Sentences with phrase «by the continent of»

The first class monarch described the ex minister as one of the greatest human assets owned by the Continent of Africa in the recent times.

Antarctic ice shelves are in the ocean but are supported by the continent of Antarctica — melting these ice sheets will increase sea level.

Not exact matches

The number of people using the online room rental service on the continent rose by 143 percent to about 765,000 guests in 2016 from the year before, said Nicola D'Elia, the firm's Africa and Middle East chief.

Every time I visit the continent, I am impressed by what daring African businessmen and women are accomplishing in the face of tough social and economic challenges.

At the height ofEurope's migration crisis in 2015, hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants — most from the Middle East and Africa — arrived at the continent by land and sea.

Macron has said he hopes to pool liability for various kinds of debt: a completed banking union would ensure bailout costs for individual financial institutions would be distributed across the continent rather than borne by individual countries, and the so - called Eurobonds would allow national governments to borrow money against a joint continental credit rating.

One glance at social media and the multitude of photos of friends posing in woollen beanies by the Great Wall or zip - lining through a steamy jungle, will confirm that a jaunt across continents has become commonplace.

Privately owned luxury line, Silversea, just announced an EPIC Legends of Cruising World Cruise that will truly satisfy your wanderlust by taking you to all seven continents.

With newspapers and television dominated by pictures and reports of hundreds of migrants who have either died or been turned away by the richest continent in the world, the situation has reached a breaking point for Europe's leaders.

President Donald Trump's reported labelling of Haiti and the entire continent of Africa as «shithole countries» has prompted a major backlash on Yelp, where reviewers have been taking revenge by using the term to describe Trump hotels.

The draft bill is one of a number of initiatives sweeping across a continent without a unified strategy for tackling the use of cyberspace by terrorists and money - launderers.

The program works by exploiting «clouds,» which are massive data centers across continents that are connected by thousands of miles of fiber - optic cable that are used by the Silicon Valley giants to function with minimal data loss and system slowdowns.

But it is also indicative of the constraints imposed by geography; «think about all of the diverse, amazing economies and people and businesspeople across the 54 countries across the African continent and how they are routinely excluded in many ways from participating in global markets,» she said.

After all is said and done hundreds of millions of people will be forced to retreat inland leaving behind the continent's largest and most prosperous cities to be buried by the ocean

He estimates this continent's market for mobile workforce solutions provided by CI and a handful of other companies is about 25 % penetrated; only one in 10 mobile workers are equipped with the technology.

From liberal Scandinavia to the southern reaches of the continent in Greece and Italy, far - right parties by their own standards are showing sizeable growth in multiple nations.

With an image of the Bastille being stormed by a rabble of freelance writers, part - time cooks and itinerant Caribbean fruit pickers in mind, perhaps it's relevant to consider the current situation in Europe, where generations of abundant labour regulation have robbed much of the Continent of employment flexibility — sorry, precarious work.

Only emergency support from the ECB is keeping the banks afloat and saving Greece from a chaotic euro exit that would inflict more pain on its people and gravely damage the currency, the strongest symbol of the EU's drive for an «ever closer union» on a continent once ravaged by two world wars.

Europe's technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European companies.

He was testifying on behalf of the Alberta - based Parkland Institute about concerns about the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a 2005 accord by the U.S., Canada and Mexico to streamline economic and security rules across the continent.

Cannabis sales in North America are growing faster than any fairy tale beanstalk, and with full legalization poised for July of this year in Canada, the continent is by far the most fertile ground in the world for commercial cannabis abundance.

Good data on the exact size of the middle class are hard to come by, but it remains small across most parts of the continent.

Underpinning all of Fidelity's investment efforts is a commitment to research, made possible by over 400 research professionals based in seven offices on three continents worldwide2.

When breaking down funding figures by continent, Asia dominated in 2015, raising more than both Europe and North America combined thanks to 5 mega-rounds of $ 100M +, including 3 to Ele.me which ended up raising a cumulative $ 2.23 B in 2015, as well as the previously mentioned Womai and Grofers Series C rounds.

