toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

Bangladesh
in a sentence

show 23 more with this conextual meaning
  • After attending a conference of development experts in Bangladesh, Mortenson decided CAI schools should educate students only up through the fifth grade and focus on increasing the enrollment of girls.†   (source)
  • Today the countries are Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, but they're going through exactly what my grandfather did almost a hundred years ago.†   (source)
  • I know from Janice that Sherrie's husband is away most of the time, he's in Tokyo right now working on bridge financing for an industrial complex in Bangladesh.†   (source)
  • Just about every economist would argue that China should stop artificially cheapening its currency, but getting it to do so would not dramatically increase low-skill manufacturing employment in the U.S. Most analyses show that in response to a rising yuan, American manufacturing companies would more likely shift production to other low-wage countries—like Indonesia, Bangladesh, or Mexico—than to U.S. factories.†   (source)
  • There were way too many things that had to get made in places like China and Bangladesh.†   (source)
  • He promptly sent her an air ticket to Bangladesh.†   (source)
  • The first documented acid attack occurred in 1967, in what is now Bangladesh.†   (source)
  • Geeta grew up in a poor village in Bangladesh and fled from abusive parents when she was eleven.†   (source)
  • Richard Parker was born in Bangladesh and raised in Tamil Nadu, so why should he have a French accent?†   (source)
  • A video denigrating Mohammed had appeared on an Iranian web service and had quickly spread, sparking rioting in Pakistan and Bangladesh.†   (source)
  • There were questions about how Mohammad Ali Jinnah had created our country as the first Muslim homeland and also about the national tragedy of how Bangladesh came into being.†   (source)
  • From his reading, he decided that the two finest rural development programs then running in the world were in the Philippines and Bangladesh.†   (source)
  • "A lot of people call Bangladesh the armpit of Asia," Mortenson says, "because of its extreme poverty.†   (source)
  • In the country that had once been called East Pakistan, Mortenson visited BARRA, the Bangladesh Rural Reconstruction Association.†   (source)
  • After the country split, Bangladesh was initially presumed to be hopeless, and Henry Kissinger famously dubbed it a "basket case.†   (source)
  • Yet it is also incomparably more stable than Pakistan, of which it was a part until 1971 (Bangladesh was called East Pakistan until then).†   (source)
  • One carefully conducted experiment in Matlab, Bangladesh, found that after three years family planning programs reduced the average number of births to 5.†   (source)
  • Anecdotal evidence in Bangladesh and other countries suggests that loosening controls over antibiotics and encouraging women to take them postpartum will reduce death from sepsis.†   (source)
  • The upshot is that Bangladesh today has a significant civil society and a huge garment industry full of women workers who power a dynamic export sector.†   (source)
  • Consider Bangladesh for a moment.†   (source)
  • In Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus developed microfinance at the Grameen Bank and targeted women borrowers--eventually winning a Nobel Peace Prize for the economic and social impact of his work.†   (source)
  • There are many reasons for the different outcomes, including the cancer of violence that spread from Afghanistan to Pakistan and the Bengali intellectual tradition that has moderated extremism in Bangladesh.†   (source)
  • Yet surely one reason Bangladesh is more stable today is that it invested enormously in women and girls, so that a girl in Bangladesh is far more likely to go to school than a Pakistani girl, and afterward far more likely to hold a job.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)