• And they expect you to put aside your ego, work with the new president they elected and put the interests of the country first.

    CNN: Commentary: Guess who's not giving Obama full support?

  • When the country first passed laws supporting film-making in 1927, it forced cinemas to show a minimum quota of British films, arguing that they needed special protection.

    ECONOMIST: Hollywood's startlingly British blockbusters

  • To fulfill these financial resolutions of spending less, living within our means, and paying off our debt, the country first needs to encourage production rather than discourage it.

    FORBES: New Year's Resolutions for the Country

  • Those here for more than two years (but less than five) would be eligible to apply for temporary work status, but they would have to leave the country first to do so.

    NPR: Q&A: Will the Senate Move on Immigration?

  • The past year will remain a powerful example of how a country at such a pivotal moment can make a choice for a better future, and the responsibility of those in positions of authority to put the country first.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Though the new road will make it easy for short trips, resort-style hikes and commercial luxuries, it will cut out the earlier walking paths that Nepal and its loyal trekkers have coveted since the country first opened its doors to outsiders in 1949.

    BBC: Nepal��s shrinking Annapurna Circuit

  • They embraced fiscal austerity aimed at slashing their debt and their recovery has lagged far behind the US. The U.K. Treasury just announced that they expected the economy to contract slightly in 2012, four years after the country first slipped into recession.

    FORBES: We Don't Need Another Short-Term Patch for our Fiscal Woes

  • To combat the fat, health professionals say that the country must first realise that it is indeed in the grip of an epidemic.

    ECONOMIST: Fat Mexico

  • Coca-Cola, the world's largest beverage company, announced plans in June to return to the country for the first time in 60 years.

    CNN: Visa coming to Myanmar

  • The nation's utilities have embraced the concept and are installing millions of automated meters on homes across the country, the first phase in Smart Grid's deployment.

    CNN: 'Smart Grid' may be vulnerable to hackers

  • This is the second known use of a sapphire in jewellery found in the country, the first being a 5th Century Roman example, said the museum.

    BBC: Escrick sapphire ring's mystery history sparks meeting

  • Libyan oil exports to the US were resumed and in 2005, US energy companies invested in the country for the first time in more than two decades.

    BBC: NEWS | Africa | A history of Libya's ties with the US

  • The shadow home secretary also called for the creation of a "dedicated UK Border Police" in order to "prevent foreign terror suspects from entering the country in the first place".

    BBC: Bail for Islamic preacher Qatada

  • The plant will be one of the largest solar projects in the country and the first to store heat on a large scale so that it can continue to make electricity after sunset.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Three days after the election, Secretary of State Clinton announced that the United States was suspending sanctions against Burma and would be appointing an Ambassador to the country for the first time in twenty-two years.

    NEWYORKER: The Burmese Spring

  • The fund will be called the South Sudan Transition Trust Fund (SSTTF), and will be made available to the country in the first few months after independence, the World Bank said in a Press release statement.

    FORBES: World Bank Sets Up $75 Million Fund For South Sudan

  • Another drag on prices has come from India, the world's biggest buyer of gold bullion, which introduced a 50% import tax that has triggered a 24% fall in the amount of gold brought into the country in the first quarter of this year.

    BBC: Gold price declines to two-year low

  • Doing it will not be easy, because the top chaebol remain powerful (the four biggest account for a third of domestic output) and because competition will accelerate bankruptcies and lay-offs, bringing large-scale unemployment to the country for the first time in 20 years.

    ECONOMIST: South Korea��s new start

  • As a result, Google has been losing market share in China, according to research firm Analysys International, which estimates the company had a 17% share of search revenue in the country in the first quarter, down from 36% in the fourth quarter of 2009.

    WSJ: Google Tips Off Users in China

  • But with the opening of the city's first contemporary art museums, the country's first W Hotel, and a growing restaurant scene, tourists are starting to get a taste of the vibrant cultural life that has been bubbling beneath the city's ornate veneer.

    BBC: St Petersburg goes back to the future

  • With the markets shying away, the country will not be able to borrow afresh next year, as had originally been hoped when the country was first bailed out in May 2010.

    ECONOMIST: Europe's debt crisis: World's worst menu | The

  • David Cameron is expected to visit Burma this week and will be the first western leader to visit the country since it first fell foul of international sanctions in the late nineties.

    BBC: PM's Burma visit 'a bold move'

  • Part of this was simply that the UK was the first country to industrialise and thus, obviously, as others did so they would catch up.

    FORBES: The Economic Legacy Of Margaret Thatcher

  • The UK is the first country in the world to introduce such a system across its whole healthcare system, the GMC said in a statement.

    BBC: Foreign doctors' training stepped up, says GMC

  • According to economist Steve Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics, at Johns Hopkins University, the Republic is the first country in the Middle East to ever have hyperinflation -- defined as an economy seeing its monthly inflation rate soar 50% or more each month.

    CNN: Analysis: Why Iran is caught in currency crisis

  • Midsummer Eve is celebrated across the whole country on the first Friday after 21 June every year.

    BBC: Here comes the sun in Sweden

  • Silver went to Portugal, giving the country its first medal of the Games.

    CNN: Olympics Day 12: Golden day for the U.S.

  • In October, the Caribbean country allowed the first new Catholic church in 55 years to be built, according to The Associated Press.

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  • The Dominican Republic was the first country to give aid to Haiti in the earthquake's aftermath, sending food, medicine and rescue crews.

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  • And from September, the UK will become the first country to offer the flu vaccine - via a nasal spray - to all healthy children free of charge.

    BBC: Shingles vaccine to be routine for people in their 70s

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