Newish parties wholeheartedly opposed to EU membership did well in two of the Union's biggest countries.
It advised the world's biggest corporations and some of its biggest countries about high-level strategy.
Threats to the two biggest countries historically came from their Central Asian hinterlands.
Only with a serious political commitment from the biggest countries can the Doha round achieve a final trade deal.
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The growing budget deficits in some of the biggest countries in the eurozone, including Germany and France is causing concern.
"I would say one of the biggest countries is Zambia, " she adds.
Most analysts doubt that Central Europe's biggest countries Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have a chance of meeting the 3% deficit limit by 2007.
Today the Islamic world boasts muscular companies and hectic stockmarkets (the market capitalisation of the region's three biggest countries, Turkey, Egypt and Iran, doubled between 2003 and 2008).
It is a show of unity meant to ease concerns about policy divisions between the two biggest eurozone countries.
Over the past four years, Spain has created two-thirds of all new jobs in the euro area's biggest four countries.
Most children adopted from Africa go to the United States or France, two of the world's biggest receiving countries, Selman said.
Russia and Canada, the two biggest Arctic countries by area, have encouraged this fear: the Arctic stirs fierce nationalist sentiment in both.
One of the world's biggest producer countries, Brazil, gave in to pressure from its farmers last September and approved the planting of a variety of GM soyabeans.
In the five biggest EU countries large majorities, ranging from 77% in Britain to a staggering 92% in France, told a recent poll that he would have a positive impact on international events.
The result was still disappointing in many ways, especially to developing countries, and yet since the round's completion in 1993 the world economy has grown lustily and the biggest developing countries, China, India and Brazil, have all burst on to the global trading scene.
HUNTER-GAULT: And keeping them in school is the biggest challenge facing countries like Malawi.
The site is now the biggest social network in countries ranging from Indonesia to Colombia.
The survey, which covers the six biggest euro-area countries, uses branded goods where possible, to allow like-for-like comparisons.
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One of the biggest questions for Arab countries, which are beginning to reap their own demographic dividends, is whether they will follow East Asia or Latin America.
And its biggest aid recipients were countries such as Russia, Israel, Egypt, Ukraine and Colombia, countries in which hardly any part of the aid was used strictly for development purposes.
Don't you think that people would be proud that they had acquired a weapon which until now has been possessed only by the biggest and most industrialised countries in the world?
Rita Yahan-Farouz is a 50-year-old pop star and one of the biggest singing sensations in both countries.
Infant mortality was lowest in the high-growth countries, and improved in those countries by the biggest margin.
Though developed countries remain the biggest spenders, recent attention has centred on less traditional sources of capital.
These happen to be the areas where Central and Eastern European countries have their biggest comparative advantage.
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And not surprisingly, the biggest growth is recorded in countries where there is an abundance of natural resources.
The U.S., Turkey, Serbia, China and Russia were the biggest non-EU source countries.
Even the biggest banks in fiscally stronger countries could eventually face a crunch.
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