"The Roman Empire's multi-continent system of roads effectuated and symbolized Roman military, economic, and cultural power for centuries.
This three-continent system provides remarkable opportunities to monitor rapid evolution on a broad geographic scale (Ayala et al. 1989).
The continent's system is looser in part because Europe settled on a single technological standard for wireless carriers 20 years ago.
He questioned whether lawmakers needed to continue and lower the Continent's system of retail price caps on mobile phone roaming charges for voice, texting and mobile data, which were first put into place in 2007.
The European Commission has been busy enough, drafting proposals to regulate hedge funds and private-equity firms and to overhaul the continent's system of supervising cross-border financial institutions (see article).
BERLIN — European lawmakers agreed Wednesday to extend the Continent's system of retail price controls on mobile phone roaming charges for five years and enacted price caps on mobile Internet fees paid by traveling smartphone users.
The founding fathers of what is now the European Union Jean Monnet, a French civil servant, and Robert Schuman, a French foreign minister of the 1950s were convinced that the origins of conflict in Europe lay in the continent's system of competing nation-states.
The Beringian land bridge that emerged repeatedly during ice ages was of great importance in the energy and matter redistribution within the "continent – ocean" system and had a pronounced effect on air streams and surface marine currents in the North Pacific region.
In addition we also applied a separate rule to identify all continents; when one of the candidates for a toponym was a continent, our system always chose the coordinates of the continent.
Stiglitz gives a detailed and persuasive list of measures that would help to save the euro, including a continent-wide system of deposit guarantees, a unification of the banking system, a sharing of debt burdens, and an increased role for fiscal policies to help growth and stimulate employment.
The geologic setting in this area is controlled by a mid-continent rift system, which produced a series of intracontinental sedimentary basins juxtaposed against older cratonic rock.
