Example collocations logo

Clubs in sentence

253 examples of Clubs in a sentence

The promotion of Yellen and Flug is a good start; now the doors of these fusty male-dominated clubs must be flung wide open.
But, instead of buying villas, yachts, or soccer clubs abroad, he invested his fortune in Russia.
In such dire circumstances, it is easy to lure girls with false prospects of attractive jobs abroad, often in bars, restaurants, and clubs.
In Accra, a trendy street club named Strawberries is well known as a hangout for gays, and there are a few prominent, if still discreet, clubs where homosexual men and women gather.
Instead, regulators stand idly by while bank boards remain self-perpetuating clubs, with membership regarded as little more than so much social plumage.
Museums, gardening, clubs of all sorts are blossoming in today’s France.
Local working-class boys played for local clubs that inspired fierce loyalty among fans.
Football chauvinism always contained an edge of violence, for it often included an ethnic, religious, or class component: Protestants versus Catholics (in Scotland);“Jewish” clubs (in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, and Budapest), taunted by fans who opposed the “Yids”; posh clubs (like Galatasaray in Istanbul) and resolutely proletarian sides (West Ham in London); clubs that took pride in a strong regional identity (Barcelona); and clubs that were close to the centers of power (Real Madrid).
Some clubs were financed by industrial corporations in order to promote loyalty among their workers: Philips sponsored the Dutch club PSV Eindhoven, for example, while Fiat played the same role for Italy’s Juventus.
But, regardless of the sponsorship or the location, fans felt close to most of the clubs, as well as to their national teams.
Football clubs have become the status symbols of newly rich tycoons from Russia or the Middle East, and international competitions, especially the World Cup, have become occasions to bolster the prestige, and sometimes even the legitimacy, of national governments.
In places like India, Tanzania, and Zambia, girls’ empowerment clubs, in which members share their challenges and learn how to overcome them, have proved their effectiveness.
Such clubs give girls the confidence and skills they need to take control of the major decisions in their lives – including whether, when, and whom they will marry.
More promising examples, albeit less well-known, may be found in Internet-driven lending and borrowing clubs or, more generally, the peer-to-peer initiatives in consumer financial services.
We propose a new structure composed of a common base and a few optional clubs devoted to major policy areas.
Clubs would be built around key policy areas.
In particular, there should be only one European Commission (though there would be club secretariats), one Parliament (though its members could meet in club formations), and one Court of Justice for the bare-bones Union and the clubs.
Furthermore, participation in and withdrawal from the clubs should require passing high enough hurdles to ensure stable membership.
Consider football clubs, the modern world’s most insular, even tribal institutions.
Thirty years ago, who would have imagined that two of London’s most popular clubs – Arsenal and Chelsea – would have a French and a Portuguese coach, respectively, and players from Spain, France, Portugal, Brazil, Russia, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Mexico, Ghana, South Korea, Holland, Belgium, Nigeria, and the Ivory Coast?
Obviously, holding a G-8 summit just before a G-20 summit, as happened in Canada this June, simply serves to prolong maintenance of separate clubs, which is unsustainable.
What they must do before it is too late is to say to all concerned that these are not closed clubs, then formulate a clear program of enlargement that contains a timetable, and explains the logic of that timetable.
They also have the ability to organize successfully against the market, particularly in small countries, where incumbents form a well-defined group whose members often attended the same elite schools, frequent the same clubs, and intermarry.
And other parts of the economy that provide services to the financial sector – Porsche dealers and strip clubs, for example – will be similarly encouraged.
We console each other when Chelsea loses, and worry together when our team plays big clubs, like recently when they played Liverpool, the only major contender that stood between Chelsea and the English title.
Girls have mobilized in Bangladesh, where the movement to establish child-marriage-free zones is growing; in India, where the Global March Against Child Labor started; and in Africa, where child protection clubs are being formed in almost every country.
And Bangladesh’s child-marriage-free zone in the Nilphamari region, Indonesia’s child-empowerment groups in the districts of Dompu and Grobogan, Uganda’s child-rights clubs, and India’s Bachpan Bachao Andolan, which combats child slavery, may not be household names.
Only in 1996, was the scale of Russia’s inherited Soviet debt burden acknowledged in the form of 25-year rescheduling agreements concluded with the Paris and London clubs of government and commercial creditors.
The revenue will be used to fund sports programs in schools and expand breakfast clubs.
Ever since European clubs loosened restrictions on the number of foreign players, the game has become truly global.
Back