the Continent

It is an attempt to paint a portrait of a time when the continent is plugging in to the rest of the world through mobiles and the internet.

Other dynamics are nonetheless beginning to transform the continent and its relations with the outside world.

But even for those lucky enough to be in work, the pattern of employment varies widely across the continent.

Other African leaders are watching closely, sensing that this may prove to be a test bed for the continent.

Gadhafi aimed to turn into Africa's capital, building it up as a showcase of his ambitions to be the continent's leader.

Anybody who commits the land power of the United States on the continent of Asia ought to have his head examined.

He wandered all over the continent, as the years slipped by, constantly searching for diamonds, which he never found.

By the middle of October we set off for our journey across the continent: a journey of about a year, across more than 2500 miles.

I'm trying to tell you that there's a new wave on the continent.

Get ready to question witnesses, search for evidence and get information from other agents as you chase crooks across the continent.

We got to talking and I learned more about his country and the continent of Africa in 30 minutes than I ever knew before then.

She left the rest of its contents to be disposed of by the auctioneer and took her departure for the Continent.

Thanks for your message. You're right, it would be great to hear from more SW listeners in Malaysia and around the continent!

Some of you may have seen the oped that Ambassador Ron Kirk wrote and was placed in newspapers here in Kenya and across the continent.

Scottish engineers brought crates of it up the Congo and Zambezi rivers decades before Coca-Cola set foot on the continent.

And I believed that the Brussels-based elite was a "new class" that had confused its own interests with those of the continent of Europe.

Even if Columbus had not discovered the continent of America, somebody else might have discovered it.

This seems to be especially true in Europe: the continent's labour markets are gummier than America's and services are more regulated.

So, all being well, it will only be a few more weeks before Gemma comes back to support me on the final leg of my run across the continent.

Some people -- I've got an English friend in China, and he said, "The continent is sleepwalking into oblivion. "

Like Archer, I also totally feel that the continent has not been a good host for my people.

The end of the cold war did not produce a thaw throughout the continent.

With Italy under strain, along with Spain, European corporate bonds began to feel the pinch Monday, along with stocks across the continent.

of Europe has meant that Austria has always been a junction for communications between the continent's main economic and cultural centres.

Like the English social scene as a whole, it had perspectives that the Continent seemed to lack.

To do so Chiang had to fight his way, on the ground over the North China Plain, the most strategic area on the continent.

However, such a move away from the continent can only go on for so long before Europe's own industrial base is harmed deeply.

South Africa, the continent'seconomic powerhouse, is no longer as dominant as it once was in terms of mobile phone usage.

And, for the rest of Europe, there is a lot to be said for having a strong economy at the continent's geographical and political centre.

It is almost as if the continent stopped having babies when the European Community, as it was then known, was formed.

He said the Chinese scramble for influence on the continent could lead to poor governance and environmental deterioration.

Are we content to see banks from other, especially small European, countries take deposits across the continent on the same basis as before?

He said his decision has received widespread support from within the region, the continent and the broad international community.

A year ago, the White House announced one central command for the continent.

European power companies which helped set up the continent's carbon-trading system did extremely well out of it.

A report by European police agency Europol on security in 2010 said that there was no right-wing terrorism on the continent in that period.

Few forms of foreign aid would make as much of an impact as facilitating a SciELO-type site across the continent, he adds.

Some people, I've got an English friend in China, he said "the continent is sleepwalking into oblivion. "

His generous investment of Libyan oil revenues around the continent, of course, was a more venal inducement to African fealty.

The long inconclusive series of wars on the continent were comfortably removed, in terms of danger or observable bloodshed.

A decade ago we set out to create a reference map across the whole of the continent that would plot the variation in microsatellite DNA.

By the middle of October we set off for our journey across the continent : a journey of about a year, across more than 2, 500 miles.

For that reason , the continent should be encouraged to harness benefits that would accrue from the enormous potential of the IP system .

It tracks his movements as he travelled around the continent living in variously Zurich, Paris, London and Locarno.

I suppose the answer comes from looking around the continent's capitals at the quality of its leaders.

It favours sandy soils in the warmer, eastern parts of the continent, where it may grow up to 15 metres in height.

The alternative is to let the euro-zone break apart and trade suffer across the Continent.

Africa may have to look to South Africa, the continent's sole coastal country between the Red Sea and the Cape with a proper navy.

This was a painstaking, serious and generous exercise in spreading political and economic freedom across the Continent.

