Sentences with phrase «middle of the continent»

Word had spread throughout Europe that there was land — empty land, free land — in the middle of the continent to the west.

Alice Springs is in the middle of the continent as is still classified as rural so it an ideal site to collect such info.

The smoke from the fires started by nuclear weapons would block out so much sunlight that temperatures in the middle of continents would plunge to sub-freezing levels, even in the summer, and these effects would last for years.

The Marbled Godwit is an impressively large, strikingly long - billed, mainly cinnamon — brown inhabitant of open districts in the middle of the continent, favoring wet habitats.

In many places, this heat comes much closer to the surface in the middle of the continents, such as under Yellowstone.

If we're looking at a flat, large region in the middle of a continent, we may have better luck than if we're looking at a coastal region with complex topography.)

Predicting weather in the middle of a continent is Iikely to be much easier than on an island in the Atlantic!

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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.

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.

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.

The mass movement of people from the war - torn Middle East into Europe and the greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War has become the single-most dominant political issue across the continent.

The continent is home to a growing group of mega-rich, and an even bigger middle class, who are hungry for everything luxurious.

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.

While here, this divine visitor exhibits no knowledge of ANYTHING outside of the Greco - Roman Middle East, including the other continents, 99 % of the human race, and the aforementioned galaxies.

Through interaction with the mid east during those long years of the Crusade's, traders bought back with them the knowledge that eventually took the continent of Europe out of the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance era.

While here, this divine visitor exhibits no knowledge of ANYTHING outside of Iron Age Middle East, including the other continents, 99 % of the human race, and the aforementioned galaxies.

While here, this divine visitor exhibits no knowledge of ANYTHING outside of the Iron Age Middle East, including the other continents, 99 % of the human race, and the aforementioned galaxies.

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.

The European migration crisis of 2015 has created a huge political challenge for the states that have to respond to the mass migration of people from the Middle East and elsewhere across the continent.

Nowadays not only the diplomatic relations between western democracies and dictators of the middle east and Asian continents are good, but there is an incredible amount of trade for goods in China for example, and it does seem not bother anyone in western democracies to trade with these countries, and thus directly finance the torture of innocents and even expansion of the communist ideology in China.

The focus on Abu Dhabi is part of the CIOB's strategic plan which will allow the Institute to play a major role in supporting industry, professionalism and key development projects in the Middle East as well as creating a link with the Indian Sub Continent, another key strategic area of interest for the Institute.

After the U.S. pullout from the Iran deal, the influential weekly Der Spiegel called on Germany to become part of the «resistance against America» and pictured Trump on its cover as a yellow - haired middle finger to the continent.

African writers and artists have set out to rewrite Western views of the continent, which is experiencing steady economic growth, a rising middle class, and demands new perspectives.

«There aren't supposed to be mountains in the middle of stable continents.»

In the Middle Land of speed, we can detect objects moving at a walking or running pace, but the glacially slow movement of continents (and glaciers) and the mind - bogglingly fast speed of light are imperceptible.

Cultivated part of hell Toward the middle of the year the Beagle left behind the South American continent and set sail for the Galápagos islands, where the crew came upon a cheerless scenario: «A jagged field of [irregular or wavelike layers of] black, basaltic lava pockmarked with huge fissures, and covered everywhere with stunted, sun - burnt brushwood,» Darwin complained in his report.

«Being in the middle of the ocean, I saw it as an opportunity to get some connections at the continent.»

One climate model at Princeton University's Geo physical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory predicts that central India will have doubled precipitation, while the centers of continents at middle latitudes — the midwestern United States, for example — will actually have much drier summers than they have now (this summer's drought could, in other words, be a foretaste).

For just a couple of months around the middle of Antarctic summer, an air current tidily circles the South Pole, ensuring that any experiment bobbing along in that vortex will tend to stay above the continent.

The Middle Awash region of Ethiopia lies to the north, where the African continent dead - ends into the Red Sea.

He left the Rift Valley in Ethiopia in January 2013, and he'll walk 21,000 miles before he's done — across the Middle East and Asia, and then down the entirety of the American continent.

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Specifically designed to meet the needs of students in the middle grades (ages 10 - 14), it serves more than 40,000 students per year in the United States, across the African continent, and around the world.

Generally, flights coming from African continent, Asia and sub regions, the Middle East and islands of the Indian Ocean, and flights coming from any other country where mosquito borne diseases are prevalent.

The middle berth on the rear bench is narrower than the others and does have restricted legroom as a result of a transmission tunnel (4MOTION all - wheel - drive versions are offered on the continent but are not confirmed to the UK).

But the modifiable center console can be customized to suit any job whether it's on the construction site or in the middle of a long - haul continent crossing.

We crossed the continent during the «summer» season (November through the middle to end of February), so we experienced twenty - four hours of daylight and temperatures that dipped to -35 degrees Fahrenheit -LRB--37 degrees Celsius), and -70 degrees Fahrenheit -LRB--57 degrees Celsius) with windchill.

At its height the Ottoman Empire, which had its capital in Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), spanned three continents, controlling much of Southeastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and was at the center of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for about 600 years.

Instead of an old country there is a continent made up of lands that were divvied up and named by European and Middle Eastern conquerors.

If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry?

This sudden and unexpected outage had spanned over the better part of 3 continents; Europe, Middle East, Africa and even parts of Asia.

He has judged in all continents of the world - Asia, Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia.

Sand boas range through the northeastern quadrant of the African continent and into the Middle East.

«Bringing a brand into a new market is always exciting, but in particular in Africa where we are planning on doubling the number of our properties on the continent over the next three years, adding four further properties to our existing four hotels,» said Peter Fulton, group president for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Southwest Asia, Hyatt.

By the middle of 2016, OrcaTrip had traveled over 19,000 miles, visiting three continents and six countries.

Certainly UK, Europe, the continent of Africa, India, and the Middle East and Far East.

Uncharted 3 is an epic, globe trotting tale, taking place over a number of continents from London to the Middle East.

She lives during in the Middle Ages, and resides in her Villa south of Dorino and Denadoro Mountains on the Zenan continent.

He is, of course, a white middle - aged man, but he's also one working hard to champion (and financially support) African artists, and practitioners based outside Africa whose roots lie in the continent.

In view of all this, the IPCC AR4 Chapter 9 Executive Summary states that: «It is likely (66 percent probability) that there has been a substantial anthropogenic contribution to surface temperature increases in every continent except Antarctica since the middle of the 20th century.»