Finland

One of the lands of the midnight sun, Finland has much more to offer than the cold nights, saunas, and skiing it is often associated with.

When winter comes, I'll go up to the Gulf of Finland, where the frost is quite peculiar, in fact the best-looking in Russia.

It would then be up to Germany to decide whether to leave, perhaps with Austria, the Netherlands and Finland.

Philip Morris Finland said the incineration resulted in a significant financial loss for the company.

Nikolai Lenin, who had first met him in 1905 in Finland, set him to work writing an article on the Marxist theory of governing minorities.

I do not know how China views these things, but if someone in Finland play this game, then it would be their last business trip.

The landscape changed when Finland began trying to remold its bloody, fractured past into a unified future.

Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland and Hungary provide up to three years of paid leave for mothers.

Did not have to break off with W. after all, for as luck would have it, she ran off to Finland with a professional circus geek.

From Finland to Spain, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, midsummer is often associated with huge public bonfires.

Finland is a country known for lakes, I have been a few times, very fond of that place.

She said the two parliaments of Finland and China have cooperated well in a range of ways.

Sam is kindly enough to present a skateboard to me. It's a local brand in Finland, the pattern is one of the hallmarks of Finland - sauna!

I'm ready to place an order with you, but only one condition is that the goods are confined to Finland.

"We already had a good relationship from my time at Spurs when he was coach at Finland or Fulham, " he said.

Finland's teens score extraordinarily high on an international test. American educators are trying to figure out why.

These areas are situated around the Finnish coast from Mid-part of Gulf of Finland up to the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia.

In Finland, outperforming your neighbor isn't very important. Everybody is average, but you want that average to be very high.

So he decided to hold the boy back a year, a measure so rare in Finland it's practically obsolete.

Finland experienced several wars, since the beginning of the 20th century Finnish design had developed not in the pure manner.

Finland's prime minister is pledging to tighten gun laws following the country's second school massacre in less than a year.

I met a nice French guy on a freezing morning in Rovaniemi, Finland. He was kind enough to drive me to the husky farm on a snowmobile .

The company, based in Espoo, Finland, did not specify a new target.

Is the applicant not allowed to leave Finland for four years?

If Finland, Russia's immediate neighbour, feels twitchy enough to think about joining NATO, that may ignite debate in Sweden.

But from time to time, i couldn't helping thinking of the great life in Finland, and the lovely colleagues i met there as well.

It was my first time back in Finland for quite a long time, too, so it was great to turn up as a grand prix winner!

A long-term study out of Finland discovered that uncertainty about your role in your workplace can up the risk of a heart attack over time.

Canada supplanted Japan as the top performer among the Group of Seven leading economic powers, although outright winner was again Finland.

Exhibitions of her work have been held in states along the East Coast and in England , Finland, Germany, and Italy .

Of late, one of her subjects has been premodern mothers among the Sami people of Finland, who are famous for their reindeer herding.

Finland , followed by France, offers workers the most statutory vacation, at more than six weeks a year, the report says.

Serbia face Poland this Wednesday but their thin hopes of qualification will vanish if Portugal grab at least a point against Finland.

Denmark, as a flower export country in north Europe, is also one of the importing country of Finland and is closer to Finland.

The recent general election in Finland propelled a loan-refusenik party, the True Finns, to third place in the polls.

In Helsinki, Finland she sang for the famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. He told her: "The roof of my house is too low for your voice. "

On Wednesday, Finland voted in favour of expanding the fund's powers despite earlier threats to pull out of a rescue plan for Greece.

Since the World Games began in 1981, the event has taken place in eight other cities, from Finland to Japan.

There is too much snow in Finland every year, the land is all white and it's fantastic.

East is close to the Pacific Ocean. west meets the Baltic Sea Gulf of Finland. north is near Arctic Ocean. stretches across the Eurasia.

The Bank of Finland's team doesn't disagree with that optimistic long-term assessment.

Nokia Siemens said it aims to cut up to 750 jobs in Finland and close one of its sites employing 500 staff in Munich.

Located near the North Pole, Finland is a beautiful haven of attractive lakes and forests, a country with a perfect social security system.

Only the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Sweden, plus the Netherlands) are hailed as combining the best of both worlds.

Your commissars don't tell you of these things. Commissars tell you that Finland attacked the Soviet Union.

And a third picture by Peter Cairns, called 'Osprey at work', shows the bird creating a splash as it catches a fish in Pirkanmaa, Finland.

