How to use "countries" in a sentence

The stranger explained in great detail how he used to work for the government in foreign countries and that, now he was retired, he wanted to move to South America with his wife and daughter

In half the countries in the world, there were secret police, modern gestapos, and citizens lived in fear of a late-night knock on the door

These diplomatic and intelligence-gathering assignments were never an insult to his family name, but they were always minor postings to embassies in smaller countries like Iceland and Ecuador and Tonga, nothing for which The New York Times would deign to acknowledge his existence.

George had been directly responsible for the expenditure of tens of millions of dollars and, eventually, for the control of hundreds of agents in a dozen countries

Close to the shore was a large number of fishing-boats from various countries, and steamboats from the Thames

In many countries and at different times in history, girls had very little or no education

There was progress in some countries

Today, Malala and her father, Ziauddin, work in many countries

In some countries, children have to work to get money for their family.

The education of girls is still an important problem for countries around the world

There have been many women who have fought for human rights in different countries

What about today? In the 20th century, women in many countries fought for the vote and got it

In Saudi Arabia and some other countries, like Pakistan, it is difficult for women to go out to vote

In most countries, they can now vote

But, during these times, countries like China, Egypt and Iran had feminist movements, too

In many European countries, married women still had very few rights

Countries in the West are not the only countries that have important feminist writers and thinkers

In the 1950s, many countries in the West became quite rich

Today, in many countries, women need to go out to work to help their families

We know that, in many countries, women started to get the vote in the first years of the 20th century

These are a few of the women who have led or are leading their countries as prime ministers or presidents

In 2018, a woman was president or prime minister in sixteen countries.

In countries where women do well, she said, everyone does well.

But, in many countries, it is still hard for women to enter into politics

But the numbers change a lot in different countries

In 2017, four of the countries with the highest number of women in their parliaments were in Central and South America

But only twenty-two women played in those Games, out of the 997 people from nineteen countries

Also, about 50 million people watched it on TV in the USA, and about 90 million in thirty-seven other countries watched it

In many countries, women's fight to be in sports has taken longer

Progress is coming slowly to other countries

Today, women in many different countries are using MeToo every day to tell people about the assault and harassment they get

In many countries, it is very difficult for women to talk about sexual assault