Sentences with phrase «island people as»

Aboriginal health services today called on all parties to back a Royal Commission into the devastating rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people as a priority for the new Federal parliament.

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No person is an island, as the saying goes, and that holds true for your business life as well.

People who own and run their own business like to think of themselves as a remote island.

No person is an island, as the saying goes.

A Reuters witness described the roof and walls of a well - built house shaking hard as the storm rocked the island of Providenciales and caused a drop in pressure that could be felt in people's chests.

The Miami - based company had ships available due to cancelled cruises, allowing them to mobilize the vessels for evacuations of people on hurricane - ravaged islands in the Caribbean region such as St. Thomas and St. Martin.

Others resisted incorporating places like Puerto Rico simply on racial grounds, as the island was home to hundreds of thousands of people with African roots.

Soldiers of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy patrol at Woody Island, in the Paracel Archipelago, which is known in China as the Xisha Islands, January 29, 2016.

He serves as Puerto Rico's non-voting representative in Congress and said in a statement that the «current administration in San Juan has done a tremendous disservice to the people of Puerto Rico, blaming everyone but itself for the island's problems.»

CB: Seeing as there's no desert island or Snooki, why do you think people will enjoy watching a reality show about business?

Puerto Rico had an estimated 500,000 stray dogs before the hurricane — and since the storm, it's only gotten worse as people have fled the island.

Very few people accept cryptocurrency for normal business transactions, though there are some places known as «Bitcoin islands» where groups of businesses banded together to create destinations for people to spend their Bitcoin fortunes.

«If some of these islands lose their capacity to do mosquito control, and the destruction from the storms creates opportunities for larger mosquito transmission,» Weaver said, we might see an uptick of the mosquito - borne diseases that circulate there, like dengue (which could spread beyond the Caribbean's borders as people travel to and from the islands, carrying the viruses with them).

Hurricane Maria smashed into Puerto Rico Wednesday as a Category 4 storm that is the worst to hit the island since a 1928 hurricane that killed 300 people.

At least one person has died in Guadeloupe due to the storm and two people are reported as missing off the coast of that island.

Over 3,000 people have been identified as staying in 78 collective centres across the island through IOM, the UN Migration Agency's displacement and needs tracking tool.

As of September 28, just over a week after Maria struck Puerto Rico, clean water, food, and fuel for generators were still hard to come by, most cell phone sites were out of service, and emergency officials struggled to distribute supplies throughout the island of 3.4 million people.

«They want everything to be done for them,» Mr. Trump griped, using the third - person plural to paint the entire island as a bunch of lazy, undeserving ingrates unwilling to lift a finger to help themselves.

In Inferno XXIX, Dante emphasizes this point by comparing counterfeiters, victims of a plague - like ailment in their eternal damnation, to those plague victims on the island of Aegina described by Ovid, who were replaced by «ant - people» — «secondo che i poeti hanno per fermo» (as the poets hold for certain).

Almost two million people call the 13 - mile - long island home, as many as 5 million can commute into the city every day and over 40 million tourists visit every year.

And some people may think Galveston is a dump — as only its true hometown citizens can say that truly — but it is one's own dump, and you can not speak otherwise if you're not what is called BOI, i.e., Born on the Island.

There is some evidence of their earlier more or less temporary residence in the Aegean Islands and Asia Minor; and they, or related «maritime people,» actually threatened twelfth - century Egypt, as we know from records of Ramses III (C. I 175 - 1144).

Many of the central characters of fantasy are country people, like those in Evangeline Walton's Mabinogion tales and other Welsh fantasies, The wizard Ged of Le Gum's Earthsea Trilogy is the son of a bronzesmith on a rustic island and is referred to as «goatherd.»

Hi Mark, well I was born in the Falkland Islands or as the people from Argentina prefer to call her the Malvinas I left there with my Mum when I was 7 and came to Old Blighty.

As if having a tsunami that has killed 272 people and left over 400 missing wasn't bad enough: 25 people have been confirmed dead by a volcanic eruption on another Indonesian island.

The Spanish occupation of the Philippines had as its primary objective the conversion of the peoples of those islands.