The threatened Australian sea lion is found only in the Great Australian Bight, which arcs around the southern shore of the continent.

Eons ago, when the continent of Valeria had just been born, there was a time of peace.

A $1, 500bn economy, the continent is ready to leave the third world.

Temperatures on much of the continent at the bottom of the world were staying the same or slightly cooling, previous research indicated.

Communities across the continent could be connected by such a green belt.

Never before in Europe has so much money been moved around the continent amid so much publicity.

As I had driven the length of Europe en route to Albania, I felt that the Continent would hold little surprise or interest for me.

Drastically population It effectively spread the disease all over the continent and drastically reduced the rabbit population.

They represent just a tiny proportion of the skilled Africans of all trades and professions who leave the continent.

During the last "great game" , when Europe carved up the continent, the cards were stacked heavily against Africans.

Preztunik caught sight of some melting icebergs, which she said are frequently visible around the continent.

Lake Eyre is near the center of the continent a great salt lake, covering an area over 9000 square km, but the long-term status was dry.

Over the past 50 years or so much of the continent has been exploited by thugs who have felt able to steal and murder with impunity.

Yet all this has been accompanied by a steady drumbeat of optimism about the continent, and confidence in its prospects.

Or you could back off to see the state, the country, the continent, even the globe itself.

Much of the continent is on the edge of extreme hunger, but it also happens to be amenable to a significant rise in food production.

But there has been a change in the political dynamics of the continent's sovereign debt crisis.

i pursued wanderings as wild as those of the march - spirit . i sought the continent , and went devious through all its lands.

As well can the lover forgive the ravisher of his mistress, as the continent forgive the murders of Britain.

The US has reclaimed much of its moral authority. The president is more popular in Europe than are most of the continent's own leaders.

African and European mobile companies have now expanded across the continent to such an extent that many markets are now overcrowded.

In other words, the money continues to flow from the south to the north of the continent (albeit by a slightly indirect route).

It will be a headquarters for Chinese businesses operating in Africa, away from the instability that affects parts of the continent.

Already bruised by declining investment, the latest growth and inflation projections have been downgraded across the continent.

Visit all the places you always wanted to before possibly moving to another corner of the continent for your dream school.

Among the first Google initiatives on the continent since setting up offices there three years ago was the expansion of Google Maps.

The mass of the continent: environment law as enacted law, must have as its main part of a social and material living conditions.

The country has made many gains since then and continues to be one of the continent's fastest growing economies.

The width of the continent might have spread between her and home instead of twenty-five miles of dusty road.

Anyone heading to the Continent for a shopping trip or ski break is being advised to seek out the best currency deals before going away.

The former president has long said he would like to some further, but as yet unspecified, role on the continent.

Chinese companies were establishing themselves in Africa and there was a need for management education in the continent he says.

Most policymakers now accept that stress tests of the continent's banks in July were nowhere near tough enough to restore confidence.

Today, "spuds" are grown across the continent, from the southern temperate state of Tasmania to tropical North Queensland.

She was on track to become one more illiterate African woman, another of the continent's squandered human resources.

I spent the winter with my daughter in Oregon, and the next spring, I drove back across the continent.

You probably have to come along with me to conferences and things on the Continent from time to time.

Africans themselves readily concede that there continues to be terrible conflict and human suffering on the continent.

No doubt China's presence on the continent has expanded considerably in recent years.

If it is the continent coast then the Phlipines has no coast.

China's willingness to invest in Europe is seen as a key buffer against the risk created by the continent's shaky public finances.

If it is the continent coast then the Phlipines has no coast.

China's willingness to invest in Europe is seen as a key buffer against the risk created by the continent's shaky public finances.

By 2008, Chinese companies had amassed 56 upstream contracts between them across the continent, according to consultants IHS Energy.

During the four decades that he has governed Libya, Qaddafi has entrenched himself as a dominant political force across the continent.

The Bank's experts are concerned about a lending squeeze on the continent, which they fear could spread to the UK.

It was billed as a chance to show off improved results and offer proof that the continent is an attractive home for foreign investment.

In large parts of the Continent, governments have dropped restrictions on store hours -- for instance allowing Sunday openings.

This nurtured hopes that banks would relend some of these fresh funds to the continent's embattled periphery.

Mr Mills said it was time for the west to stop regarding the continent as a "quaint curiosity" in cultural terms.

As hypothermia and famine hit the continent, accompanied by an outbreak of plague, countless people died.

