11.   Drug traffickers have used the country as a conduit for shipments to the U.S.

12.   He spoke about preserving the country as a secular state.

13.   The trade union movement was swept along by the same tidal wave of patriotism which affected the country as a whole.

14.   People threw flowers into the river between the two countries as a symbolic act of brotherhood.

15.   She ceded all power to her son-in-law who now runs the country as an autocracy.

16.   Upon graduation from college he wandered around the country as a bindle stiff, naively believing that he was at one with the downtrodden.

17.   City born and city bred.

18.   I have always regarded the country as something you look at through a train window, or something you occasional visit during the weekend.

19.   The phrase in the preamble to the East German Constitution describing the country as a socialist state of workers and peasants was revoked.

20.   Mike now travels the country as a consultant to small companies.