Book Shelf

VII. The continental shelf

Sami stepped out the door.

Sami stepped on dog excrement.

Definition of the continental shelf

Sami stepped out of the shower.

He stepped on my foot on purpose.

We stepped inside a small, bare room.

Thirdly, international cooperation should be stepped up.

My father made a shelf for me.

He placed the book on the shelf.

The bottle is on the upper shelf.

They threatened to crash until the state stepped in.

Efforts to combat child labour should be stepped up.

To the south lies the European continental shelf and the North Sea, to the east is the Eurasian continental shelf with the Barents Sea.

Christmas day it was out on the shelf edge.

The continental shelf and the work of the Commission

Into this fray stepped the US and its Western allies.

France has stepped up its monitoring of China s African activities.

Iranian authorities stepped up the pressure on Iranian media last week.

Its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, which is currently under examination by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, is estimated to be 953,525 square kilometres.

Amnesty International and Reporters sans frontieres both stepped away from the process.

In recognition of this, China has stepped up its efforts to mend fences.

Denmark continues to believe that pressure on the parties should be stepped up.

Indeed, without implementation, the recommendations will only gather dust on the shelf.

Last year, Australia lodged with the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf its submission on the outer limit of the shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the territorial sea baseline.

Article 2 of the Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf states that the coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources .

When Andy stepped down, he said, No technology will win. Technology itself will win.

Even against tiny Bhutan, China has stepped up its lands claims through military incursions.

But macroeconomic reform came to a screeching halt after Koizumi stepped down in 2006.

The rats have it good the one I accidentally stepped upon was already fat.

After two days of violence the military stepped in and the violence immediately ended.

Teaching in the scripts of the ethnic people was stepped up with 8 languages.

It also bought a large majority of BP's Gulf of Mexico Shelf properties.

Moreover, Hu stepped down as the chairman of the Central Military Commission sooner than expected.

Recently, international cooperation in minimizing the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster has been stepped up.

Within the Department, internal communication has been stepped up to ensure better exchanges of information.

In other words, I ve taken off the shelf components, and I ve made a spectroscope.

Some of these rascals are indeed, to put it gently, past their shelf life.

Most of Ross Ice Shelf is in the Ross Dependency claimed by New Zealand.

In dropping that half of Wilson s approach, they stepped on their own message, reducing its effectiveness.

Ahidjo stepped down on 4 November 1982 and left power to his constitutional successor, Paul Biya.

To achieve this goal, efforts will be stepped up to prevent and counter violence against women.

If that happens, withdrawal plans will be returned to the shelf probably for many years.

Information reported by the Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.