Sentence examples for given a continental from inspiring English sources
The UCI confirmed three days ago that the team had been given a continental licence – two levels below Team Sky – under the name Team Wiggins and that its team director would be the former professional Simon Cope.
G. Wodehouse, not surprisingly, showed his grasp of this rule when he had one of the Drones, on holiday in France, point out that he had been given a Continental breakfast consisting of "a roll shaped like a crescent and a roll shaped like a roll".
The Unitarian Universalist Association consists of representatives of the local churches and the districts and seeks to give a continental voice to the movement.
UPDATE III: Eurostar customers are receiving email newsletters from Eurostar's marketing team which don't mention the crisis but are suggesting to passengers that they "give a continental gift this christmas".
However, the nature reserve is affected by the nearby presence of the Ardennes Mountains, which gives a continental influence to the climate.
Sri Lanka's batsmen haven't done especially well in English conditions, yet were given a sub-continental pitch on which to ease themselves in.
Celtic have previously been given a reprieve in continental competition in similar circumstances.
The three stars above the eagle constitute a design element that gives a more continental feel to the badge.
The Yugoslav Ivan Golac, however, utilised his intelligence and dexterity to give Southampton a continental flavour while Manchester City bought his inept countryman Dragoslav Stepanovic, although only injuries were to rob them of the full benefits of the late Kazimierz Deyna's range of subtle playmaking arts and viciously curling shots.
Given a new English-speaking superstate, what continental Europe did or didn't do would matter much less.
One column was led by Brigadier General William Smallwood, and the other, headed by Sullivan, consisted of troops led by a French officer who had been given a Continental Army brigadier's commission, the Chevalier Philippe Hubert Preudhomme de Borre.
