Sentences with phrase «island people from»

The lock hospitals are part of a wider history of medical incarceration, as exemplified by Fantome Island, which also housed a leprosarium for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people from 1940 - 73.

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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.

Thiel, who also supports the idea of creating autonomous islands on which people could live and create their own laws, said he is in favor of a bi-partisan bill called the «Intimate Privacy Protection Act,» which would make it illegal to distribute explicit private images without a person's consent, and would involve criminal penalties for those who profit from doing so.

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has yet to recover fully from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria, which in late September knocked out power to the entire island and left all 3.4 million residents of the U.S. territory in the dark and killed dozens of people.

From the late 1960s through the early»70s, the denizens of this tiny Pacific island were the wealthiest people on the planet per capita, due to the dense and valuable guano deposits left on the island by fish - eating seabirds over a period of eons.

Puerto Rico avoided a direct hit from Irma, but the storm knocked out power for 70 percent of the island, and killed at least three people.

She's chartered three planes to bring volunteers and supplies to Puerto Rico, and brought more than 100 people from the island to the mainland.

However, most people don't realize that the Sisters» platinum - selling success was 10 years in the making: starting in the early 1970s, the band began a har - fought journey that included headlining every club within 100 miles of New York City, from New Jersey bowling alleys to Long Island beach bars.

A lack of «quality, affordable rental housing, mixed - use development, and public transit» has led to young people from Long Island to move elsewhere, Bellone wrote.

(A New York Times analysis of the same data from Puerto Rico's Vital Statistics System also found that in the 42 days after the storm hit, 1,052 more people than usual died across the island.)

«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).

Long Island construction jobs fall slightly The latest report from the Associated General Contractors of America found that 74,100 people were employed in construction on Long Island in January.

Perhaps the worst blow from Maria was the 150 mph winds that knocked down 80 percent of the island's power transmission lines and 85 percent of its cellphone towers, leaving people in the dark and struggling to contact each other.

-- Introduce your business to thousands of potential customers in the entire market area of Cape Cod, the Islands, and the South Shore — Influence the buying decisions of thousands of potential customers — Speak to people who will make a decision to buy your product or service this week — Create a consistent flow of new customer opportunities via foot traffic, phone calls, website traffic, e-newsletter sign ups, social media engagement — Tell «the story» of your business — Differentiate your business from your competitors — Encourage customer loyalty — Educate past customers on why they should come back and do business with you again — Grow your market share — Make your business a household name and create top of mind awareness — Build the credibility of your business — Control the public's perception of your business

The island avoided a direct hit from Hurricane Irma earlier this month, but was still lashed with rain and heavy winds that left nearly 900,000 people without power.

And from Bangladesh to the Pacific islands, rising seas are swallowing land and forcing people from their homes.

Outside of that 60 day window it's unclear how humanitarian help will make it to the island, where already people are dying from heat and stand at risk from the lack of safe drinking water.

If there were, I'd bet he'd sound more like GOOFY from Disney... and act more like Gilligan since he seems to want to give people cancer, let them lose their homes, get mugged, killed, etcetera... and not get their dreams (of getting off the island for example).

Of all the people who moved to the continental US from the Caribbean island in the past four months, more than 300,000 settled in Florida alone, according to the Sunshine State's division of emergency management.

Mary Cahill of Jersey, Channel Islands, who founded Jersey Catholic Youth, establishing a youth ministry that ranges from «Praise and Play» for toddlers to Confirmation groups, and a «Spirit on the Rock» Festival for people in their teens and twenties.

«Though this can happen in the supposed «desert island» situation,» where an individual reads the Bible all alone,» he says, «it normally comes about through the work of God's people, from those who translated and published the Bible itself (even on a desert island, one is dependent on others!)

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).

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.

It tells of a Roman Catholic community on an offshore island in which the people have behaved so badly that the bishop withdraws the priest from the parish, and for a time deprives the entire community of the Mass..

In the West Brighton section of Staten Island, small groups of people walk across the street from the project buildings into the parking lot of New Hope Community Church, where they dodge basketballs whizzing by before congregating in a beautifully renovated building that was a staging area for an underground pit bull fighting ring up until a few years ago.

Overseas it was largely, although by no means entirely, in lands in which British missions, from related Protestant denominations, were active; in islands, the Philippines and Puerto Rico, which had come under the flag of the United States; in Japan, which the United States had led in opening to the outside world; in Hawaii, with which the commerce of the United States had provided contacts; and in Latin America, where geographic propinquity and the common possession of alleged republican institutions had nourished in the people of the United States an emotional interest.

Islam Nusantara emphasizes that Indonesia is a country and people shaped by islands, coasts, ports, trade, and travel that over millennia have learned from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, and many other influences.

Just two hundred years from now the Hawaiian Islands would have to support fifty million people.

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Together J and I went to great local restaurants, bought produce from excellent local farms, went to bonfires, went to the beach, cooked and ate meals together, spent both Halloween and New Years partying at the Surf Pub, and made many connections with great people here on this tiny island.

Some say that people brought the pepper from Minorca, a Mediterranean island off the coast of Spain, in the 18th century.

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.

Let me get this out of the way, since it's the first thing people ask about M. Wells: From Grand Central Station, take a Queens - bound 7 train two stops to Hunters Point Avenue in Long Island City.

«These two catastrophic hurricanes have devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, forcing families there to rely on the support from people around the world,» said Stiller.

President of Australian Dairy Farmers, Noel Campbell, says it wants more access to seasonal workers from the Pacific Islands and also people on holiday visas.

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).

The Taste of the Islands festival takes place from 6:30 — 9 pm and ticketsare US$ 40 per person.

In case some of the Arsenal fans from across the across the pond aren't familiar with who Stan Kroenke truly is... He bought a ranch half the size of Rhode Island and then evicted numerous elderly and disabled people.

For instance, there are sports people whose astronomical talents justified everything ever written about them who ended up in the right place at the right time: Pele bubbling up from soccer - mad Brazil; Michael Jordan being born in basketball - mad North Carolina; Usain Bolt coming from Jamaica at a time when the island's track program is dominating the world and was a perfect vehicle for his nearly perfect talent.

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.

This is where the truth train rumbles through the various kitchens of dozens of innocent - seeming, allegedly quaint Rhode Island restaurants and demands honesty from a state that has withheld it from people for too long.

I went on to Peleliu in the Palau Islands and later had a letter from the Ulithi program people telling me how Gordon McLendon, then an intelligence officer in the Navy, had showed up one day offering to do a game.

You are doing a good job, and you encourage me because I feel like an island of AP parenting alone in my area, surrounded by gallons of formula, babies scarred from CIO, and people spanking right in front of me.

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.

«If you have any problems with the people from the Cayman Islands, I think you might want to address it to them,» Bloomberg said.

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.

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.

A sanctuary movement focused on shielding from deportation immigrants who are in the United States illegally is gaining strength on Long Island, with clergy and lay people pledging to resist federal officials trying to send such immigrants back to their homelands.

Gov. David Paterson returned from Staten Island to Manhattan by ferry and said people «should not even hesitate to use it» after the crash.

He was referring to his main competitor, Adriano Espaillat, a state senator from the Washington Heights section of Manhattan who would be the first from the Caribbean island in Congress if he wins the four - person race (there's no Republican running).