Sentences with phrase «not as continents»

Not as continents or oceans, but an entire entity.

Not exact matches

We're not through mining Mary Meeker's Internet Trends Report — all 197 slides of it — for useful nuggets of wisdom (such as the rise of the millennial workforce in offices across the continent).

And not only is Britain thought to have generous reserves of gas trapped in underground shale formations, it is one of the few countries remaining in Europe not have banned fracking, as many of their neighbors on the Continent already have done, including France and Germany.

BitPesa not only has its eyes on expanding across the African continent, but into Europe and the Middle East as well.

As for Europe, there has not been a lack of fresh crises to propel the continent's sovereign debt crisis forward.

There was a shared sentiment that Alberta must be careful not to try to «boil the ocean» but instead focus on a few important levers: best - in - continent carbon pricing with a trigger mechanism linked to oil prices, energy efficiency measures and infrastructure were identified as good areas to focus on.

Part of its being «without form and void» was that the continents (or continent, as it may have originally been one land mass) had not been formed (raised up above water level) yet.

She said: «My twenty - nine - year - old daughter's choice to die gently rather than suffer physical and mental degradation and intense pain does not deserve to be labelled as reprehensible by strangers a continent away who do not know her or the particulars of her situation.

fred, They were atheists as far as your god is concerned, but I think the point was why couldn't an omniscient and omnipotent god have made itself known on all continents before the European invasion of the New Worlds?

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

I do not mean that values long associated with the Christian tradition, such as love and peace, will disappear from the continent.

The «Alliance for Progress», put forward by the Kennedy Administration to help underdeveloped countries, brought as a result not so much the development of those countries as increased foreign trade for the USA and its greater interference in the continent.

Consequently, mission as God's mission anticipates that mission can not be claimed by any one particular church or region, and therefore, mission should be carried out in and to all the six continents.

Nobody disbelieves that the Vikings couldn't have learned as much about the continent as the later explorers if they had managed to stay longer, right?

-- As private individuals, we are responsible for seeking our interest in harmony with, and not at the expense of, the interest and well - being of others; responsible for condemning and averting all forms of killing and violence; and responsible for respecting the right to life and development of all people and all living things on Earth, next door to us the same as on distant continentAs private individuals, we are responsible for seeking our interest in harmony with, and not at the expense of, the interest and well - being of others; responsible for condemning and averting all forms of killing and violence; and responsible for respecting the right to life and development of all people and all living things on Earth, next door to us the same as on distant continentas on distant continents.

As with other new missionaries, my goal in 1954 was to bring Christ to Africa, a continent not dark but dusky enough in my view to need the light that shone more brightly in my American home.

Second: The transplantation of old - world traits to this continent has not been without effect upon its religious life, particularly in so far as some of the largest American denominations are the direct offspring of European Protestant groups.

We read of Indonesian school girls targeted and beheaded simply because they were Christians; of Nigerian Christian men forced to chose between conversion to Islam or death, and of their wives and children forced to chose between conversion or perpetual slavery; of Pakistani Christians being burned alive in their homes; of Coptic Christians in Egypt and Chaldean Catholics in Iraq being fire - bombed, maimed and killed» and when not killed, hounded into exile; of «religious apartheid» and executions in Iran; and of unspeakable atrocities against Christians in the Sudan, the «scene of suffering as abhorrent as anywhere on any continent.»

actually many pagans survived and went underground and also in places where the reaches of the catholic church did not get For example a whole other half Europe two whole continents on the other side of the ocean etc Paganism was driven into near extinction by it's brother religion that came from the same roots but it was not at all eradicated The irony find is Christians were persecuted by the Roman empire before the rule of Constantine and then during the burning times persecuted witches and pagans (aswell as non-pagans for corrupted reasons) An oximoron and hypocritical religion

«Whether there will be room for me next year I can not tell,» Royce admitted in January of 1883, but «I do not want to go back to California, and took this place so as to get in the edge of a wedge somewhere on this side of the Continent.»

This is happening at this very moment in the continents of Asia and Africa, for example, and insofar as men are being set free from ignorance, superstition and fear we can not but be glad.

As for all those African vocations, well, «the growing number of priests is a result not only of missionary power but also a result of the fact that the priesthood is one of the few possibilities for social security on the dark continent.»

For, was the surface of the earth even and level, and the middle parts of its islands and continents not mountainous and high as now it is, it is most certain there could be no descent for the rivers, no conveyance for the waters; but, instead of gliding along those gentle declivities which the higher lands now afford them quite down to the sea, they would stagnate and perhaps stink, and also drown large tracts of land.

At the dawn of England's colonial thrust into the American continent, the prevailing view did not distinguish between the ends of State and Church — the two being conceived indeed as «personally one Society, which society... [is] termed a Commonwealth as it liveth under whatsoever form of secular law and regiment, a Church as it hath the spiritual law of Jesus Christ.

