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It is the
smallest
North African country, covering 163,000 square kilometers – more or less twice the size of Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg – and containing a population of 10.5 million.
But another record, this one far less stable, belongs to the Arctic ice itself: by March of this year, it had shrunk to the
smallest
size ever recorded.
Those in business try to shrink their declared income to the
smallest
amount possible, or not declare any income at all.
Education is a field where short-term results are difficult to achieve and the sheer size of even the
smallest
individual country's education system makes effective external support daunting.
The British parliament voted not to intervene in Syria;Western countries are among the
smallest
contributors to United Nations peacekeeping operations; and countries that preach diplomacy and prevention, like Germany, have yet to turn their rhetoric into action.
In 1999, Finland boasted the
smallest
government debt, equal to 45.5% of GDP.
Stopping the Child KillersSEATTLE – In far too many places around the world, the biggest child killers are caused by the
smallest
of organisms – the viruses, bacteria, and single cell parasites that cause diarrhea and pneumonia.
Government debt was in fact the
smallest
component; banks, businesses, and households each had twice as much.
Quantum Mechanics, on the other hand, is equally successful at describing the universe at the
smallest
scales: quarks, electrons, atoms, and molecules.
Last September, Arctic sea ice covered the
smallest
area ever recorded.
Having received its
smallest
share of the popular vote since World War II, the SPD is severely weakened, and may be unable to pursue anything but the least controversial items on its domestic agenda.
Having dominated East and Southeast Asia for all but the last two centuries of the past two millennia, China is chafing at the current US-led regional order of sovereign states, in which even the
smallest
enjoys the same rights, privileges, and protection as the largest.
But the danger is that the stakes are being raised so high that the
smallest
misstep could escalate into a conflict of unforeseeable dimensions.
Both EU and NATO membership make war among European member states unthinkable, and an attack on even the
smallest
NATO member would bring a response from all NATO members.
Poland also chooses to treat possession of even the
smallest
quantities of drugs as criminal, as evidenced by the fact that 60% of people sentenced for drug possession in Poland are marijuana smokers.
For 13 years I was privileged to lead an IMF whose strengths include fostering economic cooperation and providing advice and assistance to 182 countries as varied as the United States and the
smallest
Pacific island nation.
Entrepreneurs, executives, and stockholders face similar uncertainty as disruptive technologies change the rules of the game by reducing entry barriers and lowering the minimum efficient scale (the
smallest
amount a company must produce while still taking full advantage of economies of scale).
A DVD is about the smallest, cheapest item for which the logistical costs do not outweigh the value.
The US introduced the
smallest
dose of austerity, and it has enjoyed the best economic performance.
The three Baltic countries - Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania - will be among the
smallest
members when they join the Union on May 1, 2004, their total of 6 million people representing just 1.5% of the then EU's population.
Applying the overall ratio of mass lost to area covered, this means that the
smallest
(and most numerous) Himalayan glaciers lost up to 57% of their mass between 1960 and 2004.
The EU provides this set of common rules, buttressed by common institutions that give every country, even the smallest, a say.
Loss of mutual trust between the parties, and their total incapacity to take even the
smallest
step towards each other, let alone to observe their commitments without prodding by third parties, made (and still makes) an international framework for peace the only way out of the dangerous impasse.
The second biggest economy in the world is Japan's, but the fraction of its trade denominated in yen remains low, even when compared to the
smallest
European countries.
Of the four members, Russia has the
smallest
and most literate population and a much higher per capita income, but, more importantly, many observers believe that Russia is declining while the other three are rising in power resources.
Although the Chinese have offered rhetorical support for international forces’ anti-terror efforts in Afghanistan, they have refused even the
smallest
military role.
For another, every one of Samuel Huntington’s famously clashing civilizations finds a representative among its members, giving a common roof to the widest possible array of worldviews in their
smallest
imaginable combination (just 18 countries).
The
smallest
countries show no signs of fear of being swamped by Nigeria, by far the most populous country in the group (accounting for 155 million of the six countries’ 200 million people), especially as the new West African Central Bank is to be located in Accra, the capital of Ghana (24 million).
Europe’s nation-states are no longer geopolitically viable in a world where the largest, Germany, has fewer people than one of China’s
smallest
provinces.
Digital technologies are boosting global flows and competition, enabling even the
smallest
companies – and even individual entrepreneurs – to be “micro-multinationals.”
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