Sentences with phrase «as a continent»

In a country as big as a continent with so much cultural diversity, the one thing that remains constantly amazing for me is the food.

Other projections are better for mapping small regions such as continents and countries.

As the continents shifted to a more modern configuration, so too did ocean circulation.

Here the land is sinking as the continent adjusts to the removal of massive ice sheets, but it appears the sea is rising.

Not as continents or oceans, but an entire entity.

African mythology is as vast and diverse as the continent itself.

If one falls from a palm tree growing near the ocean, it can float and be carried as far as another continent!

An inverse type of flow develops in the summer as the continents heat more rapidly than their adjacent oceanic areas.

Rosling says he's tired of the portrayal of Africa as a continent of incompetence, superstition, and rampant corruption.

The exhibition Making Africa at Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein has its focus on Africa as a continent of contemporary design.

The result is that many Americans now view Europe as a continent of free - riders, enjoying the benefits of American power while demanding that we limit it.

The first is an accumulation of algae and other microorganisms in shallow seas, like those that periodically formed as the continents drifted apart and moved together again over hundreds of millions of years.

Each titan essentially serves as a continent with its own regions, wildlife, culture, etc and exploring all this in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is no simple fare.

Major sinks, likewise: for example, as continents collided, mountain - ranges were formed, making phenomenal amounts of rock debris available to weathering - agents, of which carbon dioxide dissolved in rainwater is one of the most important.

The premise of this show, while not particularly new or original, was nevertheless a sign that US - style multiculturalism has begun to make headway in Europe, where cultural difference is a major topic of discussion as the continent moves toward economic and political unification.

In A Sunburnt Country is set Down Under — a place that doubles as a continent with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet.

A further ten new exhibitors will attend the show in the Africa region highlighting the continued development of African tourism, especially as the continent emerges from last year's Arab Spring.

The Sinaloa cartel in particular is believed to have sought out a larger share of the European market, trying to replace Colombian groups as the continent's main provider.

Insolvent homeowners in Europe face a lifetime of literal debt peonage to make the banks (even foreign banks, which dominate Central Europe's post-Soviet economies) whole on their bad debts as the continent's real estate prices are plunging even more steeply than those in the United States — some 70 percent in Iceland and Latvia.

Poland was seen as the continent's greatest hope for shale gas, and the Polish government went out of its way to court major companies.

And on the other, his is a story of what it meant to be Jewish as the continent stumbled out of the first world war, then marched into the second.

As the continent copes with economic malady, activists such as Cohn - Bendit and Gaudot are prescribing a stronger EU — one that is a radical departure from the nation - state psychology of «compete and conquer».

«And the earlier we work on our continental security and put our interest above external interest, no matter the consequences, the sooner we realize the benefits as a continent.

As President, I have had the opportunity to participate in many events that have sought to celebrate Africa's emergence as a continent of prosperity rather than the previous negative connotation of the «Dark Continent».

Tillerson is in Africa as part of President Donald Trump's fence mending efforts after he made comments believed to have insulted Africa as a continent last year.

As a torchbearer of Africa's Political emancipation, the Ghana Beyond Aid vision resonates within Ghana and catching up with other African countries as the only sustainable means of reaching our goals of economic emancipation as a continent by using internal resources to create the needed infrastructural development and jobs opportunity for the teeming unemployed graduate youth.

As a continent mostly termed as a «developing one», Africa has fostered sustainability and development through...

Two of the three surviving lineages that subsequently radiated widely came out of Africa, which remained intact as the continents shifted around over the ensuing eons, with the breakup of Pangea and then Gondwana to form the continents we see today.

Scientists refer to this sunken expanse as the continent's weak underbelly.

If environmental changes as substantial as continent - wide glaciations do not force evolutionary change, then what does?

Among other things, it will allow scientists to measure how much of the carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere came from burning fossil fuels, and to estimate fossil fuel emissions in an area as small as a city or as large as a continent.

Some of Australia's sensitivity to climate change stems from its evolution as a continent.

The hot spot started somewhere in Missouri, migrated toward the coast as the continent shifted and then moved up the East Coast and off Maine in the present day.

Potential explanations have included rising levels of atmospheric oxygen because of photosynthesis, allowing for the development of more complex animals; the rise in carnivorous species and new predatory tactics, such as the flat and segmented, armor - crushing creatures known as anomalocaridids; and the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia, which may have created new ecological niches and isolated populations as the continents drifted apart.

The beetle, endemic to Africa, is the most devastating pest of coffee worldwide, and is becoming more prevalent as the continent's temperatures rise.

Several decades ago, scientists hypothesized that cichlids dispersed by going along for the ride as the continents spread.

The United States has strong diplomatic interests in Antarctica, in particular promoting its status as a continent reserved for peace and science in accordance with the provisions of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959.

With rapid population growth and climate change, inland valleys are increasingly being considered as the continent's future food basket since they are generally more fertile than uplands and have higher water availability.

Once the Earth's crust commences its destructive shift, Jackson races back to California to rescue his family (including Amanda Peet) as the continents crumble, burst, and submerge during the planet's ferocious final act.

«The reason that East Asia looked more diverse than elsewhere was not because East Asia as a continent had more diverse dogs than elsewhere but because non breed street and village dogs are more diverse than breed dogs.»

Well, no surprise here: Zurich, Oslo, Venice, Stockholm and Helsinki are all ranked as the continent's most expensive cities.

Our guided European trips are as varied as the continent itself, from a hiking adventure in the Scottish Highlands to an action - packed family sojourn in the Swiss Alps, from a photography workshop in Paris to a voyage by tall ship along the coasts of Greece and Turkey.

The foremost city of the Inca Empire is now the undisputed archaeological capital of the Americas, as well as the continent's oldest continuously inhabited city.

The lodge has also been awarded as the continent winner of the World Luxury Hotel Awards 2016 within the Luxury Bush Lodge category as well as the Provincial winner for the Lilizela Tourism Awards 2016 Best Lodge in Limpopo awards.

The museum's mission is to reposition Africa as an authority on its own 54 countries and global issues beyond — as a continent no longer plundered by outsiders and force - fed an exogenous narrative, but that is, increasingly, telling its own story.