Particularly in the Ukraine and Finland, Russification was used as a means of asserting political domination.

I shall also take this opportunity to welcome all the delegates from Finland, Russia and China.

Both agreed that China and Finland should strengthen communication and coordination in their joint efforts to help resolve relevant issues.

The FDA based its approval of the SPOT-Light test on a study using tumor samples from patients with breast cancer in the U. S. and Finland.

Rice canceled consultations in Italy and Finland, but will stop in Denmark on her way back to Washington.

Sweden, Finland Nordic countries near the North Pole, winter long in most areas, almost half the time cannot see the sun.

Hameenlinna is a very beautiful place in Finland.

In a historic shift, Finland upended Norway as the best-performing country on this year's index.

Take the taxi drivers for instance. Taxis in Finland are mostly high class Benz with a fare of two US dollars a kilometer.

In Finland, a traditional bride-to-be walks door-to-door with a pillowcase to receive her wedding presents.

This part of northern Finland has been showered with the gift of more tourists wanting to see Santa.

The systems also are in use by the military forces of Switzerland, Finland and Spain, the company said.

One of the most popular games for smartphones, for instance, does not hail from the Valley but from Finland.

The couple flew out of Finland, where the procedure was performed on the former England captain, by private jet yesterday.

Fayed's private Gulfstream jet transported five sacks of sand to Finland to make a beach for the Fayed children, only to be swept away.

On New Year's Eve, I boarded the train to Moscow with an interim stop in Leningrad's Finland Station.

Up to the 1970's, Finland was a black part of Europe with respect to tuberculosis.

Another study, by the US Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, examined the cases of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland and Sweden.

Finland's capital and largest city, Helsinki is recognized as a major design and business hub and is home to the Helsinki Stock Exchange.

Masses of granite only a few kilometers away herald the vast granite area of Central Finland to the west.

The eclipse was also visible from Finland, Sweden, Siberia, northern China, parts of Alaska and Canada, and Iceland.

As already shown in Finland, improvement with the French vaccination policy should lead to the prevention of rubella encephalitis.

Other countries that have requested to purchase the system include Canada, Finland, and Switzerland.

Nokia has partnered with Expedia for the US and UK launch of the tool after using HRS for a replica system in Germany and Finland.

Of the 12 early members of the euro, all but Belgium, Luxembourg and Finland have overrun the budget rule at least once.

If this was the state of, say, Finland, one might just believe it.

Norway, Sweden and Finland allowed a few mainly domestic flights to operate, taking advantage of clearing skies.

Finally, Nokia wasn't located near a cluster of similar companies. Building a technology giant in Finland was a great achievement.

In few parts of the world do high achievers aspire to teaching (exceptions like Finland and South Korea have the best schools).

The first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between the U. S. and U. S. S. R. opened in Helsinki. Finland.

"It seems that Nokia is now ready for an international charismatic leader, " said Microsoft Finland CEO Ari Rahkonen.

The 10 best places to be a mother are: Norway, Australia, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands, and France.

Finland's Hakkinen won the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday after his rivals Schumacher went out of the race with an exploded rear tyre.

Do you know anything about Finland? Look at the brands of your parents' mobile phones. Maybe it's a Nokia phone.

Beckham, who will undergo surgery in Finland today, will be out of action for a minimum of four months.

The ambitious move, years in the pipeline, forms part of a government-wide strategy to reform higher education across Finland.

A nationalist party in Finland opposed to immigration has seen a dramatic surge in votes in the general election.

Minority governments, although common in other Nordic countries, are frowned on in Finland and would only be considered as a last resort.

Kone Elevator India, the subsidiary of Kone Corporation of Finland, plans to invest in a second manufacturing facility near Chennai.

Finland was the first to demand sanctions against Libya; Cyprus and Malta the last to agree.

So half of the building blocks are from Finland, with a quarter from Denmark, meaning 75% comes from the Nordics.

Visitors from as far away as Finland make their way to this primary rainforest jungle in the heart of Sabah, East Malaysia.

Also near the top on PISA were five countries that should come as no surprise: Singapore, Taipei, Finland, South Korea and Japan.

But sceptics note that rich, single-minded Finland is over budget and behind schedule with its new nuclear-power plant.

The session was held at the Konstantinovsky Palace by the side of the Gulf of Finland.

Many rich nations were in the bottom half of the list, including Denmark (22nd) and Finland (28th).

Sweden, Iceland, Denmark and Finland were also among the top five in the ICT Development Index.

