Sentences with phrase «of nearby countries»

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Parmentier planted 100 acres of potatoes outside Paris and kept the crop under heavy guard, a strategy that convinced nearby villagers (and ultimately the entire country) that the starchy, misshapen lumps were desirable.

They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

The ensuing war has led to millions of Syrians leaving the country in search of safe refuge in nearby countries like Turkey, Greece and Italy.

WASHINGTON, April 19 - The United States and Colombia on Thursday cited new evidence of fraud in Venezuela's food import program for the needy, saying part of the funds often ended up in the hands of corrupt government officials after being funneled through businesses in nearby countries.

Yet while convenience may be driving travel patterns, there's one nearby country conspicuously missing from both Ctrip's and Trivago's lists of top travel destinations for the year: South Korea.

CVS / pharmacy (CVS) recently unveiled a smartphone app that displays nearby locations of 970 MinuteClinics across the country.

Besides miles and miles of storage lockers of various sizes, all running along corridors named for nearby Etobicoke streets, it will feature a world - class wine - storage centre with an on - site sommelier, as well as sharp - looking lounge spaces for tasting parties — «a kind of country - club set - up,» Creighton says.

95 percent of the accounts operated in Russian and targeted Russia or Russian - speakers in nearby countries including Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.

Some of the cheapest gas prices in the country typically appear in the Rocky Mountain region due to cheaper crude prices and refinery costs — and most of the state's oil is sourced locally or in nearby states, according to the U.S. Energy Administration.

They quickly opened and operated a restaurant in the town of Cotacachi while finding time to travel throughout the country and to other nearby nations.

Recipients can then cash out their wallet balance to their bank account in any of our supported countries or find an Abra Teller nearby if they need or prefer to withdraw physical cash.

Across the country, many Black and Latino neighborhoods may lack full - service grocery stores and banks; but a profusion of predatory lenders always seem to be nearby.

But another nearby locale has emerged as a national platform for such skirmishes: the stately campus of Georgetown University, the country's oldest Roman Catholic college.

Seventy - five years ago, on Sunday, September 15, 1940, Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine were driven from the prime minister's country house, Chequers, to the nearby village of Uxbridge: a Royal Air Force station and the headquarters from which Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park was directing the RAF's No. 11 Group against the onslaught of the German Luftwaffe in southern England.

Seventy - five years ago, on Sunday, September 15, 1940, Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine were driven from the prime minister's country house, Chequers, to the nearby village of Uxbridge: a Royal Air Force station and the headquarters from which Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park was directing....

«We fully agree that these are of the same species and type which might have migrated to other nearby states and countries including Bangladesh and Srilanka where this chilli continued to be known as Naga Mircha («Naga Moresh»).

For an afternoon or evening of wine or beer tasting, guests can take private tours to nearby Temecula Valley Wine Country or to explore Temecula's thriving craft - beer scene or charter a hot - air balloon flight over the valley and vineyards below to curate the most bucket - list friendly getaway.

We have Watsonville nearby, which makes the claim of being the artichoke capital of the country, so we have good growing conditions for them.

Malone's father, Hall - of - Famer Karl, is a self - professed country boy who went to nearby Louisiana Tech for basketball.

But at the end of the day, a Texas bowl is going to take a Texas (or nearby) team over a team halfway across the country.

One day 10 years ago, a friend of his who was the pro at a nearby country club told Reid he thought there might be a lot of balls in one of the course's water hazards.

When the directors of the 1959 Pan American Games set about buying a track for installation at Soldier Field in Chicago two years ago they not only found that there were no major track builders, as such, in the country, but that the few good U.S. tracks in existence seemed to be the result of pure luck — the Los Angeles Coliseum, for example, got its ancient but revered brick - dust track, the story goes, because a building was being demolished nearby and a Coliseum official suddenly had the bright idea that the crushed bricks would make a good running surface.

Monty, making the rounds in the Boston area ahead of this week's U.S. Senior Open, regaled a group of golfers at Renaissance Golf Club on the eve of his early - morning tee time at nearby Salem Country Club and had them rolling in the aisles with tales of the over-50 set and Ryder Cup victories and defeats.

The manager was just another old country boy, and when he saw a covey of quail nearby, he blasted away.

