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Before the advent of modern weaponry, one of the central tenets of the isolationist catechism was that America's status as a continental nation, flanked by two great oceans, gave us the luxury of doing without all the treaties and alliances that countries such as France or Great Britain had to bother with.
"What continental jurist could have thought up a statute which reaffirms Ulster's dependence on the crown without excluding its eventual reattachment to the Republic of Ireland?"
While the bourgeoisie’s red-brick or stone houses are clearly inspired by Georgian and Victorian London and grander residences by the country houses and châteaux of continental Europe, the working-class row houses with outside iron staircases leading to upper floors (thus saving space inside) are a more characteristic Montréal feature.
Geologists say that the concept of continental drift may need to be revised to account for some sudden reshufflings that took place in Earth's past.
At the annual Conservative Party conference in Britain, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made what the conservative Times called a "jingoistic" speech blaming all Britain's problems in the last 60 years on continental Europe."