Police in Finland have caught a car thief thanks to a DNA sample taken from a sample of his blood found inside a mosquito.

In Finland, they get an afternoon off a week for this.

Google is currently testing out a new user interface design in Finland and the button is conspicuous by its absence.

Nearly 30 percent of Finland's children receive some kind of special help during their first nine years of school.

Kemira is a multinational group of companies with its headquarters in Helsinki, Finland.

The harsh reality is that Finland isn't in the mainstream of Europe, never mind that of the global economy.

At its height the Swedish Empire included parts of present day Norway, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Germany, and Poland.

In the second period two northern countries, Finland and Sweden, were the best of the Euro-bunch.

He groaned and said that he had been visited by Finland's trade minister.

Countries in the north of europe , such as finland , norway and sweden , is all small countries.

Scientists from the US and Finland recently published research showing the discovery of a gene linked to premature births.

The project was conducted in a day surgery unit of a hospital in western Finland.

"Finland is a very small country. The size of the market is very small so it is not very difficult to realise we have to expand abroad. "

As Finland and the Netherlands are separated by the sea, so direct transportation by land is not available.

While at IMA, he developed a computer-based marketing center that linked textile firms in the United States, FinlanD, and Great Britain.

People in Finland were the least likely to believe that people laughing in their presence were making fun of them.

The Arsenal defender has a British father and a Finnish mother and has represented both England and Finland at youth level.

In about two years, according to Finland-based mobile giant Nokia, the "phone" we hold will be equipped with a tiny digital camera.

Finland solved the same problem by staging marathons in which participants had to keep three hauls going, at the neck, hips, and knees.

By 2006, Finland was first out of 57 countries (and a few cities) in science.

At Finland, the old grandmother would be hot a the cup red vinegar Li juice drink for the grandson of common cold.

In Finland, as elsewhere, smokers are more likely to have a history of depression or current symptoms of depression than are nonsmokers .

If the party joins government, as seems likely, Finland will take a tougher line on future bail-outs of troubled economies.

A mathematical application of such methods produces the top six most complex economies: Japan, Germany, Sweden, the UK, Finland and the US.

Germany would form the heart of one group, along with Finland, the Netherlands, and Austria.

A total of nine countries border the sea: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Sweden.

In Finland, standard treatment antidepressants drug therapy, five to six individual psychotherapy sessions and psychiatric counselling.

A more ambitious target, such as getting educational attainment up to Finland's stellar levels, would mean even bigger gains.

Finland invested in communications and IT at exactly the right time. For a relatively small economy this had a huge payoff.

Only a few weeks old, the Carrick family took William with them to the port of Kronstadt in the Gulf of Finland.

But it may not be as impossible as it sounds: Finland has a tradition of governments where all parties compromise to some extent.

It is reported that the Gulf of Finland waters have frozen more than a month, and 1 m thick ice trapped the vessel can only wait for rescue.

A new contract in Finland meant that Ben was to work there until it was completed.

Germany's budget is now virtually in balance. Spain, Ireland and Finland are all running surpluses.

Similar mobile-TV networks will also be built in Finland and America, and are being tested in many other countries.

Halonen said she was glad to visit China and attend the national pavilion day of Finland at the Shanghai Expo.

Because of this busy time it felt great, for a while, to drop by back at home in Finland.

The top math performers included Finland, Korea, the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland and New Zealand.

Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May, as in the U. S.

Some countries, including Singapore, Taiwan, Finland and China, are pursuing policies that are explicitly designed to spur innovation.

You definately need to see something outside Helsinki. Check some countryside and find a "real" Finland.

I moved to Sweden from Finland in 1999, just as the big crime novel wave was beginning.

Thanks to all Liverpool fans in Finland. It's been great to see during these years how many fans Liverpool have in Finland.

Communicate and discuss about drawing; material; assemble procedure; inspect methods; painting; standard with Finland.

Why is Finland, with its tax distortions and subsidies, as rich as it is?

Pohjois-Savo Polytechnic is one of the biggest polytechnics in Eastern Finland with approximately 5000 students.

Investigations in Germany, Finland, Croatia and Hungary have also led to Singaporean syndicates.

All in all by the end of November, when the war with Finland started, the Air Force CBF had 124 seaplanes (114 of them combat-ready).

"The EU is between a rock and a hard place, " says Alexander Stubb, Finland's foreign minister.

At Oulanka National Park in the far north of Finland, a forest floor outshines the sky.

