Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of a continent; a continental.
- noun In United States history, one who, just after the close of the revolutionary war, desired a stronger union of the States.
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Examples
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Generally speaking, their approach to Canadian-American relations is likely to be "continentalist"; they tend to see North America as a single unit, the resources of which should be developed for the mutual benefit of both countries.
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They see him as a sellout to the corporate crowd, a continentalist who catered to the conservative agenda of Tom d'Aquino, the outgoing head of the chief executives' group, and is now being rewarded for his efforts.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: July 2009 Archives 2009
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The article also quotes "Colin Robertson, senior fellow with the institute", but fails to mention "he was a member of the team that negotiated the Free Trade Agreement with the United States", information freely available on his CDFAI bio, or that currently Mr. Robertson has been seconded by DFAIT to Carleton University to direct the Canada-US Project, along with fellow continentalist Derek Burney :
Archive 2008-10-01 Noni Mausa 2008
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I think there is an obvious reason that Canadians are not hearing this kind of informed common sense about Afghanistan from Stephen Harper or his ministers or his generals or his continentalist independent panel, or indeed from some opposition leaders.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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French leftists accused Sarkozy of a dangerous Atlanticist continentalist?
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Crown has offered the Maple Kingdom a distinct sense of nationhood amidst a sea of continentalist influences; parliamentary government under the rule of law; provincial autonomy reconciled with federal authority.
The Small and Medium Enterprise Sector in the Emerging Economies of Eastern Europe and Russia 2002
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The pressures of the world are going to create a new alignment, north and south, regardless of your nationalist or continentalist position.
An Industrial Policy for CanadaTime for Fundamental Changes 1978
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As the flyleaf of Gentle Patriot informs us, he was a politician beyond the ordinary who soon challenged some of the most sacred articles of his party's faith; he was a nationalist at a time when the fashion was internationalist and continentalist, and his political career was distinguished from the outset by courage, integrity and loyalty to his friends.
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How do you know how you would fare with me if you were a continentalist!
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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No continentalist could have conceived either tale.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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