By: Sascha Solomons 4th November 2016 Africa's mining and quarrying activities continue to be characterised by export - oriented activities and, as a result, the mining sector of this mineral - rich continent is driven primarily by the commodities appetite of the world's largest economieBy: Sascha Solomons 4th November 2016 Africa's mining and quarrying activities continue to be characterised by export - oriented activities and, as a result, the mining sector of this mineral - rich continent is driven primarily by the commodities appetite of the world's largest economieby export - oriented activities and, as a result, the mining sector of this mineral - rich continent is driven primarily by the commodities appetite of the world's largest economieby the commodities appetite of the world's largest economies.

«If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.

Africa Rising She notes that Africa is currently a smaller player in the iron - ore industry, but with opportunities, such as Rio Tinto's Simandou iron - ore project, in Guinea, the Faleme iron - ore mine owned by the government of Senegal, and JSE - listed company Tawana Resources» Mofe Creek iron - ore project, in Liberia, the continent's drive to create an impact on the iron - ore industry will be realised in the future.

In late 2002 and early 2003, the global organization — recently spun off from Bass Group — faced bloated overhead costs in the competitive hotel industry, experienced a decline in business and vacation travel because of the worldwide economic downturn and the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), underwent a brand name change (from Six Continents), and battled a hostile takeover attempt by British entrepreneur Hugh Osmond.

The revelations around Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, SCL Elections which boasts of «handling» 100 election campaigns in more than 30 countries across five continents — principally by manipulating Facebook data — are shocking, and we're not going to tolerate such data manipulation any longer.

The goal of the Summit is to advance cooperation by the leaders of the federated states of the world's most dynamic continent, which generates a combined GDP of nearly $ 21 trillion per annum with a population of 486 million.

The efforts by 4G Capital, WISeKey, and Bitland are just further recent developments that will provide a better way of life for the African population and create opportunities for growth within the continent through the use of blockchain technology.

Italy's second - largest bank by assets, Intesa Sanpaolo ISP.MI +0.86 % SpA, said that it has fully repaid a $ 36 billion ($ 49 billion) loan it took from the European Central Bank during the heat of the Continent's financial crisis.

We will also grow our economy and improve the quality of our services, by privatizing some government services, improving the business environment, attracting the finest talent and the best investments globally, and leveraging our unique strategic location in connecting three continents.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

Evolution, the age of the earth, the nature of the universe itself, etc., has been investigated and tested and findings challenged, refined, and verified in thousands of different ways by thousands of people over centuries and across continents.

He angered native Latin Americans by claiming that the colonisation of their continent had not involved «the imposition of a foreign culture».

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.

It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as less than human, stoning people to death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.

We had no hope of returning to the European Continent by our own efforts.

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.

The theology of the fourth church is, of course, being formulated by the liberation theologians of the southern continent — José Míguez Bonino, Juan Segundo.

In the tenth century, when the original European forests began to be converted to farmland and pasturage, ninety percent of the entire continent was covered by trees; today only twenty percent of these trees remain (Myers 1979, 121).

One finds a rich continent made poor by long - standing patterns of exploitation.

Because mankind addresses him thus (Sebastos) in accordance with their estimation of his honour, they revere him with temples and sacrifices over islands and continents, organised by cities and provinces, matching the greatness of his virtue and repaying his benefactions towards them.

As a whole, the lands facing the Mediterranean came to form a true continent by virtue of their cultural ties, trade routes, and common political system.

While the majority of countries of Northern Europe elected governments of the right applying various versions of the neo-liberal program, in the south of the continent - it means in countries which were governed by Franco, Salazar, De Gaulle, the Greek colonels - arrived for the first time to power governments of the left.

Defenders of philosophical theology and of humanistic Christologies had been put on the defensive by the new currents from the European continent.

In the Conference on Church and Society (Geneva, 1966), considered «the first genuinely «world» conference on social issues» because of equal representation by all the continents, there were strong demands for the churches to take a more active role in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936).

So moncada which of the 66 fairy tales written by 40 authors in three different languages, on three different continents, over approx 1000 years is your favorite?

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.