Sentences with phrase «of the continent as»

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.

Beyond that, scientists also worry what the collapse would mean for the rest of the continent as warming continues.

Consequently, the model also provides interesting insight on the evolution of continents as far back as the Jurassic, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth on Pangaea, the only continent at the time.

The third entry in the Witcher series takes protagonist Geralt of Rivera throughout the world of The Continent as he searches for his lost love and his adopted daughter.

It is pretty cool to see the overworld grow from a tiny piece of land, to a small cluster of islands, to a huge series of continents as large as any of the previous games.

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 most recent NASA data I could find on the Antarctic 1981 - 2007 in an article on the Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegration looks much worse: it shows most of the continent as warming.

It is easier to think of the continent as a sponge floating in water.

All true, but if the Byrd trick (separating the two stations in the statistical analysis) results in an increase of warming for West Antarctica from 0.1 / decade to 0.16 / decade as you point out above, then Byrd is also a deciding factor w.r.t. the significance of warming of the continent as a whole.

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As the operator of three airlines that fly over every continent, the Virgin Group is a major consumer of fossil fuels.

The sprouting of these islands of legality, observers predict, will spur other states to open up their cannabis markets lest they lose out on revenue and tourism, much as the casino gambling pioneered in Las Vegas became ubiquitous across the continent.

In that context, America's belated push to stop the trade free - loaders looks like a convenient pretext to argue that only a united Europe — around France and Germany, of course — can protect the continent's vital economic interests from what Paris and Berlin see as American protectionism and China's predatory trade practices.

I visit Africa often, and it is apparent that a «yes, we can» attitude is spreading across the continent, as awareness of its business and investment opportunities reaches around the globe.

From its beginning in 1967 as a producer of bed blankets, the company has grown to sell its products on three continents via seven market segments covering a broad range of client industries.

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.

«Since Sir John A. Macdonald laid a railway across a continent, infrastructure has been both an immediate response to an urgent need and a hopeful act of nation building,» Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said, casting deficit spending as a proud part of Canada's heritage.

As a White House appointed PAGE Ambassador, she has traveled to five continents to share her story and empower the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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).

It inspired me to explore opportunities abroad again, ultimately working on hotel projects on several different continents, an experience that brought me to my current position as co-founder of Proper Hospitality, a high - end lifestyle hotel company.

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 continent is far from Eurasia, which — as we've written about previously — is where many of the worst wars have been waged.

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.

What began as a «throwaway» post on Reddit grew into a bullhorn of a message sounded from seven continents — from 610 cities and a frozen research station at the bottom of the world.

«This highlights the need for a Brexit which enables London to maintain its place at the heart of the single market, as the continent's financial capital,» he said.

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.

The rise of anti-Europe parties has been mirrored across the continent, such as the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) and Alternative for Germany (AfD).

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.

Known as «the Asian Warren Buffett,» Li is the richest man on the continent, and one of the most powerful.

The attacks on Paris could therefore further cement their lead in many countries throughout the continent, as fears grow of further attacks and of the possibility that terrorists could hide among the Syrian refugee population.

For 20 years, the International Economic Forum of the Americas has served as a unique platform for galvanizing public and private opinions and expertise on issues topical to the continent.

BERLIN — Despite bitter opposition in many quarters to the austerity - first policies Germany has imposed on Europe's poorer nations, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has hung on to its role as champion of integration on the Continent through deft use of diplomacy and the country's economic clout.

A Forbes Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer two years in a row, a Forbes Top 5 Social Sales Influencer, and creator of the leading social media for business blog Maximize Social Business, Neal Schaffer is a global social media speaker who has spoken on three continents and also teaches as part of the Rutgers more.

Having spent the past 12 years living and working in 10 countries on four continents, she is spending a year as an international student attending the executive MBA program at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

WASHINGTON — Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most experts had ever seen, Congressional investigators disclosed on Monday.

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.

In this episode of the Tony Robbins Podcast, you will hear from Renée Mauborgne — professor at INSEAD and co-director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute, and author of the best - selling book, Blue Ocean Strategy, which has sold over 3.5 million copies across 5 continents and was recently updated and expanded in 2015 — as she discusses how any business can break away from the competition, build a strong brand, and get the world of social media to start talking.

And the Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford, left jaws dropped across the continent this week when she proudly described Keystone XL as «responsible energy development» despite her province's skyrocketing emissions and record of environmental destruction.

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.

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.

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 economies.

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.

As the London - based head of McKinsey's storied network, he represents influence that spans continents and straddles the public and private sectors.

The European stock market contains indexes from across the continent, but are normally interpreted as an extension of the financial health of the European Union.

Now, a new day dawns and as the bulls seek to make it five sessions in a row of rising stock prices, we find that the markets were generally higher in Asia overnight, while the gains are incremental thus far in London and on the Continent.

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

The main indexes in Asia finished nicely higher overnight, while the major European bourses are in positive territory as trading moves into the second half of the session on the Continent.

As the slumping economies have underscored the continent's growing vulnerability to changes in China, they have quieted much of the heady talk of «Africa rising,» a catchphrase that symbolized the continent's fortunes.

He joined in 2008 as Chief Executive Non ‐ Ferrous with responsibility for over half of BHP Billiton's 100,000 strong workforce across four continents.

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