Sentence examples for leading continental from inspiring English sources

New Orleans International Airport, a leading continental link, is a major point of connection with Latin America.

Over a decade, he responded with vigour to the ideas of Picasso, Cocteau, Ernst and other leading continental figures.

Makers of two leading continental lagers look set to take a major stake in a newly-independent Whitbread Beer Company under proposals being drawn up to split the 257-year-old UK brewer from its parent.

The leading continental conductors Wilhelm Furtwängler and Willem Mengelberg sent for copies of the score, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra premiered the work in the US under Harty, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra gave the New York premiere, and the young George Szell conducted the symphony in Australia.

Besides being an outstanding researcher, Paul was also an influential figure in European psychology throughout his career and was recognized as the leading continental psychologist since the sixties.

Based in London, he put out work that soon came to resemble films by his leading Continental contemporaries — and, in some ways, to anticipate them.

This work demonstrates that significant subsidence occurred in Southwest Iberia several millions of years prior to the latest Jurassic earliest Cretaceous extensional episode leading to continental breakup.

In the last decade, WNV has infected numerous vector and host species [2] [4], leading to continental-wide declines in bird populations [5], [6], an estimated 3 million infections [7] and thousands of deaths in human hosts, and the expenditure of millions of dollars on control and vaccination efforts [8].

If regional patterns in the relative abundance of water vapour generate and stabilise winds, then both reduced tree cover and increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (inducing reduced stomatal opening, which leads to lower water-use, see e.g., de Boer et al. 2011) will reduce atmospheric moisture, leading to reduced continental precipitation and related winds.

According to this theory, the shelves of the Pacific Ocean, for example, formed as the leading edges of continental margins on lithospheric plates that terminate either at fracture zones (sites where two such plates slide past each other) or at subduction zones (sites where one of the colliding plates plunges into the underlying partially molten asthenosphere).

Gondwana breakup changed the global continental configuration, leading to opening of major oceanic gateways, shifts in the climate system and significant impacts on the biosphere, hydrosphere and cryosphere.