0 countries of the world considered or acting together as a group:
Any taking of hostages is unacceptable and must be firmly opposed by the international community.
1 a phrase used especially by politicians and in newspapers to describe all or several of the countries in the world, or their governments, considered as a group:
"The international community", the Secretary-General of the UN said, "must work together to tackle the current financial crisis".
Efforts by the international community to bring peace to the region have intensified over the past six months.
Many in the international community warned that failure to act promptly could put millions at risk of starvation.
The role of the international community is most instrumental in the pre-war period.
The international community is one of these, and is no less inclined to compromises in difficult political stalemates than the domestic players are.
How much does the international community value the conservation of some 650 elephants?
However, they have become increasingly unable to sustain the continued interest of the international community, mostly because of recent manifestations of donor fatigue.
After this, all parties to the conflict bickered constantly over the successive mediation and partition plans presented by the international community.
The international community also ignored some early warnings.
When the international community set about to hold a referendum starting in 1991, it had to make a pragmatic distinction.
In none of these cases has the international community done anything substantive to stop these practices.
