In Brazil, the Bankruptcy Law ( 11. 101 / 05 ) governs court-ordered or out-of-court receivership and bankruptcy and only applies to public companies ( publicly traded companies ) with the exception of financial institutions, credit cooperatives, consortia, supplementary scheme entities, companies administering health care plans, equity companies and a few other legal entities.

In Brazil, in recent years the term Kwanzaa has been applied by a few institutions as a synonym for the festivities of the Black Awareness Day, commemorated on November 20 in honor of Zumbi dos Palmares, having little to do with the celebration as it was originally conceived.

He followed this move with an invasion of Mato Grosso, Brazil, in March 1865, an action that proved to be one of Paraguay's few successes during the war.

Polo is, however, played professionally in only a few countries, notably Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Iran, India, New Zealand, Mexico, Pakistan, Jamaica, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States .< ref >

In Brazil, there are few talk radios.

A few scattered fires ( red dots ) in northern South America: Venezuela ( left ), Guyana ( right ) and Brazil ( bottom center )

A " ciconiiform " fossil fragment from the Touro Passo Formation found at Arroio Touro Passo ( Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil ) might be of the living Wood Stork M. americana ; it is at most of Late Pleistocene age, a few 10. 000s of years.

Due to the significant number of Italian immigrants that arrived in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, gnocchi, ñoqui ( Spanish, ) or nhoque ( Portuguese, ) is a popular dish, even in areas with few Italian immigrants.

In 2011, the band did a few more shows, including Afisha Picnic festival in Moscow, Russia and the SWU Music & Arts festival in São Paulo, Brazil.

Similar deposits exist at Nkomati, Namibia, in the Thompson Belt, Canada, and a few examples from Brazil.

From the 16th century onward the Tupi, like other natives from the region, were assimilated, enslaved, or simply exterminated by Portuguese settlers and Bandeirantes ( colonial Brazil scouts ), nearly leading to their complete annihilation, with the exception of a few isolated communities.

It is also grown in temperate parts of the Southern Hemisphere: Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, the southern states of Brazil, as well as in a few lower temperature locations within the states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais, ( also in Brazil ).

Only a few years later, Bahia has become the most popular team in the Northeast of Brazil.

Still bent on making his way to Brazil, Abagnale was picked up a few weeks later by two NYPD detectives when he inadvertently walked past their unmarked police car.

Notwithstanding such politics, some few armed bands of Brazilian explorers exploited the rural and unpopulated region, not knowing whether they pertained to Brazil, Peru, or Bolivia.

Pipe bands have also been established in countries with few Scottish or Celtic connections like Thailand, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina.

The first question has been settled by the observation that the few, cursory encounters by explorers before him were barely noticed at the time and contributed nothing to the future development and history of the land which would become Brazil, the sole Portuguese-speaking nation in the Americas.

Santos lies in one of the few isolated regions of Brazil outside of the tropical Amazon Basin that receive more than of total average precipitation annually, although nearby Ubatuba approximately to the ENE is considerably wetter than Santos, receiving an average of of precipitation annually.

A few countries, such as Brazil and Kazakhstan, follow rules that are materially different overall.

Caetano spent the rest of his life in Brazil, while Tomás returned to Portugal a few years later.

The Neotropical family Callichthyidae is found in most South American river drainages ( Paraná-Paraguay, São Francisco, Atlantic Coastal basins in Brazil, Amazon, Orinoco, Maracaibo, Magdalena ), as well as in a few rivers in Panama.

Species of Gonatodes are found in Central America including southern Mexico, a few Caribbean Islands ( including Cuba, Hispanola, Jamaica and Union Island in St. Vincent and the Grenadines ) and the northern part of South America, including Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, parts of Brazil, Venezuela and the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

When the Portuguese Prime-Minister Marquis of Pombal expelled the Jesuits from Brazil in 1759, the language started to wane fast, as few Brazilians were literate in it.

Among foreign countries responding were Germany, Canada, Brazil and India.

At a third stage in the modernization process are such countries as India, Brazil, the Philippines, and Taiwan, which are ready and committed to move into the stage of self-sustaining growth.

Besides the Portuguese, significant numbers of people from other European and from diverse Latin American countries ( especially Brazil ) can be found.

Especially the dynamic economic development in emerging countries such as China, India, Russia or Brazil will cause a rising demand for adhesives in the future.

Brazil exported arms to at least forty-two countries, in all regions of the world.

Brazil engages in multilateral diplomacy through the Organization of American States and the United Nations, and has increased ties with developing countries in Africa and Asia.

These directives implied precise emphasis on: the search for political coordination with emerging and developing countries, namely India, South Africa, Russia and China ; creation of the Union of South American Nations and its derivative bodies, such as the South American Security Council ; strengthening of Mercosul ; projection at the Doha Round and WTO ; maintenance of relations with developed countries, including the United States ; undertaking and narrowing of relations with African countries ; campaign for the reform of the United Nations Security Council and for a permanent seat for Brazil ; and defense of social objectives allowing for a greater equilibrium between the States and populations.

In 2009, transgenic maize was grown commercially in 11 countries, including the United States ( where 85 % of the maize crop was genetically modified ), Argentina ( 83 % GM ), Brazil ( 36 % GM ), South Africa ( 57 % GM ), Canada ( 84 % GM ), the Philippines ( 19 % GM ) and Spain ( 20 % GM ).

Cape Verdean populations also settled Spain, Germany, Canada, and other CPLP countries ( Angola, Brazil and Guinea-Bissau ).

These issues are of particular concern to the bordering countries of Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.

Present in many countries in every continent, every year Capoeira attracts to Brazil thousands of foreign students and, often, foreign capoeiristas work hard to learn the official Brazilian language, Portuguese, in an effort to better understand and become part of the art.

It usually does not appear in countries in which the cabinet is chosen by the executive rather than by a lower house, such as in the United States ( however, coalition cabinets are common in Brazil ).

Some countries, including Finland, India, Pakistan, Russia, Brazil and Sri Lanka, as well as San Francisco in USA and Melbourne and Adelaide in Australia, use broad gauge.

Shortly after the first reported incidents in Puerto Rico, other animal deaths were reported in other countries, such as the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Brazil, United States, and Mexico.

There are recipes from Brazil and other Latin American countries that use boiled couscous molded into a timbale with other ingredients.

However, several landmarks have been achieved in the fight against it in Latin America, including a reduction by 72 % of the incidence of human infection in children and young adults in the countries of the Southern Cone Initiative, and at least three countries ( Uruguay, in 1997, and Chile, in 1999, and Brazil in 2006 ) have been certified free of vectorial and transfusional transmission.

* French group, under which they also included the countries that codified their law either in 19th or in the first half of the 20th century, using the Napoleonic code civil of year 1804 as a model ; this includes countries and jurisdictions such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, Louisiana, states of South America ( such as Brazil ), Quebec, Santa Lucia, Romania, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, and Lebanon

The Index assigns 53 countries to the next category, Flawed democracy: Argentina, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Ghana, Greece, Guyana, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mali, India, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Zambia

Several countries, notably Brazil, have declared their deforestation a national emergency.

In countries where holders of the first law degree traditionally use the title of doctor ( for example, Peru, Brazil, Macau, Portugal, Argentina, and Italy ), J. D.

In Brazil the two countries negotiations were overseen by four " Guarantor " states ( Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and the United States — four of the most powerful countries in the region ).