The economic crisis has seen governments across the continent reframe Brussels as part of the problem rather than a solution.

An alternative African strategy might be to block Chinese imports to protect the continent's fragile industrial base.

And that's exactly what's worrying anti-corruption campaigners as China becomes the biggest new investor across the continent.

The editorial argues that the African Union is well placed to put meaningful science initiatives in place on the continent.

If a tourist is lucky enough, he or she can join an expedition to see some of the continent's other residents.

The English Romantic poets, as they are now known, were very interested in what was happening in the rest of the continent.

The journey through the mountains and desert in the central part of the continent was the most trying part.

The land of Sanctuary begins to literally splinter, as the continent experiences dramatic geographic shifts.

Compared with America, even the growing parts of the continent have modest fertility rates and high dependency ratios.

European markets rose, but there is still some concern about the long-term health of the continent's economy.

The bottom line? Less growth across the continent.

China is now the continent's largest trading partner, edging out the U.

I knew Africa was changing, but making the continent's case in print was not the same as banishing the ingrained doubt from my mind.

The area looked like today's East Africa, where the Horn of Africa is slowly drifting away from the rest of the continent.

The cross-Chan-enl ferries are a quick and convenient means of sending goods across to the Continent.

It is a betrayal of that history to turn our backs on the continent.

European creativity stem from many sources and are disseminated all over the continent.

No man is an island, entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

He is fascinated by the late 19th century, when Germans were scattered across central Europe, and Jews enriched life all over the continent.

The European Central Bank's intervention in the Spanish and Italian debt markets is no panacea for the troubles rocking the continent.

In the course of the centuries following the Norman Conquest the connection of England with the continent, as we have seen, had been broken.

Africans across the continent and oppressed peoples elsewhere still look to South Africa's leader as a beacon of hope.

But if you are on the outskirts of the continent, this might be a handy, cost-effective and interesting way to move about.

A commonwealth comprising the continent of Australia, the island state of Tasmania, two external territories, and several dependencies.

U. K. -based Standard Bank is one of Africa's largest banks with offices in 18 countries across the continent.

The low fertility belt runs from the Mediterranean to central and eastern Europe, embracing both old and new parts of the continent.

However, for this solution to work at the European level immigration would have to come from outside the continent, probably from Africa.

South Africa is already the largest energy producer and consumer on the continent , and a top producer of gold, platinum and palladium.

Hungary is a democracy, a member of the European Union, NATO and the Schengen Zone, which allows visa free travel across the continent.

In many parts of the world -- let's say, in the continent of Africa -- there are ethnic and tribal conflicts that are very hard to resolve.

These people had a significant linguistic impact on the continent as well.

And maybe because my ancestors had been early explorers of the continent, I considered the whole of North America as my domain.

Finally, in a third major conclusion, the report cites weak national health systems as the continent's biggest public health challenge.

What began on this island would inspire millions throughout the continent of Europe and across the world.

Courts in many parts of the continent are packed with pliant judges keen to do their masters' bidding.

Known from only scattered few records across the continent, this catch was a fabulous record.

The first is the appetite of China and India for the raw materials with which the continent is richly endowed.

Since Brazil clearly dominates the continent demographically, Brazil could outnumber US residents by the end of the century.

When will they stop arguing their continued misleading of the continent in the name of 'stability'?

A Greek default also would be costly to the European Central Bank, the Continent's equivalent of the Federal Reserve.

We really do have it going right -- that the continent is growing at rates that people had thought would not happen.

The greatest concentrations of industry in Europe are located chiefly in the continent's five leading manufacturing nations.

The immense distance between the two ends of the continent makes an ancient African exchange system appear improbable.

Pooling resources and expertise across the continent would be more cost-effective, and may end up being inevitable.

The continent missed the Green Revolution that transformed India and China and has battled recurrent food shortages. The U.

Situated in South Western Euroe, Spain is one of the most beautiful and diverse countries on the continent, both in landscape and culture.

By May 25, the British army was pushed back and driven off the continent at Dunkirk .

On Somalia, another of the continent's nastiest conflicts, Mr Obama is likely to be cautious.

Many western countries are seeking China's pledge to help stimulate the continent's economy and lift market confidence.

The most dangerous part of the Antarctic ice cap is in the west, where much of the continent lies slightly below sea level.

Nigeria should first try to close the democratic gap with South Africa, the continent's top dog, as well as improve its scam-ridden economy.

