Sentences with phrase «as an island nation»

As an island nation with a history of colonies almost everything is imported.

Croatia, who finished second to Iceland in World Cup qualifying, were drawn into the same group as the island nation for this summer's tournament.

Nick Harvey, Campaigns Manager at Seafarers UK said: «As an island nation, the UK has always depended on seafarers, shipping and the wider maritime industry for our wellbeing and prosperity.

As an island nation, many of your potential activities are water based!

They exchanged ideas for more joint approaches as island nations dependent on tourism, and they all agreed on the need for long - haul tourism destinations such as the Caribbean islands and the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands to work together to continue to lobby against the UK Carbon Tax, which is working against the continued consolidation of tourism as an industry for these island nations who have worked tirelessly and made sacrifices to protect their environment which is today compensating the carbon emission from the developed world who are today imposing a carbon tax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main industry.

As an island nation, there naturally many to choose from.

As an island nation, New Zealand has an extensive and diverse coastline full of geological treasures, marine mammals, and coastal scenery, and the Abel Tasman National Park is no exception.

Secondly, focussing on delivering turnkey hybrid power solutions, which is of immense requirement in remote power installations such as island nations, most of which either can not afford the kind of diesel or fuel import costs that exist at this particular stage, or have mandates to move away from heavy carbon footprint in order to meet climate change goals.

Not exact matches

The Pacific nation of Vanuatu is preparing to permanently evacuate the entire population of one of its islands as thick ash spewing from a volcano kills crops, dirties water supplies and fouls the air.

However, as the League of Nations fell apart in the 1930s and was then replaced by the United Nations, the ruling on the status of Hans Island carries little to no weight.

Nigeria's request reiterated its support for Beijing's «One China» policy, which demands that countries break official relations with Taiwan, as Beijing pulls economic levers in Africa and elsewhere to woo nations away from the island it regards as rebel - held territory within Chinese borders.

São Tomé and Príncipe, an island nation off the west coast of Africa, decided last month to cut diplomatic ties with the island - an act Taiwan condemned as an «abrupt and unfriendly decision.»

Kammas says much has changed in the island nation as it adjusts to post-crisis reality, with banks focusing on domestic business.

It is important to many of my constituents — indeed, to the whole country as an island trading nation.

She described Beijing's view of these islands as more than just individual small nations, but collectively as an important factor in China's ability to resist Western containment.

As noted by Bloomberg, the island nation's Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, has claimed that cryptocurrencies are «the inevitable future of

Since being hit by Hurricane Maria last year, Puerto Rico has been embroiled in a power crisis, and Tesla has been doing its part helping the island nation through its products such as the Powerpack, Powerwall home battery, and solar panels.

The Pacific island nation said it became the first country in the world to recognize a cryptocurrency as its legal tender...

Malta, a small island nation in the Mediterranean, has fashioned itself as a leader in digital ledger technology regulation.

Malta is a little European island, whose pioneers are hoping to position inside the universe of cryptographic forms of money as a source of perspective nation in legitimate controls drawing in financial specialists in FinTech and related ventures.

The Japanese diet is dominated by seafood, as one might expect from an island nation.

The projects we photograph are as diverse as their locations, from just around the corner in downtown Vancouver, to Victoria and Nanaimo, across the border in Bellingham or Seattle, or out to the Gulf Islands, San Juan Islands, Sunshine Coast, and remote Coast Salish First Nations reserves.

Consequently, although Jesus himself had lived in the Near East, it was as a religion of Europe that his message came to the nations of the world and the islands of the sea — a religion of Europe both in the sense of a religion from Europe and, often, a religion about Europe as well.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

The predominantly Buddhist Island nation marks every full moon as a key religious holiday.

One of the most startling facts about America is the contrast between our great prosperity as a nation and these islands of misery in our cities, Why, with all our resources, initiative and ingenuity, do we do so little to solve these problems?

(Typically not mentioned is that by not ratifying CEDAW we also stand with the Holy See and scenic, island nations such as Tonga and Palau.)

WELLINGTON: New Zealand's booming tourism industry is emerging as a cornerstone of an economy hit by declining dairy exports, but the hordes descending on silver screen locations such as Hobbiton are stretching the small island nation's resources.

