Sentences with phrase «half of the continent»

They have they energy, creativity and passion to create a country that sets an example for the rest of the continent and capitalizes on the opportunities that are waiting to be unleashed.

A great many of the continent's banks have similarly been zombified, existing only at the pleasure of their respective national governments.

The southern half of the continent is better known for warm but economically dysfunctional cities that are perfect for beach vacations but not for founding businesses.

Meanwhile, Hong Kong's Cheng Yu - tung has spent $ 570 million on five luxe properties — part of what some industry experts hypothesize will become a trend among wealthy Asians in expectation of the continent's middle class embracing global travel.

There are many ironies: Germany, which so frightened Europe for nearly a century, as it had in late Roman times, is now being beseeched virtually to take economic suzerainty over chunks of the continent where the physical German occupiers in bygone days were violently unwelcome.

It is hoped that it will encourage Africa's trade to diversify away from its traditional commodity exports outside of the continent, the volatile prices of which have hurt the economies of many countries.

Mine took me to all seven continents — and running a half marathon on each of the continents gives you a different perspective.

The issue goes beyond Germany, Europe's largest economy and home to some of the continent's biggest carmakers.

That could spell trouble for European carmakers given that several of the continent's most popular brands have a major manufacturing footprint in the U.S.

He'd best prepare for a frightful year: Germany will likely continue its gradualist approach to combating the sovereign debt crisis — even if it means taking the rest of the continent to the brink and beyond.

It is a natural byproduct of the Continent's geography, which produced pockets of communities that for centuries were isolated from one another.

Ontario is North America's biggest market for ICF homes, and Canada is home to many of the continent's most important manufacturers of ICF products.

Lloyds, which declined to comment, is the only major British retail lender without a subsidiary in another EU country and it would be the first major lender to commit to Berlin as a hub to access the rest of the continent after Britain quits the EU.

Uber's local representatives there have repeatedly insisted that, despite SoftBank's favored strategy, the company isn't pulling out of that continent.

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.

The «contagion risk» from the UK to the rest of the continent is still possible too.

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.

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.

The question now is whether the E.C.B.'s action merely delayed the inevitable reckoning for the euro zone's weakest members or whether falling interest rates and improved growth will become entrenched, bringing the critical phase of the Continent's debt crisis to a close.

The shutdown affected diverse countries from all over the continent: whether they had small populations like Gabon or big ones like Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo; whether in the south of the continent like Zimbabwe, in the north in Algeria, across the east in Burundi and Uganda, and in the west like the shutdown preceding the elections in The Gambia.

To others, meanwhile, the new president was a beacon of hope and inspiration in keeping with the rhetoric of the continent's populist leaders.

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.

To the surprise of most investors around the globe, yesterday the U.K. voted 52 % to 48 % in favor of leaving the European Union (EU), after more than four decades, in a stunning rejection of the continent's post-war political and economic order.

For the Europeans» part, Macron gave perhaps the fullest articulation of the divergence of the continent's priorities and Trump's in his congressional address on Wednesday.

They have happened in countries large and small, Muslim and Christian, and in every corner of the continent.

The biggest winners from America's railway boom were small firms and farmers who benefited from the opening up of the continent.

CEO Arne Sorenson heads Marriott's Global Diversity and Inclusion Council, which is comprised of all continent presidents as well as other company leaders who also sit on the Committee for Excellence.

We are partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and we share responsibility for the defense of the continent through the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

All of that is making it easier to invest in and develop the resource base of the continent.»

Betting is a flourishing industry in Asia particularly in the Southeast region of the continent.

I remember asking Mr. Mack, my geography teacher, if you could see the names of continents from outer space.

Of course there may be some selection bias there as the people I meet from the rest of the continent are the ones cool enough to take vacations or immigrate.

Although Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producer, it is also one of the continent's largest importer of refined petroleum products.

I subsequently learned the shared cross-border DNA runs deeper than Prime Rib; with some of the continent's breeziest open - range landscapes, both Alberta and Texas proved early wind - power leaders.

Vendors can sell their wares to a worldwide audience and be paid in Bitcoin, which, despite its recent volatility, is far more stable than many of the continent's sovereign fiat currencies.

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.

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

The quid pro quo is that developed nations are to transfer hundreds of billions to the poor countries, in essence, a bribe to keep from fully exploiting the bounteous resources of the continent.

Few in the world are more aware of the need for peace than the residents of this continent where violence is woven into the fabric of daily life in several countries.

For me, they have become a very concrete symbol of what is happening in Latin America; I am referring to the environmental deterioration of the continent and in particular of El Salvador.

One of the secrets of the swift access the new theology has found into the life of the Continent is that it takes its beginning from the scene in the local church rather than in the university library.

Africans seemed knowledgeable and concerned about the rapid disappearance of their continent's animals, but less aware of the dangers of environmental abuse.

We were told that this is not unusual in Zambia or in other parts of the continent.

In Africa many agree that it is important that the nations of that continent become more nearly self - sufficient in food production so that they are less dependent on the transnational food conglomerates.

If we accept this premise, the beginning of the modern era marked a watershed, a radical change, for the two Europes in both the essence of the continent and its geographic outlines.

One reason Ethiopians were involved in high - profile tragedies at opposite ends of the continent: Their nation is the second-most populous in Africa as well as the second - poorest in the world (87 percent of Ethiopia's 94 million people are impoverished).

I think the majority of the continent likely heard my exhale of relief when that was over.

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.

The farthest southern extension of Muslim rule came under the Tughluqs, who held power from 720 to 815 (A.D. 1320 - 412) and pressed their invasion almost to the southern tip of the continent.

Certainly Palestine was a crossroads of the continents, and therefore of commerce in both physical goods and in ideas.