Sri Lanka has been designated as a reserve host country.

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If the immigrant stays on (and quite a few do not), the benefits will diminish as he ages, but at least he has given his host country a breathing space.

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In the past, exhibition events were used as a sort of trial for sports popular in the host country or those having received wider acceptance.

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As a neutral country during World War II, Portugal played host to spies, deposed royalty, black marketers and many others who came to stay at the hotel and play in the casino on the Estoril Coast outside Lisbon.

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As is the case with a country like China, we have a whole host of bilateral issues that we deal with countries on, as we did in the recent trip.

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The host country is approaching it sulkily, with its credibility as a treaty-maker damaged and in a spirit of defiance that will hardly encourage others to lower their barriers to commerce (see article).

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There is clearly a demonstrated global market for Boeing airplanes and Caterpillar construction and agricultural machinery, as well as a host of high-tech and fashion-related products now being churned out in factories scattered across the country.

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