Sentence examples for most powerful continents from inspiring English sources

Blatter said that "we have to have a better balance" because the two most powerful continents could provide 19 of the 32 teams in Brazil next year.

Said by a son of Africa whose election to the world's most powerful post thrilled the continent, it was taken at its respectable face value.

The most powerful constitutional power was imperium.

FOR many centuries Europe was the world's most powerful, prosperous and technologically advanced continent.

In the mid-1500s, united Poland was the largest state in Europe and perhaps the continent's most powerful nation.

And Mr. Mbeki, leader of the continent's most powerful nation, spoke no evil of Mr. Mugabe's repressive ways.

By unifying a loosely knit jumble of aristocratic entities into the Continent's most powerful military state, Bismarck became the world's most influential political force.

While successfully integrated into Europe, Germany remains the Continent's most powerful economic force, with higher productivity and economic growth rates and lower inflation than the other major European countries, including France, Italy, Spain and Britain.

In South Africa, the continent's most powerful country, where democracy is fairly well established and independent institutions fairly robust, there is no imminent prospect of the African National Congress being voted out.

It is an issue much debated throughout Europe, and adopted in countries from Norway to France but fiercely contested elsewhere — nowhere more so than in the Continent's most powerful economy.

Few doubt that the continent's most powerful leader had Greece – the country she recently confessed to thinking more about than ever before and not "without a certain inner involvement" – in mind.