#continental

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #cap #continental #disappearing #entire

Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue. ↗

— Vince Cable

#associations #bank #cannot #continental #due

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american revolution #ancestors #army #continental #fought

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights. ↗

— Roger Milla

#bodies #continental #fifa #football #globally

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#any #comes #company #continental #corporation

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles. ↗

— Giorgio Moroder

#continental #like #music #nothing #say

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force. ↗

— William Whipple

#distressing #done #experience #force #furnishing

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend. ↗

— Leo Robin

#best friend #continental #diamonds #friend #girl

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#approach #british #continental #directors #opposed