Sentence examples for distant continent from inspiring English sources

So players leave their preseason training camps with their clubs and fly off to give what often turns out to be half a match in a distant continent.

I welcomed her decision with self-interested enthusiasm: her newspaper was now supplemented by a monthly prayer book called China Reconstructs, posted directly from the distant continent, and she saved me the stamps from the biscuity envelopes.

But that same restaurant served lobster so carelessly prepared it might as well have been flown in from a distant continent — origin and food miles (the distance from habitat to plate) don't matter if you overcook a crustacean this feloniously — and scallops so rubbery you could have used them for racquet balls.

A description of her life and music is inevitably like one of those old movie montages in which an airplane zigzags across a map from continent to distant continent: She left Sri Lanka at the age of 9, a refugee from an ethnic civil war that's still roiling, and discovered hip-hop in a London housing project.

Now, in a situation similar to the migration of jobs from the United States to Asia, the Scottish cashmere business that sustained companies like Johnstons, Dawson International and Pringle faces its own challenge from the distant continent that was once no more than its source of raw materials.

The new relationship aims to link in the distant continent by capitalizing on the EMBL brand to attract elite young researchers to independent positions, which are traditionally very hard to come by in Australia.

But other countries, including America, are alarmed at Chinese bullying in neighbouring seas and distant continents.

But the sounds are born on distant continents and centuries of isolation from the Anglo-Saxon hordes.

From the 1920s until 1960, the pandemic HIV strain – there were others that fizzled out – spread from Kinshasa, crossed borders to other nations, and ultimately landed on distant continents.

It was a little weird, nonetheless, to see the world's third most valuable oil company temporarily commandeer a favela to produce a music video about clean energy and stage a press conference with canapguardian canapés for journalists flown in from distant continents.

During the ensuing 420 years, however, many other, sometimes fantastic hypotheses were proposed instead, like that they were descendants of Israel's lost tribes, came from distant continents like Europe or Oceania, or even that all humankind descended from them (reviews in Salzano and Callegari-Jacques 1988; Crawford 1998; Lavallée 2000).