Continent
in sentence
1505 examples of Continent in a sentence
Similarly, the European Union's Lisbon agenda of economic liberalization was never really taken seriously in Germany, France, or most other countries on the
Continent.
That explains why the ECB, and some EU governments, are keen on the Capital Markets Union project, which aims to find ways to stimulate the growth of non-bank financing channels across the
continent.
Europe, once the
continent
of war, has shown that this is possible.
Consider the South African and Tanzanian troops using military force, under a Brazilian commander, to fight armed groups in the Congo, and the many African statesmen whose efforts have been central in mediation attempts across the
continent.
We know that in a complex system, the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings on one
continent
can cause a hurricane on another.
Africa has been described as a
continent
having a triple heritage, and the African Muslim, too, has a split personality.
Indeed, its members include about 45% of the world’s population, and 28% of the landmass ranging across the Eurasian
continent.
Turning Europe into a fortress, undermining freedom of movement across the continent, tightening borders, and ignoring legal – as well as moral – obligations to protect the vulnerable is a failing strategy.
Kenya has suffered the inevitable democratic backsliding, the continued corruption, and the unfulfilled reform agendas that remain persistent themes elsewhere on the
continent.
The subsidiary nature of the US combat-support role in Africa dictates that the US forego predominance in political and military decision-making concerning alliance operations, relinquishing out-front leadership in Africa (apart from the northeastern part of the continent).
Without an inflow of new blood and new ideas, the old
Continent'
s economic future looks bleak.
Much depends on whether Africa follows the path now being charted by Obasanjo or whether the
continent'
s leaders stick to the line of SADC and Mbeki.
Now we are free to enjoy and profit from our growingcontacts with literary comrades (a word that may have poisonous associations inthe former communist countries, but that continues to be used here for its connotationof genuine human solidarity) from our own
continent
and with whomever willinvite us to their countries or, even better, come to ours.
It is the
continent
where al-Qaeda launched its war against the United States in 1998, by bombing the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; where Boko Haram kidnapped 276 Nigerian schoolgirls in 2014; and where 147 students were killed in their sleep at Kenya’s Garissa University in 2015.
Add to this the mismanagement of ethnic and religious diversity, stir in a large and growing cohort of unemployed and digitally connected youth, and the
continent
offers ideal conditions for mayhem.
But while this deserves attention, the bigger story is that, because more carbon dioxide fertilizes vegetation, climate change has actually increased the world’s green matter (plants of all sorts) since 1982 by the equivalent of an entire
continent.
This is enough money to pay for health care that could save the lives of four million children on the
continent
and employ enough teachers to get every African child into school.
The European Union seems on the brink of collapse, and many non-Europeans view the old
continent
as a retired power that can still impress the world with its good manners, but not with nerve or ambition.
Across the continent, governments were busy coping with the consequences of the global crisis that had erupted the year before.
This large-scale migration, which is putting economic and social pressure on host countries across the continent, is driven largely by factors like poverty, instability, and natural disasters.
By 2030, over 120 million young people will enter the workforce across the
continent.
Africa’s youngest entrepreneurs are not only finding ways to support themselves and contribute to their communities; they are solving the main cause of migration on – and off – the
continent.
After all, these are the jobs that will keep Africa’s young people on the
continent
for generations to come.
This would entail enormous consequences for the security not just of Eastern Europe, but also of the
continent
as a whole.
Instead of leading change in a globalizing world, the
continent
has turned into an arena of political upheaval, competition for spheres of influence, and military conflict.
Trouble Amid Plenty in Emerging AfricaNEW YORK – Africa is changing dramatically – and so are outsiders’ attitudes toward it, with the US finally seeming determined to catch up with China, Europe, and India in their interest in the
continent.
The
continent
leads in mobile banking.
There is also the Africa that is struggling, with conflict and crisis afflicting much of the continent, especially the tens of millions of people living in a belt of countries running from Mali to Somalia.
The Obama administration is right to promote commercial opportunities on the
continent.
We Asians inhabit the world’s largest continent, with the world’s largest population and its fastest-growing economies.
Back
Next
Related words
Across
Which
Their
Countries
Economic
Would
World
People
About
There
Other
Growth
Should
Could
Years
Entire
Where
Country
Political
Global