It's also a place where there's the potential for small scale regional conflict — political at this time — such as between China, Vietnam and Japan over the Spratley islands in the South China Sea and the known unknowns around political instability in nuclear - armed Pakistan and that nation's relationship to its nuclear - armed neighbour, India.

As for today's final at - large newcomer, the St. Bonaventure Bonnies, they only ended the Rhode Island Rams «perfect Atlantic 10 record and then - nation's longest win streak of 16 games.

Northerly Island will host as many as eight 30,000 - capacity concerts a summer in addition to a full slate of smaller shows, promoters Live Nation and the Chicago Park District will announce Monday.

«He is widely respected across the entire state, from Buffalo to Long Island and I can't think of a better friend or champion of effective and efficient government to have in my corner as I seek to reverse the Obama - Gillibrand policies that are destroying our nation's future.»

That wretched tradition has continued down through the foundation of Irish Republicanism by those who regarded their own Protestant and «Saxon» nation as the only true one on the Irish island, through anti-monarchist attitudes to Australian Aborigines from the Victorian Period to the present day, through Hendrik Verwoerd and Ian Smith, through attempts to abrogate the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand, and through the patriation of the Canadian Constitution against the wishes, both of the Aboriginal peoples to whom the Crown had numerous treaty obligations, and of the government of Quebec.

Judge Joan M. Azrack, in addressing a room full of prospective jurors on Monday, let it be known that they'd been selected as representatives of one of the largest federal district court jurisdictions in the nation, covering Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk counties.

Iceland's Prime Minister Geir Haarde warned on Tuesday that his country was facing a risk of «national bankruptcy» as the global banking crisis threatened to overwhelm the island nation.

Alisha Laventure, a Long Island native working as a news anchor in Dallas, launched into a passionate on - air segment about the president's derogatory remarks toward Haiti and African nations that has been viewed millions of times on Facebook.

Shortly after President Barack Obama announced plans to normalize relations with Cuba and to rescind the island nation's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans to lead a New York State Trade Mission there.

The quixotic idea of Long Island as the nation's 51st state, sparked by frustration over high taxes and lack of attention from Albany, has taken a step forward with Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's decision to support a new commission to study its feasibility.

A year after Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 24 - hour whirlwind trip to Cuba intended to, as the governor put it, rekindle a «friendship» with the Communist island nation, the state is still waiting to see the returns.

Staten Island / Brooklyn Republican Rep. Dan Donovan, whose district has a significant Syrian population, supports Trump's executive order, saying as a nation, we must «balance our compassion with security interests.»

NEW YORK (AP)-- Three of the nation's busiest airports all but shut down, more than 1,400 flights were canceled and the nation's largest commuter rail system suspended services Sunday as a blizzard churned across New York City and Long Island.

That means maintaining the necessary common standards and frameworks for our own domestic market, empowering the UK as an open, trading nation to strike the best trade deals around the world, and protecting the common resources of our islands.

Former FBI Director James Comey, in an appearance Tuesday before the Long Island Association, criticized President Donald Trump as unethical and said the administration's «relentless attacks» on federal law - enforcement institutions are making the nation less safe.

On the stump, he touted the Island's status as the safest community of its size in the nation.

For the record, New Mexico had the weakest increase in jobs in the nation as well as the smallest decline in the unemployment rate, while Rhode Island and Mississippi tied for the worst current unemployment rate and Maine and Connecticut saw the smallest increase in inflation - adjusted state GDP.

Cuomo said he believed King, from Long Island, which has some of the state and nation's highest property and school taxes, will likely vote against the plan and Donovan, from Staten Island might as well.

He noted the proposal comes as the nation and Long Island are trying to turn back a scourge of opioid and heroin abuse.

Global warming is altering — and threatening to erase — much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S..

Island nations threatened by sea level rise, such as the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific, have for years urged the IMO to push for a 100 percent emissions reduction by 2050 as the only strategy consistent with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels.

Technology showed its dark side in March 1979 as the Three Mile Island power plant suffered a severe core meltdown, the nation's most serious commercial nuclear accident.