However, totality could be observed throughout the continent except for northern Scotland and northern Scandinavia.

In Ghana, held to be the continent's most competitive market, South Africa's MTN, Zain and Vodafone face three smaller competitors.

But poor standards of corporate responsibility present a real danger to the continent's environment and development.

Four-fifths of employers across the continent expect to make no staff changes and declines are expected in Spain, Ireland and Romania.

James Madison considered the expansiveness of the continent to be a necessary ingredient of liberty.

Let us work together, help Africa to grow and contribute to a peaceful and prosperous future for the continent.

When we first launched this program five and a half years ago, the scourge of HIV AIDS had * a shadow over the continent of Africa.

It was a rare month of good press coverage for the continent.

But some leading African Union members are fearful of encouraging secessionist sentiment across the continent.

Some contend the Continent's extra social padding hasn't necessarily been a drag on growth.

But the AU, at least by default, is also the continent's most effective multilateral institution.

I live on the continent of Africa -- in and around the Sahara Desert.

A single spoken language soon echoed across the continent, overcoming space as the printed word overcomes time.

Living alongside poultry is a way of life across the continent and six countries already have the H5N1 virus.

The rise of Brazil as a global power has overshadowed much of the rest of the continent.

Yet as Europe goes to the polls, left-leaning parties across the continent are looking likely to falter.

If the continent is to overcome the brain drain of this emigration, African countries must find ways to tempt them home.

The group has chosen the city of Barcelona to hold their first concert in Spain, initiating their tour through the continent.

The United States will not build new bases on the continent, but will use Australian facilities instead.

European competitiveness is best achieved by placing business at the forefront of the continent's social and economic transformation.

Many countries of the continent were greatly influenced by the Xinhai Revolution and met a wave of national liberation and independence.

The new state of Hawaii is far from the states of the east coast of the continent.

Despite huge enthusiasm for football and the presence of six of the continent's teams in the World Cup, ticket sales had been disappointing.

The end of the prehistoric period varies from region to region across the continent.

The continent, the levees are the three towers, shadow into a lake, the so-called "three" also.

The World Energy Council says the power shortage has contributed to continued poverty and underdevelopment across the continent.

Arbitrary arrests , torture and forced labour soon became commonplace across the continent.

He is an ardent opponent of the Lisbon treaty streamlining the way the EU is run and is the continent's leading climate change denier.

The European Championship has long presented Uefa with an opportunity to showcase the finest footballers in the continent.

China, hungry for resources to feed its booming economy, has invested across the continent in oil and mineral extraction.

In this paper, recent progress in seismological, geochemical and petrological studies of the continent-tal lithosphere studies are reviewed.

In Mo Ibrahim's index of good governance the southern part of the continent generally does well.

China's footprint in Africa becomes more pronounced each time the continent receives another high-level Chinese delegation.

Low soil fertility has slowed agricultural production in parts of the continent for years.

The nearest approach to a liberal and practical philosophy on the Continent of Europe was the Positivism of Auguste Comte (1798-1857).

Mary is also remembered as the monarch who lost the French port of Calais, the last British possession on the Continent.

AFRICOM will make U. S. military interaction on and around the continent more effective, Whelan said at a Washington press briefing.

Speaking to Ghana's national assembly, he emphasised that the continent's moment of promise is one that Africans must seize for themselves.

WHEN Jobbik, a Hungarian far-right party, took 15% of the vote in June's European election, it sent shudders across the continent.

Analysts see it as symptomatic of a new and subtler phase of Chinese engagement with the continent.

In Western Europe cannabis consumption is stable, but it has increased in the continent's east, as also in Latin America.

It is already the source of a wealth of traditional medicines used by at least 80 per cent of people on the continent.

At stores down Naivasha Road, and throughout the continent and the rest of the world, Coke fridges are stocked in similar fashion.

India is the third-biggest contributor of UN peacekeepers to the continent, helping clamp down on civil wars in Sudan and Congo.

Manchester United prevailed over Chelsea, as the rest of the continent looked on.

All across the continent, Chinese companies are signing deals that dwarf the old railroad project.

But there have been wide objections to an austerity plan proposed by Germany and France, the continent's two strongest economies.

Yet during the past year's "pause for reflection" , plenty of ideas have been put forward by the continent's leaders.

The bitter disappointment long expressed by British youths is spreading across the Continent.

If enthusiasm wanes for the euro, boosters fear, this could spell trouble for other efforts to knit the nations of the Continent together.