Finland and China have had good cooperation in various spheres.

Kauppinen, PhD, currently a neurology research fellow at SFVAMC and UCSF, when she was a graduate student in Finland.

With the analysis method, it researches the skiers competitive style and athletic skill in Finland world cup freestyle skiing aerials games.

Fazer has three confectionery factories located in Finland, making chocolate products, sugar confectionery and chewing gum.

Earlier, Norway, Sweden and Finland had allowed a few mainly domestic flights to operate.

I'm going to Canada. Because Canada's environment and wellfare are good. Also like Australia, Sweden, Finland, are all such.

In the latest PISA survey, in 2009, Finland placed second in science literacy, third in mathematics and second in reading. The U.

Polls have shown in Finland that most people support nuclear.

The next culprit is Russia, followed by China, America and Finland (see chart).

Wang will soon take his squad to Portugal where they will go head to head with the United States, Sweden and Finland in the group round.

Similar measures had previously been adopted in several European countries, including Denmark, Finland, France and Sweden.

He's now running a sporting goods conglomerate in Finland -- with totally different products and different distribution challenges.

We all like to spend every festival with families and members' company from Beijing, Kunming, Finland and United States.

Government debt is dangerously wobbly in Italy and Spain, yet political approval of the deal has hit trouble in Germany and Finland.

Saunas originated in Finland and according to Finns a proper sauna will cause you to sweat a quart of fluid an hour.

Through the ice of the Baltic Sea , a German fleet approached the Gulf of Finland and Russia's capital Petrograd.

Vanhanen also thanked the NPC for dispatching a high-level delegation to Finland to attend centennial activities of the Finnish Parliament.

The first open-air, solar-powered restaurant in Europe opened recently in Helsinki, capital of Finland, Xinhua reported.

Finland already imperiled the Greek rescue by cutting a side collateral deal with Athens, prompting fury from others.

Life on the dole: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. They're cold. They're dark. And they're the best places on Earth to be sacked.

Halonen explained how Finland's parliament works and its cooperation with parliaments of other European Union member states.

Finland's education ministry has three full-time staff handling school visits by foreign politicians, officials and journalists.

Christmas Day itself, which in many countries is the high point of the holiday season, is almost an anti-climax in Finland.

Building a technology giant in Finland was a great achievement.

Countries like Finland and South Korea make life easier for themselves by recruiting only elite graduates, and paying them accordingly.

In the Scandinavian country of Finland, midsummer is the main festival of the year.

He orchestrated directly to the performance of the symphonic works of Finland's landscape, with the cold weather -- dark, bleak and Cukuang.

The firm will also get a new operational structure and leadership team, more of whom will come from outside Finland.

More instructive, perhaps, is looking not at how Finland's schools are run, but how decisions about education are made.

Finland maintained a democratic government and market economy, unlike other countries bordering the Soviet Union.

He had taught himself Arabic also, and read esoteric books, and hoped to astonish everyone by publishing in journals in Finland or Turkey.

In Finland, for example, legend tells of an arctic fox sweeping snow into the sky with its tail.

Luxembourg topped the list, followed by Bern, Switzerland, Helsinki, Finland, and Zurich, Switzerland.

Finland has been a long-term supporter of UN-Habitat.

Profits are redistributed to disabled soldiers from Finland (hence the blue-white colors), then also to war injured from Denmark and Norway.

To be sure, it was only in the past decade that Finland's international science scores rose.

Professor Sakari Orava, who performed the operation in Finland , insisted the 34 -year-old should be able to play again .

She hopes that Finland and China can continue to promote exchanges between the parliaments.

A naturally occurring sweetener, xylitol had primarily been known in Finland for its effectiveness in preventing tooth decay.

A city of northwest European U. S. S. R. on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland.

Yup, I'm back in Finland with the snow, reindeers, and polar bears.

Last month the Netherlands vetoed (with Finland) the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the EU's Schengen passport-free travel zone.

Austria, Benelux, Denmark, Finland, France, Sweden, Switzerland.

The strategic aim for Finland is to secure sustainable and balanced social and economic development.

From India to Finland to America, postmen have fewer letters to deliver, meaning sharply lower profits or even losses for postal services.

The first public premiere of augmented reality on Nokia's N900 mobile device will be shown in the Finland Pavilion.

Finland is remarkable for the large number of its lakes.

Finland may be famed for its long, dark winters, but it's also home to some of the brightest new ideas in mobile technology.

