Sentence examples for of our continental from inspiring English sources

"This reaffirms our sovereignty rights over the resources of our continental shelf".

Not only were we damaging our own environment, we were damaging that of our continental neighbours.

The English have a private, market-based idea of property, in contrast to the familial property forms of our continental neighbours.

"Now it is not surprising that the British are upset, if we were proposing [taxes] on luxuries like wine I dare say some of our continental partners would think we were being rather unfair to them.

The advantage we have as British viewers is that when it comes to pop music we are so stupendously ahead of our continental cousins that we can afford to be relaxed about losing the Eurovision vote.

"This is a historic occasion for Argentina because we've made a huge leap in the demarcation of the exterior limit of our continental shelf," foreign minister Susana Malcorra said.

Step 4. Thanks to our continental culture of early evening drinking in parks, the standard beer can size in the UK is just right.

When we compare this level of trust with our Continental neighbours, we find that in 2009 20 out of the 27 members of the European Union displayed higher levels of trust in their governments than we did.

It would certainly be wise for more English people to know the language of the world's second largest economy, but it would also be foolish for England to stop learning the language of our nearest continental neighbour with whom we share centuries of common history.

French is the language of our closest continental neighbour".

Half of the nation's entire shoreline and three-fourths of our total continental shelf are in Alaska.