian Mag
For the past few decades the country has depended for its power on a national grid network, most of which is at least 40 years old. Times, Sunday Times
The Heskeths were on intimate terms with Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, whose country seat was Knowsley Hall (six miles east of Liverpool).
Huge towers grew into the sky, as the countryside gradually encroached on the city outskirts.
In the countryside, on the contrary, more hands were needed to work the fields in grain-growing regions, and males contracted marriages at younger ages to increase the rural labour supply.
Fewer and fewer people living in this country feel any cultural connection with jolly swagmen, billabongs and coolibah trees.

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