The Mass colony, however, was founded by devoutely religious Puritans who were seeking to create a perfect theocracy with religious freedom for their beliefs only (Roger Williams puchaced Rhode Island as a refuge for people banished by the Puritan theocracy).

such as the adat, mentioned above, that among the «people of the three times» of the island of Loinbok women are not allowed to inherit rice fields even though there is no such restriction in shari`a.

By the age of 17 I had been arrested multiple times, convicted of multiple crimes, had spent some time in Rikers Island — I wanted to die and take as many people with me as possible.

What I see here is the beauty of who we are as a people: Puerto Rico too had its share of immigrants, who brought their traditional foods and adapted the recipes to the island.

And as a Rhode Islander, I must mention what some people have referred to as «johnnycakes» above — johnnycakes in Rhode Island are very, very thin pancakes made of cornmeal, served with butter and syrup.

I make this: ground beef taco seasoning doritos shredded cheese (mexican) onion black olives chili beans thousand island dressing lettuce tomatoes its basically the same as all of you have been saying there was a potluck at a place where I worked and the lady brought the meat in a crockpot warm and added all the other ingredients when it was time to eat letting the people add their own doritos and dressing.

«A lot of people on the island are becoming a lot more educated about what they eat, and as a result are starting to shift into more organic foods,» he says.

The people of this island near Cancún in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula are peaceful descendants of fisherman and, some would say, pirates, as Isla Mujeres was once the home of the infamous pirate and slave trader Mundaca.

As people came from all over the world to live and work in the islands, they brought a demand for beverages from their native lands.

During hurricane season it is difficult for people in the «out islands» (those other than the main tourist islands) to fish or to boat over to Nassau to buy provisions such as meats.

Everyone can look forward to an authentic experience on departures such as Costa Rica: Southern Rainforest and Coastwith swimming and snorkeling with playful dolphins in the Caño Island Biological Reserve (from $ 4,298 per person), or Spain: Classic Camino de Santiago, a self - guided pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (from $ 3,998 per person).

So as the desperation of the people became clear — the 40 - block gas lines, the devastation on Staten Island, the anger building — we would have sacrificed the founding idea of unity if we had run it.»

The new home where he lives with his wife, Shaunie, and five children in the Star Island section of Miami («over on the causeway with all the foo - foo people,» as he calls it, which is close enough to frou - frou to count) is a short drive from AmericanAirlines Arena, affording him easy access to the team's training facility.

Some people develop a kind of claustrophobia known as island fever.

Of course, Sankaty Head will never be able to do anything about one of its natural hazards: the fog which rolls in off the sea on some late afternoons just to remind golfers and people all over Nantucket that they are on an island and, as the Indians were saying in the first place, far away — so wonderfully far away.

Having fun or not, there may be as many as 25,000 persons on the island at the peak of the season (the winter population is under 4,000), and the easygoing islanders have to adapt themselves to a whole new way of life for eight busy weeks.

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

Moroccans generally being Berber or Arab, Surinam being a country in South America (where the population is mixed between Indigenous people 2 %, East Indians 37 %, Chinese 8 %, people of African descent 10 %, Javanese 15 %, White 5 %, Creole 31 %) and the population of Aruba (as an example of the most populous Dutch Carribbean Island) having a population which is 80 % mixed white / Arawak.

Students entered the competition from all over the UK — including the Channel Islands — and submitted sample articles covering topics such as their personal experiences with disabilities, portraits of world - famous and local Paralympic athletes or activities for disabled people in their communities.

«Neither will we allow the people of these islands, no matter how they voted on June 23rd, to be presented as a reactionary, xenophobic mass whose only concern is somehow taking the UK back to a lost imperial age.

That is because even though 80 % of the peoples of theses islands live in England and pay taxes in England we are treated as second class citizens by a Scottish Cabal that holds the keys to the government and hate the English.

Britain has not been as insular an island as some people take it to be.

The congressman also told Louis that he had asked his political mentor, former Staten Island BP Guy Molinari, to remove himself and Rep. Nan Hayworth from the list of Romney's national GOP convention delegates long before the NYT stories broke, reasoning that they would have floor passes as House members and should make room for people without that privilege.

«Tonight, I believe that come November, the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn will choose to allow me to continue the work I've started as their independent voice in Washington fighting for better transportation and more jobs, strengthening national security and ensuring a thriving New York City economy and always doing what's right for the people of my district.»