Rounding out the top 10 least corrupt nations were Finland, the Netherlands, Australia, Canada and Iceland.

The vessel, the Arctic Sea, was sailing from Finland to Algeria with a cargo of timber.

Military forces will also attack Finland, whereby many will be killed and an enormous destruction will be caused.

Topping the list as the world's least corrupt nation is Denmark, followed by New Zealand, Singapore, Finland, Sweden, and Canada.

A pile of fallen maple leaves catches a few rays of extra color from a sunset in Finland.

Nokia Siemens, which makes telecommunications equipment, is a joint venture of Nokia of Finland and Siemens of Germany.

Northern Europe: (Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, etc. ) the Nordic countries businessmen businessmen Bimei law is much more quiet.

Nokia Corp. of Finland ranked first with a 25. 1% share of the total 427. 8 million global unit sales, Gartner said.

Later, they were given to the national museum in Helsinki, Finland, where they remain today.

Finland supports the constructive and valuable work of WIPO and its Secretariat in the field of Intellectual Property.

In a bizarre sign of overheating, some Estonian firms are even importing workers from Finland.

Photo: People at a Tampere, Finland, church following news of the shootings .

CHILEAN officials like to compare their country to Finland and New Zealand, rather than its South American neighbours.

He has an impressive pedigree that includes touches of Finland, which perhaps explains the Aalto-like feel of this house.

Ahtisaari began his career as a school teacher before joining Finland's foreign ministry.

In Finland we have developed renewable energy techniques, passive house concepts and other environmental technologies and products.

Finally, the ministers nodded to Finland, whose government had insisted on Greece posting collateral to secure any new loans.

America's 15-year-olds have not been distinguishing themselves in the PISA exams compared with students in Singapore, Finland and Shanghai.

Virtanen's group in Finland has demonstrated a very subtle type of resistance to infection by fusarium .

Finland's schools were not always a wonder.

" What's the capital of Finland ? " my mother asked me , looking at the magazine story .

Van Persie will miss Netherlands' European Championship qualifiers against San Marino and Finland.

The top five performers were Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

The celebration of St. Lucia Day began in Sweden, but had spread to Denmark and Finland by the mid-nineteenth century.

He is a registered psychotherapist in Sweden and has gone to Finland, USA and China for the purpose of teaching and scientific research.

Squaw Valley, when Finland and Norway took Turns to lead in a dramatic race ending in Finland's victory.

For those venturing further afield, then Finland's network of wilderness huts offers hikers equally basic free shelter.

Congenital nephrosis of the Finnish type (CNF) is rare outside Finland, where the incidence may be as high as 1 in 2000 live births.

The mood is fiercer in Finland and the Netherlands, which have influential Eurosceptic parties, German officials point out.

Four countries shared the top rating: Finland, Iceland, Ireland and the Netherlands.

Finland's Nokia ranked first with a 25. 1% share of the total 427. 8 million global unit sales, Gartner said.

a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland.

Originating in Finland's bogs, competitive skiers began using football matches in knee-deep mud to strengthen their legs.

The Sami are instead considered an indigenous people, and traditionally live in the Northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.

Across from the Denmark and Finland pavilions are the Latvia and Estonia pavilions.

By whom test use being hot to melt glue have good, Finland brand too, etc. , Henkel of German and way of Shanghai.

Bail-outs require unanimity (Finland also needs parliamentary approval to participate), giving the country a veto.

Authorities in Finland and Sweden reported the drift of radioactive clouds towards Scandinavia.

The volunteers were participants in Finland's Dietary, Lifestyle and Genetic determinants of Obesity and Metabolic syndrome (DILGOM) study.

"There is no reason to re-assess our monetary policy stance, " Erkki Liikanen, Finland's central bank governor, told Bloomberg news agency.

Finland, Brazil and France are the champs, guaranteeing six weeks of time off.

Within the euro zone, Germany and Finland, and the Slovak Republic display similar trends.

Finland does not rank tops in any category, but does get strong marks for its students reading skills.

There is a even big tourist theme park called "Christmas Land" in the north of Finland, near to where they say that Father Christmas lives.

As in other European countries, Finland merged specialist academic and vocational schools into comprehensive ones in the 1970s.

The figures are from a report released on Monday by the Arts Council of Finland.

Approximately one third of problem gamblers in Finland suffer from pathological gambling.

Most of them were Norwegian and German, but they also came from such countries as Sweden, Ukraine, England, Finland, and Iceland.

A reputation for efficiency and organization has also made Finland host to many international meetings.