Sentence examples for continents divide from inspiring English sources

It remains there to this day – with only Turkish Thrace remaining as a reminder that "Europe" may stop where continents divide, but also where empires collide.

Since the big melt began last weekend, those alps have broken apart into separate island continents, divided by a rising sea of gravel and matted sod.

Thousands of years ago, when the continents divided and humans went from migrating, nomadic hunter-gatherers to stationary agriculture based tribes, we needed to identify a dependable food supply and grains became just that.

Enlargement remains the union's greatest achievement, reuniting a continent divided by decades of communist tyranny.

This process culminated in 2004 in the reunification of a continent divided by the iron curtain of communism.

Speaking at the beginning of a four-nation tour, Bush said: 'This attempt to sacrifice freedom for the sake of stability left a continent divided and unstable.

Peering out from his Kremlin perch, Putin sees a European continent divided between wealthy and poor countries, between north and south, and senses an opportunity.

It reunited a continent divided by Soviet oppression and brought into the European fold nations that had previously hovered on the edges of the West.

At the beginning of the show, a Dutch map of Africa from the late 16th century depicts the continent divided up among European countries into a mosaic with different colored boundaries.

Since the "scramble for Africa" that saw the continent divided up by colonial masters, African countries have largely maintained closer links with former colonisers than they have with each other.

The last couple of weeks - the NATO summit meeting, the Kohl-Gorbachev accord, the Paris talks on Germany - have removed all important barriers that kept Germany and the Continent divided since World War II.