Sentences with phrase «[small island states»

Meanwhile, they were already the biggest spenders on the island state.

«The U.S. has obviously been clear about where it stands with the Paris Agreement, but it is heartening that 19 other countries reaffirmed their commitment to the agreement,» said Thoriq Ibrahim, minister of energy and environment for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, a group of countries vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

Residents of the island state, as well as thousands of tourists, woke around 8:07 a.m. local time on Saturday to alerts lighting up their mobile phones and interrupting television programming about a «ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii» and the warning that «this is not a drill» but an «extreme alert.»

Island state has been relatively open to new services, but has little tolerance of disorderly competition.

The summit is being hosted by Singapore, an island state of 5.6 million people that is the smallest in the 10 - member bloc, but the wealthiest and most westernised.

That half a degree is the difference between low - lying island states surviving, or Arctic ice remaining over the North Pole in summer, or increasing the risk of losing the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet or Greenland ice sheet (either one of which implies an eight - metre sea level rise.)

The Johor developments stem from Iskandar Malaysia, a government effort to leverage Singapore's success by building a new metropolis near the causeway that connects the island state to the Malaysian city of Johor Bahru.

Searches on Tasmanian real estate out of China have more than doubled since China's President Xi Jinping visited the island state on 19 November 2014, reports the Australian Financial Review... Leer más >

The island state of Singapore is even held up by some as a model of the firm, if somewhat repressive, government.

Slip out of slushy Sundays and into an island state of mind with this new modern oatmeal blend of authentic whole shredded Filipino coconut and California almond slivers.

That has prompted many major growers such as Treasury Wine Estates to look for cooler climate vineyards in places like the southernmost island state of Tasmania.

Tasmania's MONA is built on the site of one of the island state's first vineyards of the modern era, Moorilla Estate.

As the country's traditional wine growing regions including the Barossa, the Hunter Valley and Margaret River grow ever hotter and drier, winemakers are rushing to the tiny island state of Tasmania.

Unlike the metropolises of the mainland, the urban / rural separation is a magnitude less on the island state.

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Her awards include Fellowship in the American College of Nurse - Midwives and the American Academy of Nursing, the Lamaze International Research Award to the ACNM Optimality Working Group, the Margretta Madden Styles Award for Excellence in Nursing, the Rhode Island State Nurses Association President's Award for Service to Nursing, a Governor's Citation for Service to the State of Rhode Island, and the Irving Harris Visiting Professorship at the University of Illinois - Chicago.

It is funded through the United States Department of Agriculture and administered through the Rhode Island State Department of Health and local agencies throughout Rhode Island.

Former Republican Long Island state Sen. Jack Martins has joined a law firm that helped defeat his bid for Nassau County executive last year.

Maybe the NY Daily News should be careful about slander as well: check the Monday, March 15, 2015 Headline that states: «Veteran Long Island State Senator John Flanagan voted on bills that benefitted clients at law firm.»

With fears of losing a congressional seat, a Rhode Island state representative has created a bill to lure people to the state, proposing to pay «middle class» families up to $ 10,000 in tax credits or incentive payments to become residents for a year.

Senate IDC Leader Jeff Klein insisted that he's a single man in a new interview, before acknowledging that, yes, technically he's been in a relationship with Staten Island state Sen. Diane Savino for a decade.

Statement from New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Rhode Island State Lawmakers on Governors Creating New Interstate Coalition for Gun Safety

Todd Kaminsky, a South Shore Long Island state senator and long - time advocate for LIRR customers, said that Nowakowski's resignation is helpful, but not necessarily important to commuters.

Cuomo announced in Grand Island the state's plan to convert the current system of tolling into an automatic, cashless system.

She served as an aide to former Gov. George Pataki, working on New York City issues, and also worked as a staffer to late Staten Island state Sen. John Marchi, who twice ran for mayor.

Fellow marginal Long Island state Sens. Carl Marcellino and Kemp Hannon both said they can't comment on Democratic proposals because they haven't read the bills.

Vietnam veteran Richard Polly, 69, a resident at the Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook, uses a MyndVR system to view Paris in virtual reality, May 2, 2018.

Heading into the November 4 election, the Democratic Party held the majority in the Rhode Island State Senate:

Recently Clarke had a conversation with Jasmine Robinson, an Afro - Cubana legal secretary and community activist challenging Staten Island state Senator Diane Savino (a former breakaway Democrat) at an event.

«I've been pretty vocal about this policy since it was introduced,» said Staten Island State Senator Diane Savino.

Republicans have held all nine Long Island State Senate seats since 2010.

Both voted for Long Island state Senator John Flanagan in 2015, helping him secure the position of majority leader by a narrow margin over John DeFrancisco from Syracuse.

The proposal has attracted criticism as elitist: Staten Island State Senator Diane Savino derided the idea on her Facebook page as a «half - assed, feel - good limousine liberal approach.»

Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, a Staten Island Republican, is another contender said to be interested in replacing Mr. Grimm, as well as Staten Island State Senator Andrew Lanza.

The IDC's members — Staten Island State Senator Diane Savino, Rockland County State Senator David Carlucci, Queens State Senator Tony Avella and Syracuse State Senator David Valesky — also got to hold onto their chairmanships.

Monday morning, the New York Daily News reported that Cuomo was poised to veto a $ 22.2 million upgrade of SUNY Stony Brook's Kenneth P. Lavalle stadium (named after a sitting Long Island state senator) that was slipped into the new state budget.

With nuclear capabilities, America is handing a fundamentalist regime the tools of Armageddon,» said Long Island State Senator Thomas Croci, a former commander in the U.S. Navy and chairman of the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs.

The notion of a Long Island state has kicked around for more than a century and been revived from time to time.

New Yorkers Together this election cycle has been especially active in Long Island state Senate races on behalf of Democratic challengers to Republican incumbents, most recently funding efforts to bolster Democrat Ryan Cronin's bid against Sen. Kemp Hannon.

The independent expenditure group backed by the Real Estate Board of New York over the weekend invested nearly $ 30,000 for mail in two key Long Island state Senate districts.

Technically speaking, Democrat Dave Denenberg isn't running anymore for the Long Island state Senate seat once held by former GOP Sen. Chuck Fuschillo.

The political action committee backed by wealthy New York City landlords has spent another $ 35,805 in two key Long Island state Senate races.

Long Island state Senate candidate Adam Haber won a write - in ballot effort to appear under the Green Party line in November, but party members are vowing to appeal the results in court.

The endorsement battle in the Long Island state Senate race heated up as Clinton backed Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky and 14 police unions announced for Republican Christopher McGrath.

The Zionist Organization of America, in a letter to Long Island state Sen. Jack Martins, (a congressional candidate), ripped Sarah Schulman, who holds the title of distinguished professor of English at the College of Staten Island.

At 9:30 a.m., there's a court hearing in the NYC municipal ID lawsuit, Staten Island State Supreme Court; Courtroom 430; Judge Phillip Minardo; 26 Central Ave., Staten Island.

Rhode Island state senators serve two - year terms, with all seats up for election every two years.

The table below shows the partisan history of the Rhode Island State Senate following every general election from 1992 to 2016.

Meanwhile, during the mayor's testimony, the Republican controlled Senate voted to pass legislation from Staten Island State Senator Andrew Lanza to enact a cap in the city.

The State Parks office announced Tuesday the project will transform two lanes of highway into a trail that runs along the Niagara River from Beaver Island State Park to Buckhorn State Park, ultimately connecting Buffalo to Niagara Falls.