Third World country
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Other evidence included a mother, whose son was being treated for cancer on a children's ward, likening the hospital environment to "a third world country".
From BBC • Aug. 19, 2024
“It looked like a third world country, these images, the drone images that were on the nightly news,” Newsom told reporters gathered Thursday along the cleaned up tracks.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2022
"I feel like we are living in a third world country with our law and order right now," Miah’s brother-in-law Muhammad Ahsan, 44, who lives in Brooklyn, told NY Daily News.
From Fox News • Oct. 19, 2021
Instead it must fly in and out of La Guardia Airport in Queens, which Mr. Trump, and others, have likened to what one might find in a third world country.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2016
Cuomo, joined by Vice President Joe Biden, who famously compared LaGuardia to an airport in a "third world country," said ground would be broken next year on a new airport.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2015
