continent-wide love

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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective involving the entire continent.

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  • adjective involving the entire continent

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Examples

  • In order to ramp up this low carbon grid, the EU identified three key factors: improving energy efficiency (for example, by renovating buildings with insulation in walls and double glazing windows); investing in the energy market to create a zero carbon infrastructure (for example, by investing in the development of renewable energy, such wind and solar); and by ensuring continent-wide electricity grid interconnections.

    Tina Gerhardt: UN Climate Negotiations: EU Ramps Up Renewables and Addresses Aviation Emissions Tina Gerhardt 2011

  • However, Mr. Trichet's calls for a unified, continent-wide economic policy to match the ECB-managed monetary policy have met with opposition from some EU governments.

    Trichet Urges More Regulation Gabriele Parussini 2011

  • In Africa, for example, we've partnered with the Canadian-headquartered Enablis which just accredited its 100,000th business person in a highly successful, continent-wide entrepreneur's network.

    Roxanne Taylor: Putting People Back to Work Means Teaching Skills to Succeed Roxanne Taylor 2010

  • In order to ramp up this low carbon grid, the EU identified three key factors: improving energy efficiency (for example, by renovating buildings with insulation in walls and double glazing windows); investing in the energy market to create a zero carbon infrastructure (for example, by investing in the development of renewable energy, such wind and solar); and by ensuring continent-wide electricity grid interconnections.

    Tina Gerhardt: UN Climate Negotiations: EU Ramps Up Renewables and Addresses Aviation Emissions Tina Gerhardt 2011

  • *** Europe European Union leaders agreed to carry out continent-wide stress-tests for nuclear plants until the end of the year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

    World Watch 2011

  • In Africa, for example, we've partnered with the Canadian-headquartered Enablis which just accredited its 100,000th business person in a highly successful, continent-wide entrepreneur's network.

    Roxanne Taylor: Putting People Back to Work Means Teaching Skills to Succeed Roxanne Taylor 2010

  • The cause of the continent-wide decline has been attributed mainly to the lack of money and people needed to police parks, as well as the encroachment of humans on animal habitats.

    Africa's declining wildlife 2011

  • The Palestinians have been asking for a continent-wide declaration at that meeting that would call on Israel to freeze settlements in the occupied territories.

    Palestinians seek global recognition through South America Juan Forero 2011

  • Governments across the European Union will coordinate for a continent-wide exercise in 2012, according to the paper that accompanies Friday's announcements.

    U.K. Detects 'Talk' About Internet Terror Attack Alistair MacDonald 2011

  • Non-Chinese take their notions of nationalism from the history of countries like Britain and France—where in the early modern period nationalist officials, historians and rhetoricians could work in the context of continent-wide laws recognizing absolute sovereignty and of emerging bases of civil opposition to royal power, military forces to protect economic independence and essential farmland, and boundaries defined by treaty.

    China's Century-Long Identity Crisis Pamela Kyle Crossley 2011

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