Sentences with phrase «smallest continent by»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (releases November 6, 2012, available for pre-order)-- Kingsolver's new novel takes place in a small - town Tennessee and tells the story of a woman who must confront «her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.»

Such broadcast satellites could cover a continent or a large country with usable signals, or by directional antennas could aim their signals at smaller countries.

«It characterizes the option between two different «trajectories» that are present in the history of the people of God, and it is in this history that it affirms and makes explicit the meaning of its vocation in the world».31 Latin America is a continent where the state is very oppressive and the economy is controlled by transnational companies with the result that economic benefits are concentrated in the hands of a small community.

«Over the coming years we expect smaller producers to be acquired by the bigger players, especially if they're based across key customer locations on the continent.

«Voters in Africa don't vote on issues but on small favours and nepotism... Elections on the continent have been abused and characterized by fraud but with the social media, which provides freedom of speech,» he said, the citizens can express themselves and share information.

By that point, the average African mammal was already 50 percent smaller than those on other continents, the study reported, despite the fact that larger landmasses can typically support larger mammals.

Founded by a small international group of academic scientists, we aim to build a new class of optical telescope powerful enough to see continents on exoplanets like Proxima b.

Smaller contributions to planetary energy imbalance are from heat gain by the deeper ocean (+0.10 W / m2), energy used in net melting of ice (+0.05 W / m2), and energy taken up by warming continents (+0.02 W / m2).

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

We do not mean to be Apocalyptic, but, in the catalog of wars launched by states and of examples of dysfunctional management of our global ecology, we should also include the social wars that have broken out more or less openly, revealing an almost permanent demonstration of exclusion and of economic and social inequalities in the low - income districts of towns, both large and small, in every continent.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

First registered by the AKC in 1904, the Chihuahua is one of the oldest breeds on the American continent and one of the smallest breeds in the world.

The awards include categories for such things as best small hostel, best medium hostel, best hostel by continent and by country.

Ever since 19th century visits by J.M.W. Turner, Whistler and Walter Sickert, the small town of St Ives in Cornwall has a rich tradition of attracting artists from all over Britain and the Continent.

Furthermore, despite the fact that Africa is the continent most affected by — and perhaps because it is also the smallest contributor to the man - made effects of — climate change, Africa's voice in international climate change negotiations is very limited.

Small changes in sea level trigger flooding of large areas because of the gentle slope described by the continents between 200 m and -200 m.

The Atlantic is the small basin surrounded by low - heat - capacity continents (and an Arctic Ocean that is «continental» for most of the year from an atmospheric perspective), so it has higher amplitude and thus higher leverage on stats, including hemispheric & global ones.

In the final analysis we are arguing about a temperature record made by volunteers with little oversight over many generations on continents where a truly massive amount of land use change due to industrialization and agriculture and where said land mass is but a small fraction of the globe's surface one might wonder why we bother with it.

Differences were minimal after 1893 (by which time Stevenson screens were in widespread use for observations except in New South Wales and Victoria, a small area in the context of a global dataset), and before 1878 (when there were limited Australian observations of any kind and most of the continent was considered to be missing data in the HadCRUT4 dataset).

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Many of these firms already had long - standing relationships with firms on the continent and there was already a significant amount of international arbitrations related to African countries, usually carried out by a small number of specialist practitioners.

The P9 Plus will be available in May, in both Europe and Asia, while the smaller P9 will be on sale on both continents by the end of this month.