Alternative form of Bosnia and Herzegovina: A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe [A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Bosnia and Herzegovina. Capital and largest city: Sarajevo. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992.]
Used in a Sentence
bosnia-herzegovina
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bosnia-herzegovina.
Editorial note
Congratulations to Ukraine and Bosnia-Herzegovina for being the only countries to send gender-balanced teams of three boys and three girls.
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Alternative form of Bosnia and Herzegovina: A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe [A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Bosnia and Herzegovina. Capital and largest city: Sarajevo. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992.]
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for bosnia-herzegovina.
noun
Alternative form of Bosnia and Herzegovina: A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe [A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Bosnia and Herzegovina. Capital and largest city: Sarajevo. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992.]
Example sentences
Congratulations to Ukraine and Bosnia-Herzegovina for being the only countries to send gender-balanced teams of three boys and three girls.
Reading the title, my initial expectation was that this was going to be a Croatia/Bosnia-Herzegovina situation.
Poland, Greece, Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina are the only ones under 20% (and maybe a few others).
Islam is the most practiced religion in Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Albania, but alcohol is widely available and consumed in those countries.
He might be suggesting that Ukraine and Bosnia-Herzegovina are to be lauded for having an educational system that doesn't end up leaving half of the population behind.
The closest is probably Serbia (but they were merely complicit of a genocide committed Republika Srpska which now only exists as a part of Bosnia-Herzegovina) or Indonesia (which survived as a dictatorship before transforming to Democracy in a revolution 15 years after the East-Timor genocidal rampage; a revolution largely caused by the genocidal behavior).
The fact that Ukraine and Bosnia-Herzegovina have gender balanced teams mean that they have managed to avoid this bias, one way or another but not necessarily though positive discrimination, maybe they simply a more balanced education, maybe they have a more extensive selection process where they retrain the students from scratch before selection etc.
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How do you use bosnia-herzegovina in a sentence?
Congratulations to Ukraine and Bosnia-Herzegovina for being the only countries to send gender-balanced teams of three boys and three girls.
What does bosnia-herzegovina mean?
Alternative form of Bosnia and Herzegovina: A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe [A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Bosnia and Herzegovina. Capital and largest city: Sarajevo. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992.]
What part of speech is bosnia-herzegovina?
bosnia-herzegovina is commonly used as noun.