Sentences with phrase «lost continent of»

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The sprouting of these islands of legality, observers predict, will spur other states to open up their cannabis markets lest they lose out on revenue and tourism, much as the casino gambling pioneered in Las Vegas became ubiquitous across the continent.

It feels like the war - like continent is afraid of losing its leadership status... and 3.

Anyone who loses respect for this savage continent is in danger of paying the ultimate price.

Having lost a sense of history, and thus their own identity, Christians were not able to participate fully in the historical process in the continent.

Sarah calls for Africa and Asia to protect their cultures and governments from the political, financial, and moral future proposed by the West: «Mankind would lose much if these continents were to fall into the huge, formless magma of globalization, which is directed toward an inhumane ideal that is in fact hideous, barbaric oligarchy.»

Berbatov has been linked with a number of clubs on the continent, most notably Lazio and his former side Bayer Leverkusen, but having spent the past six years in England he is apparently hoping to be thrown a Premier League lifeline but does not wish to continue to warm the bench at Man United, a fact echoed by Sir Alex Ferguson who has admitted that he may well lose the talented forward.

In an interview with Marca, the former Arsenal man stated how the club had lost one of the best strikers on the continent:

They've thrown money at the two biggest weaknesses from last year, and their attacking depth rivals any team in the world: Kevin De Bruyne had six goals and 18 assists last season; David Silva has lost his hair, but he has retained the vision that makes him one of the top final - third locksmiths on the continent; Leroy Sané's smooth movement makes it look like he's playing on a pool table whenever the ball is at his feet; Raheem Sterling is closer to superstardom than anyone's willing to admit; new signing Bernardo Silva can create chances from anywhere on the field; and Gabriel Jesus averaged 1.6 goals - plus - assists per 90 minutes as a 19 - year - old last season.

So, if your club is buying a developing or a mediocre goal scorer who just scored a bagful of goals in a league on the continent, be ready for disappointment as there is a high probability of him losing his touch as soon as he lands in England.

Despite losing many top players to elite sides and not having anything like the budget of Europe's superclubs or the newly - moneyed Premier League sides, the man known as «El Cholo» has kept Atléti competing for the top prizes both in Spain and on the continent.

Its pillars — parliaments, parties and the media — have experienced damaging scandals across the continent and lost the trust of ordinary people.

She said with this recognition, she would not lose track of what, she seeks to champion but would focus on reshaping the thinking of the youth to embrace their culture and arts on continent.

When introducing her talk, Professor Jan Zielonka highlighted the fundamental issues: established parties have lost ground everywhere, while the new parties disagree on everything except their dislike of Europe; power has shifted from Brussels to Frankfurt and Berlin, yet Germany is unwilling to assume its hegemonic role in the continent; Europe's elite are totally out of touch with its citizens; and we need a new paradigm for Europe, including a theory of disintegration.

The 163 page report, which is very detailed on current affairs on the African continent, also mentioned the leader of Togo's main opposition party, the National Alliance for Change (ANC), Mr. Jean - Pierre Fabre, who challenged the incumbent President Faure Gnassingbe 2010 and 2015 but lost as the second most peaceful opposition leader in Africa and the best within the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWA) Sub-region region.

It is the hope of GII that they will not lose guard and succeed to show as a shining example for the whole continent to follow.

Delivering his speech as the Special Guest of Honor at the 59th Independence celebration held at the Black Star Square, Mr. Kenyatta said the vision of a unified continent must not be lost because of the recent spates of terrorist attacks on the continent.

For his part, Kenya President, Uhuru Kenyatta urged Ghana not to lose sight of the vision of a unified continent because of acts of terror that are eroding the efforts geared towards democracy.

The genetic traits of those lost breeds may turn out to be important, especially as animals spread across the continent and contend with different climates.

Lost ice due to climate change and left - over momentum from the end of the last big ice age mean the buoyant continent is heaven - bound.

It was observed on virtually every continent, although a particularly large number of animals became extinct in North and South America, where species including sabre - toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths and giant armadillos disappeared, and in Australia, which lost animals such as giant kangaroos, giant wombats and marsupial lions.

The retreat is especially severe in West Antarctica, widely acknowledged as the most vulnerable part of the continent and the region whose glaciers are losing the most ice.

After a nine - week voyage to study the lost, submerged continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific, a team of 32 scientists from 12 countries has arrived in Hobart, Tasmania, aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution.

«Zealandia, a sunken continent long lost beneath the oceans, is giving up its 60 million - year - old secrets through scientific ocean drilling,» said Jamie Allan, program director in the U.S. National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which supports IODP.

Go behind the scenes with artist James Gurney to see how he created the illustrations for «Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent», a feature article in the March issue of Scientific American.

A more recent study based on satellite measurements of gravity over the entire continent suggests that while the ice sheets in the interior of Antarctica are growing thicker, even more ice is being lost from the peripheries.

If these polar continents lose a mile or more of ice from their land surface, there will be less mass, and so some of the water now attracted to those polar land masses will dissipate, and go elsewhere.

