Sentence examples for continent split from inspiring English sources

He added that the EU had reunited a continent "split by the cold war" around common values.

On a continent split for so long by the Iron Curtain, hopes were high that expansion would mark the final healing of its post-World War II divisions.

The Eastern Seaboard of the United States was once connected to the coast of West Africa before the continent split in two and the pieces drifted apart, creating the Atlantic Ocean.

Over the last sixty years, the European Union has reunified a continent split by the Cold War around values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights.

Combined with other fragmentary skeletons attributed to tyrannosaurs, raptors, and allosaurs, this as-yet-unnamed spinosaur may help paleontologists figure out when different dinosaur lineages arrived in Australia and, consequently, when and how the continent split from other land masses 80 million years ago.

Over millions of years, the two continents split apart, taking their oil palms with them.

Another explanation is plate tectonics: as the continents split they carried animals with them, physically separating populations.

Of still greater importance is the geography of the region at the time with what is now North America separated into two continents, split by a sea that ran north to south.

Much of the Washitaw iconography is Egyptian, which members attribute to the tribe's Pangaean origins – although geology shows the continents split many millions of years before the earliest days of Egyptian civilization.

As the scientists from Djibouti suggested, the network is also a boon for nations seeking a better understanding of the planet's inner secrets: the whys of earthquakes and volcanoes, of how continents split and merge.

He looked down the ever-growing line of hungry travellers awaiting tacos and said: "they say that before the continents split, Korea and Mexico were one land mass".