For the African wild dog, one of the continent's most endangered carnivores, it's a matter of life and death.

The eyeballs of penguins across the continent were irreparably damaged, as little tears of discomfort froze to their faces. I'm assuming.

Pugnacious, belligerent, quarrelsome . . . the North Korean capital is the moody adolescent of the continent.

After French and Belgian MPs voted to ban it, more bans on female (invariably Muslim) headgear will follow around the continent in 2011.

The continent is being bound together by a strong spirit of free trade.

Coke plans to spend $12 billion in the continent during the next 10 years, more than twice as much as in the previous decade.

Anything that sees the continent strengthen its defence capabilities is now welcome.

Its annual board of governors meeting is taking place today and tomorrow outside the continent for the second time in the bank's history.

In an earlier address to business leaders in Pretoria, Mrs Clinton says that there is great untapped potential on the continent.

If progress in Africa could be measured by the frequency of elections, the continent might already be nearing Olympian form.

The Continent's intensifying financial crisis has made it difficult for many banks to obtain funding from customary market sources.

Pacific Compression forced nearly 60% of the continent underwater due to the Australian Plate being connected to the Indian Plate.

Typical of the grassland dwellers of the continent is the American antelope, antelope or pronghorn.

He sees nothing sinister about the mosques, madrassas and schools built, restored or run by Sunni Turks across the continent.

Drug discovery and development efforts are fragmented across the continent.

The lower half of the continent experienced weather patterns not unlike Europe today, with snowy winters and mild to warm summers .

Chinese institutions insist their lending will not imperil the continent's environmental or debt sustainability.

It is also the only place in Asia with type 3 polio, a strain which is on the verge of elimination on the continent.

Economists across the continent are now tweaking their spreadsheets.

That, the climatic information in the continent loess can be compared with records of Antarctic ice-core.

With the water comes one of the continent's most magnificent migrations.

The results suggest even the recent revival in economic growth has not convinced Europeans that the continent is on the right track.

Its Australian journey began in the "red center" of the continent at Uluru (Ayers Rock), an immense rock sacred to the Aboriginal people.

After investors hurried to buy shares, the founder "set off the same evening for the Continent" and was never heard of again.

Many introduced plants have become naturalized across the continent and some are replacing North American native plant species.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the fight that will determine the heavyweight champion of the continent .

Home to just 500 people, they are an Australian territory, but on many maps of the continent, they do not even feature.

The position - the continent of Atlantis occupied is'between the Gulf of Mexico on the one hand and the Mediterranean upon the other.

S& P has negative outlook assessments on more than half of the continent's biggest banks, with only Dutch group Rabobank now AAA rated.

Major international corporations are opening new offices in African capitals and opening their eyes to the continent's investment potential.

His rise coincided with an oil boom that saw his country become the continent's third-biggest petroleum producer.

The debt crisis that began in Greece two years ago has upended that idea, bringing the Continent's divisions to the fore.

These countries exploited the continent's natural resources but failed to en- courage development of labour-intensive industry.

As The Economist put it: "Across the Continent, Bush hatred has been replaced by Obama-mania. "

In his speech, Mr. Obama called on African leaders to buck the continent's long track record of poor governance and human rights abuses.

Today we cross the continent in fast airplanes in contradistinction to the slow covered wagons of our ancestors.

India once shared close ties with the continent, and staunchly supported the African independence struggle against colonial rulers.

India is preparing to host a two-day summit of leaders of key African countries in a bid to deepen engagement with the continent.

Annual temperatures haven't changed a whole lot over the continent as a whole.

Typical of the grassland dwellers of the continent is the American antelope , or pronghorn .

Democratic penetration in the continent expanded after the 1980s, Valenzuela said, as evidenced by the diminishing number of military coups.

Improved and enlarged to encompass the continent, the big machine works on its subjects continuously, day and night.

The African Union's decision comes after intense debate among the continent's leaders.

Many Africans view homosexuality as an immoral Western import, and the continent is full of harsh homophobic laws.

But talk to officials in Brussels or business chiefs across the continent, and anxiety is building.

They were not soft-rock aficionados, but Facebook fans of populist right-wing parties that are sweeping the continent.

Across the continent banks are finding it hard to refinance their own debts cheaply (see article).

This ancient festival originated far from North America however, and centuries before the first European set foot on the continent.

The former New Jersey governor believed the bonds would bring high profits for him if the continent could ride out the crisis.