Over just five years, the continent lost 564 square miles of grounded ice, an area equivalent to roughly 25 Manhattans, 12 San Franciscos or four Philadelphias.

Also, it is suggested that at least 20 % of Mg is lost from continents by chemical weathering (Mg being extremely mobile during weathering), which is one of the primary controls for finally leaving behind a Si - rich and Mg - poor continental mass, thereby decreasing crustal recycling by subduction (Lee et al. 2008), important for continental survival.

In recent years Greenland has been losing so much mass that, along with changes in Antarctica and the amount of water stored on the globe's continents, it appears to be having a subtle but measurable effect on the rotation of the Earth itself.

The two - month expedition was the first ocean - floor drilling examination of the lost continent Zealandia (Credit: IODP)

The two - month expedition was the first ocean - floor drilling examination of the lost continent Zealandia

«Zealandia, a sunken continent long lost beneath the oceans, is giving up its 60 million - year - old secrets through scientific ocean drilling,» says Jamie Allan, one of the researchers affiliated with the mission.

«The spleen is something of a lost continent in physiology.»

Under the category of adventure films, we can include traditional swashbucklers, serialized films, and historical spectacles (similar to the epics film genre), searches or expeditions for lost continents, «jungle» and «desert» epics, treasure hunts and quests, disaster films, and heroic journeys or searches for the unknown.

With The Lost City of Z, he has realized his true epic — a story that spans continents and decades — yet kept his finger on the intimate pulse that's always made his movies work: This is a great movie about ambition, colonization, and audacious dreaming, but even more than that it's a moving (and tragic) story about fathers and sons.

In this set, the always sarcastic denizens of a space station watch and make wisecracks about «Lost Continent,» «Crash of the Moons,» «The Beast of Yucca Flats» and «Jack Frost».

Also features imported Russian fantasy Jack Frost (1964), the explorers versus dinosaurs adventure Lost Continent (1951) and the Rocky Jones space adventure Crash of the Moons (1954).

Oscar Wilde ended his days lost in a miasma of bankruptcy, public infamy and viral agony, never returning to Britain after his release from Reading Gaol, but exiled to the continent.

One City in Two Continents, Europe and AsiaWorld Map, City Map, Travel Itinerary, Modes of TransportationEverything needed for an educational travel adventure, including a pet chimpanzee who gets lost in almost every city the family visits.

Riding all night, the bus half empty, toward the interior, among refineries, trellised and turreted illusory cities, the crass, the indispensable wastefulness of oil rigs offshore, of homunculi swigging at the gut of a continent: the trailers, the semis, the vans, the bumper stickers, slogans in day - glo invoking the name of Jesus, who knows what it means: the air waves, the brand name, the backyard Barbie - doll barbecue, graffiti in video, the burblings, the dirges: heart like a rock, I said Kathy I'm lost, the scheme is a mess, we've left Oklahoma, its cattle, sere groves of pecan trees interspersing the horizonless belch and glare, the alluvium of the auto junkyards, we're in Kansas now, we've turned off the freeway, we're meandering, as again night falls, among farmsteads, the little towns with the name of a girl on the watertower, the bandstand in the park at the center, the churches alight from within, perpendicular...

Spanning two continents and the dramatic sweep of history, A Partial History of Lost Causes reveals the stubbornness and splendor of the human will even in the most trying times.

The «YDB» event, which occurred circa 10,770 BC, is thought to have been caused by the impacts or air - bursts of several comets, resulting in massive shockwaves and firestorms sweeping across continents, initiating a 1200 year - long epoch of terminal environmental change and catastrophic faunal extinction, effectively wiping all but traces of early civilizations from the historical record.This book explores the forbidden and deeply profound secrets of a magnificent lost civilization, revealing knowledge long concealed in myth and legend.

The seven themed islands at the park are Marvel Super Hero Island, Toon Lagoon, Skull Island, Jurassic Park, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Hogsmeade), The Lost Continent and Seuss Landing.

Meet Me in Atlantis: Across Three Continents in Search of the Legendary Sunken City finds author Mark Adams in search of the fabled lost city.

are running a Lost Continent tour throughout 2018 that begins at the medieval capital of Antananarivo in the highlands.

Guests can be forgiven for losing track of which era, or even continent, they are experiencing at the lodge since nowhere else on earth can you wake up among all the trappings of an elegant baroque chateau — brocade sofas, gilt mirrors, beaded chandeliers and panelled walls — and be instantly transported into one of the most famous African landscapes with just one glance out the window of the lodge.

Sword Art Online: Lost Song includes a completely original story which primarily involves the exploration of «Svart Alfheim», a new area of ALfheim Online comprised of a series of floating continents close to the World Tree.

Take control over Gully and her unlikely band of adventurers and guide them through the Lost Continent, a world full of hidden dungeons, rare bosses and tons of loot.

It arguably constitute the game's greatest strength — getting players lost in its huge open - world, and it's clear the developers spent a lot of time building this alien world into distinct continents; Primordia is full of lush grassy plains similar to those seen in

The third entry in the Witcher series takes protagonist Geralt of Rivera throughout the world of The Continent as he searches for his lost love and his adopted daughter.