Sentences with phrase «from island nations»

People all over the world are feeling the impacts, from island nations that are going underwater, to indigenous land being exploited for fossil fuel extraction.

The international field for the weekend will mark the first time that squads from the Island nations of Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, will be in the same event since the 2007 USA Sevens.

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

Representatives from this island nation will not only introduce trade visitors to its latest organic products but will also provide details about its particular regional features.

This will truly be the biggest tournament that any national squad from that island nation has participated in since its foundation in 1934 and admission to FIFA in 1988.

«Strákarnir Okkar» (Our Boys) from an island nation with a population of around 330,000 produced smart, well - disciplined and entertaining football to reach the quarter finals.

Officials from the island nation are eager to find ways to improve their education system by observing schools in the United States — despite this country's mediocre finish in that study, the biggest and broadest ever conducted comparing the math and science performance of 7th and 8th graders around the globe.

Click here for my interview with her a year ago, from the island nation of Malta.

«The U.S. talks about ambitious targets and we would have liked to see a reduction of at least 45 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 --- we think it is possible,» said Amjad Abdulla, the lead negotiator from the island nation Maldives.

1995 Goldman Prize winner Noah Idechong, hailing from the island nation of Palau, recently stopped by the Goldman Prize office in San Francisco, where he gave us a great update... Read More

1995 Goldman Prize winner Noah Idechong, hailing from the island nation of Palau, recently stopped by the Goldman Prize office in San Francisco, where he gave us a great update on his work and what he has been up to since winning the Prize almost 20 years ago.

Earlier this fall, I crossed the Pacific Ocean from the island nation of Kiribati, which I am privileged to serve as President, to visit the United States.

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.

Apologies, W.M., but my colleague Geoffrey wrote that headline, and he comes from that small island nation where people think collective nouns can take plural verbs.

Gum chewing is forbidden and caning a risk, but the tiny island nation wins high marks from expats for ease of living, pleasant weather and safe, affordable street food.

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.

Matos's father, who hails from a family of cattle ranchers in Cuba, fled the island nation in 1967.

Americans, who had been barred from visiting the island nation for decades, are already adjusting their travel plans.

Working with Blue Fountain Media, Long Island Heart Doctors was able to acheive the top organic search result on page one when you type in «heart doctor,» out - ranking everyone from Wikipedia to the nation's top cardiology hospitals.

From the U.S. / Turtle Island, I stand in solidarity with the Native American, First Nations, and other indigenous nations, near, far, and wide against ALL fossil fuel pipeline proNations, and other indigenous nations, near, far, and wide against ALL fossil fuel pipeline pronations, near, far, and wide against ALL fossil fuel pipeline projects!!

Starting next week, tour operator Cuba Travel Services will begin offering what it says is the first regularly scheduled direct charter service from New York to Havana since President Barack Obama restored diplomatic relations with the island nation in December.

Some 600 computers used to «mine» bitcoin and other virtual currencies have been stolen from data centers in Iceland in what police say is the biggest series of thefts ever in the North Atlantic island nation.

Other nations with territorial systems have tried to prevent companies from wriggling out of paying taxes, while tax experts have suggested proposals ranging from a minimum global tax to tighter rules to prevent companies from relocating their patents and copyrights to tax havens like Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.

Loss of sand from the Nation's beaches, dunes, and barrier islands is a serious problem that affects both the coastal environment and the economy.

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.

There are also reports from the island of Halmahera in North Maluku of Christian militia training to fight Muslims.Last week Konrad Raiser, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, in Geneva, called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, to make an immediate, investigative visit to the Maluku islands.

Benedict will arrive at the island nation from Mexico, where he denounced drug wars and violence Friday in a visit scheduled just months ahead of its presidential elections.

Which translates into — I was born on an island nation, Singapore, and we grew up feasting on seafood, and every type of fish, from the tiny ikan bilis to large garoupa fish.

«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.

Senator Carl L. Marcellino said, «The Long Island Railroad is the busiest commuter train system in the nation, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers rely on it every day to get to and from work.

PRINCETON, NJ — An analysis of Gallup Poll Daily tracking data from 2008 finds Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Hawaii to be the most Democratic states in the nation, along with the District of Columbia.

New York's roads are some of the most congested in the nation, with commutes from Long Island, White Plains, and Northern and Southern New Jersey averaging upwards of two hours.

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.

Deacon backs a bill in Congress from Rep. Peter King, R - Long Island, that would ban licensed firearms dealers from selling guns or explosives to any individual on the nation's no - fly list of suspected terrorists.

While Dan Donovan, the city's only Republican U.S. Assemblyman, believes the tax cuts will create jobs, spur business investment and «put more money in the pockets of hardworking families,» he wanted to make sure his constituents of Staten Island and Brooklyn benefited from tax relief and didn't «shoulder the burden» for cuts elsewhere in the nation, he said.

«She had concluded plans to run off to a Caribbean Island to live off the blood money she stole, not hauled from the poorest and the most vulnerable citizens of this nation.

Long Island notched small population gains from 2014 to 2015 on the strength of growth in Nassau County, while Suffolk County's population dipped — largely the result of people leaving for other parts of the nation.

From Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, to the Dominican Republican and other Caribbean nations in Irma's path, New York is here to help.»

This sounded a little off, especially considering that millions of immigrants from other nations (Ireland and Poland to name but two) arrived at Ellis Island and other transit points across this great land without papers.

From the east, the commute from Long Island to New York City is one of the worst commutes in the natFrom the east, the commute from Long Island to New York City is one of the worst commutes in the natfrom Long Island to New York City is one of the worst commutes in the nation.

Long Island notched small population gains from 2014 to 2015 on the strength of growth in Nassau County, while Suffolk County's population dipped — largely the result of people leaving for other parts of the nation, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday.

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.

One of Kelly's favorite places to view from space was the Bahamas — a nation comprised of some 700 islands and cays.

In May I traveled from my lab at the University of British Columbia to the Gilbert Islands, part of the island nation of Kiribati, in the central equatorial Pacific.

The results confirm that Vanuatu's first people were of the Lapita culture and arrived 3,000 years ago from South East Asia, followed by Papuan arrivals from the island of New Britain, in the Bismarck Archipelago just to the east of New Guinea and part of the nation of Papua New Guinea.

The displaced islanders, thousands of whom were awaiting flights yesterday from San Juan's Luis Muñoz Marín airport, might be among the nation's newest «climate refugees,» a demographic that includes former residents of southernmost Louisiana and the shrinking islands of Alaska's Bering Strait.

Catastrophic effects of global warming are being felt from the deserts of Darfur to the island nation of Kiribati

2 June Australia reports 501 confirmed cases, up from 17 a week before, making the island nation the hardest - hit country outside of North America.