I personally love having frozen produce as an option when I don't want to succumb to fruit flown in all the way from another continent, I can't find it fresh altogether, or frankly I'm just worried we won't eat everything before it spoils!

For flour, I have heard good things about Dove's Gluten Free Plain White Flour, but I've never tried it myself, as it's not available on my continent.

«Rather than a challenge, Tetra Pak sees opportunity in the American continent, as well as the Middle East and Asia, to provide packaging for existing small to medium sized customers who are not yet ready to invest in new lines,» he said.

Corn, cassava, sorghum and rice are eaten as staples across the continent, and are more often than not, fermented.

As it is expected, his performances has not gone unnoticed and big teams around the continent have been showing the interest to prize him away from Arsenal; notably Barcelona, which happens to be his home town club.

I will also dare to say that Sanchez was a great economical buy as well, not only because his price was very reasonable, but also because buying him promotes Arsenal in South America, a continent i don't really think the club has a very notable fan base in.

It's also a game that became dangerous for me when it introduced online rankings, as I could not stop playing once I noticed where I ranked in North America on time trial courses from the Wii edition — it was that experience with the time trials mode from my youth all over again, except instead of just besting myself and my dad and a couple of friends, it was a large percentage of a continent that I'm embarrassed to even quote here as it will give away just how time I spent with the game.

Some of us fans feel it is wrong for any owner to live on a different continent, as Kroenke does but Abramovitch does not.

Yes — I don't really understand AFCON — not only is it held at least twice as often as other big international sporting events, and sometimes more, if they decide they want to change the schedule, to not interfere with something else (not the players club obligations, who pay their wages, perish the thought), but it is always held at the peak of the league season, as they say it maybe raining in summer, which I also don't get, as it rains here all the time — I'm sure there are parts of Africa which have reasonable weather during the summer — it's a big continent — South Africa must be fairly clement at that time.

I do not know whether there is a problem because the English FA have been stronger critics of UEFA and FIFA corruption or whether it is just as simple as the fact that football is played in a more robust way in England than on the continent, but neither of these reasons is an excuse for the fact that Arsenal and the likes of Man City keep finding ourselves on the wrong end of decisions.

You simply couldn't script this whole mess, its like an Ealing comedy of a bygone age, where a bureaucratic nightmare of such proportions should surely only exist in fiction unfortunately the African continent has to contend with as a nightmare of a reality.

It is not as though he has been playing much for us these days and at 33 - years old his career might last a bit longer on the continent than it would in the rough and ready EPL.

Speaking about his relative, Iwobi said that Okocha is not only a big figure in Nigeria, but is well - known for his sporting success across the whole continent of Africa, so it's not surprising that the midfielder describes him as his «idol» and hopes to follow in his uncle's footsteps.

It was as if Milan didn't care who won the league, as long as they could finish within the Champions League spots and thus launch another bid for the glories of the continent.

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.

Even a player as demonstrably great as Ryan Giggs seemed diminished by association with Wales — when he could be bothered turning up — traipsing across the continent looking permanently sad and confused, a shy computer programmer obliged to go on a Magaluf stag weekend with a rowdy group of men he doesn't know.

Unfortunately, as we speak, countries like Burundi and Rwanda are currently undergoing very dangerous political endeavors of third term projects tinkering with their Constitutions, these negative exemplars in our continent graphically underscores the significance of the price of the peace we are enjoying here consequent upon the successful 2015 elections even though not perfect.

Regarding our involment in election management from 2011 up till the generals election of 2015, l would say that, despite the apolcalytic projections either about the elections or about the country going under on account of some devisive issues, the successful transition of Nigeria from same - party democratic consolidation to opposition party democratic consolidation, which is not very common, especially in our continent, is indicative of progress and we should congratulate ourselves as a people and a country.

As these two forces interact, I don't think it'd be that surprising to see France pivot from backing up Germany to balancing against the strongest power on the continent, and challenging the Germans on their vision for the future of the European economy.

«You can not dismiss entire countries and continents as shitholes... I'm sorry, but there's no other word one can use but racist,» Colville said.

It has become a cliché to note that when English people go to Spain or France they talk about «going to Europe» as if they are not part of the continent, but it also reveals an important truth.

The Africa region, and West Africa sub-region specifically, is not well - connected enough for the various economies to realise the benefits of aviation as a result of subtle protectionism policies and non-adherence to the Yamoussoukro Decision of 1999 that sought to promote open skies in the continent.

Unfortunately, such characterizes the leadership's sphere, not just in Nigeria but Africa as a continent.

By standing shoulder to shoulder with our European partners we have the clout to defend not just our own interests, but the interests of our continent as a whole.

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.