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228 examples of Theirs in a sentence

The communists are keeping the globalization faith; but the capitalists seem to have lost theirs.
Our generation owes it to theirs to have a growth strategy for ourselves.
Germany and the US began theirs in 1933.
He behaved, he explained later, as the early Bolsheviks would: when you disagree with an opponent, you must make your argument loud and clear – and drown theirs with noise.
The sad thing about the power that Poland's peasants now exert is that theirs is a wholly negative one.
When the US cut off trade with Iran, even close allies were only too ready to intensify theirs; when Germany recalled its ambassador from Tehran because Iran’s leaders had been implicated in a murder plot, some European partners grasped this opportunity to promote their business ties with Iran at Germany’s expense.
Deficit countries with a fixed exchange rate (as is the case in the eurozone) are forced to cut their spending, while surplus countries are under no equivalent pressure to increase theirs.
Ecuador and Venezuela have already terminated theirs.
Having a national money is expensive - that is why Italy and France surrendered theirs.
Our homes and our cities are just a few kilometers from each other, our fields brush up against theirs.
If there is one thing to keep in mind, it is that people change theirs.
As countries like Greece have cut their expenditures, others, like Germany, have not expanded theirs.
Ours is a guilt culture; theirs a shame culture.
Developing countries, too, have made serious commitments to their own people, and the primary responsibility for fulfilling those commitments is theirs.
Feeling uncomfortable with this rationale, other opponents deny the religious nature of the dispute and make clear that theirs is not a quarrel with Islam.
This has confronted the Europeans with a quandary: if they do not agree to give up some seats on the IMF board, some emerging countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, and perhaps even India, would lose theirs.
Theirs is a fate perennially suffered by intellectuals.
South Korea and Japan saw their interests compromised in Singapore, and NATO allies fear theirs were set aside in Helsinki.
In the medium term, over-spenders should trim their outlays and habitual exporters should increase theirs.
With their minimum wage, Venezuelans could buy less than a fifth of the food that traditionally poorer Colombians could buy with theirs.
It is difficult for an international superpower like the US or a regional one like Israel to realize that a group or a people dare to have priorities different from theirs.
For years, ordinary Saudis watched with envy parliamentary debates on Arab satellite channels, in countries richer than theirs, such as Kuwait, as well as in poorer ones, such as Yemen and Jordan.
For all the awe-inspiring promises of technological advance, theirs is an apt concern.
But they grew up in the ghettos that ring France’s major cities, surrounded by families like theirs, literally on the margins of society.
Others, like French Finance Minister Francois Baroin, have gone even further, claiming that Europe “has done its part,” and that it is now up to other countries to do theirs.
My grandmother lost all of her teeth during her life, and my parents lost many of theirs.
Africa’s small family farmers – already burdened by soil degradation, climate change, and resource competition fueled by surging populations – face an even more challenging bureaucratic hurdle: no paper to prove that the land they call home is theirs.
Theirs is a movement of political reform – demanding more freedom and government accountability – not of social protest, at least not yet.
Theirs were relatively “soft” autocracies.
Theirs was a failure not of theory, but of “data collection.”
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