The hands that made him fit belonged to 81 - year - old Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, the Belair Stud trainer, who spent the last days before the race shuffling back and forth between one end of Barn A and his living quarters at nearby Olympia Fields Country Club — sandwiching between trips a flood of radio and television appearances and more than one breakfast and luncheon press conference with newsmen on hand from California, New York, Florida and all stations along the way.

Cary officials have invited Town and Country Homes back for a second round of discussions about developing a 333 - acre former mink farm into a golf course community, which could keep a nearby parcel of land from becoming a gravel pit unwanted by many neighbors.

And then I come home and see the beauty of our culturally diverse neighborhood; projects yes, but a dozen countries represented, children tearing about in the nearby parks hollering at each other in a dozen different languages, and I know our multi-cultural-ministry hearts are planted here for a reason.

The so - called «terra dei fuochi», the «fire country» between Naples and nearby Caserta has been notorious for decades for uncontrolled deposits of toxic waste that have been blamed for unusually...

Even if you can't make one of the country's best fall hiking trails, you may be able to find something nearby that's easy to walk and offers good scenery.

It could mean that Jobbik or some of Jobbik's members wanted to help the nationalist ideas in a nearby country.

It might also have pursued destabilisation of more nearby West - aligned countries.

Of course, it could also have negative consequences, like people in the nearby countries being angry with the country who sold land, because it brought another country's military much closer to them.

Trump pushed for Japan to buy «massive» amounts of military equipment from the U.S., saying that it would help the country shoot down missiles like those nearby North Korea fired overhead in recent months.

UK haulage companies, he said, «are being driven out of business as they face higher taxes here than in nearby countries such as Ireland».

They also estimated IQ for another 104 countries by averaging the IQs of nearby nations.

Later, explore the nearby Country Music Hall of Fame, the world's largest museum of popular music, whose vast collections of recordings, instruments, costumes, and memorabilia are presented in artfully designed exhibits that capture the colorful history of country music and the artists who've shaCountry Music Hall of Fame, the world's largest museum of popular music, whose vast collections of recordings, instruments, costumes, and memorabilia are presented in artfully designed exhibits that capture the colorful history of country music and the artists who've shacountry music and the artists who've shaped it.

The study also focuses attention on Texas and nearby states as a source of nearly a quarter of the country's human - related methane emissions.

In October 2009 the government of Italy announced that a wreck discovered off the southwestern tip of the country is the Catania, a passenger vessel sunk during World War I — and not the Cunski, a cargo ship loaded with radioactive waste, as alleged by district authorities from nearby Calabria.

«There is a lot of variability like this in east and Southeast Asia, so [there is] lots of opportunity for an epidemic in one country to seed an epidemic in another nearby country and then flow out of the region,» Smith says.

The second thing we did, and I'm really pleased to tell you that as awful as this has been for the countries involved, and it has been and remains awful when it happens, we invested specifically in the nearby countries: Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, to make sure it didn't go further and create a global emergency that just the scope of which would overwhelm all of our public health efforts.

The specter of CWD has also alarmed the European Food Safety Authority, which released a report in January recommending that seven nearby countries all begin 3 - year sampling programs.

Indeed, the country has reportedly sent hundreds of hackers into nearby countries to raise money for the regime.

Often called the Third Pole due to how much ice and snow accumulates there, the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau are the source of major rivers in nearby countries and changes to them can affect the largest populations in China and India.

Provo has some of the highest air - pollution levels in the country — especially in the winter, due to an inversion effect caused by nearby mountains.

This UN video discusses the effects of Arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh (and other nearby countries in SE Asia).

And at least in the nearby areas of Ontario there are a lot of place names from the Olde Country.

Spend your days hiking the nearby mountains or on one of the dozens of outdoor brewery patios in the city before driving the quick 30 minutes out to Red Rocks to experience a concert in one of the country's most famous venues.

Caribbean — A tourist on the Caribbean island country of St. Maarten was killed Wednesday after a blast from a jet that was taking off nearby knocked her into a retaining wall, police said.

A downside of the search's simplicity is that matches are found for you based on country or state, rather than ZIP or post code which makes it hard to narrow down results to those that are realistically nearby.

That will all have to wait, though, once a blackout hits and a foreign siege manage to invade their town and much of the country the following morning, leaving Jed and Matt to marshal the forces of fellow fugitives in the nearby wilderness.