Sentences with phrase «sea island of»

Did an innocent hypothetical by Eugene Volokh give rise to this lawsuit by three residents of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, asking an Athens court to block the Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece from using the term «lesbian» in its name?

The new power plant 15 kilometers (9 miles) off the North Sea island of Borkum is a masterpiece of German engineering.

Texel lamb comes from the North Sea island of Texel (pronounced tess - el) off the Dutch coast.

The section of the book set in the sea islands of South Carolina depicts eighteenth - century indigo plantations where African American slaves and overseers are left largely to their own devices during the «sick season» — a good half of the year.

In the graphics for Reedsy, you sometimes spot «cattails,» as we call them in the sea islands of South Carolina.

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In March of this year Energinet, along with TSOs from the Netherlands and Germany, signed a trilateral agreement relating to the development of a vast renewable electricity system, involving artificial islands, in the middle of the North Sea.

SuperShe Island is tucked away in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Finland.

It's easy to spot the Venetian Island of Burano from the sea.

The Daily Times of Salisbury, Maryland, reports that after Trump saw a CNN report about Tangier Island last summer, the president called Mayor James «Ooker» Eskridge to tell him he shouldn't worry about a rise in sea levels.

For example, interest in the Maldives — an island chain southwest of India that is fighting rising sea levels — jumped 68 percent from 2016 to 2017.

«Woody Island serves as the administrative and military center of China's presence in the South China Sea,» Gregory Poling, Center for Strategic and International Studies fellow and director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, told CNBC in a prior interview.

The U.S. Air Force said the B - 52s took off from Andersen Air Force Base on the U.S. Pacific island of Guam and «transited to the vicinity of the South China Sea» on Tuesday.

TOKYO (Reuters)- U.S. Air Force B - 52 bombers have carried out training in the «vicinity» of the South China Sea and the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, the Air Force said on Friday, in what a Chinese newspaper linked to China's drills near Taiwan.

Born on a Greek island near the Aegean Sea, where she perfected her martial arts skills under the tutelage of her blind sensei Stick, Elektra is a standout among comic book heroines.

ISLAY, Scotland (AP)-- It's said that Scotch tastes of the place where it is made, so Reavey's Bruichladdich Black Art single malt would offer a touch of barley, a splash of the sea, and a whiff of salt from the island of Islay, 140 miles west of Glasgow.

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

That could put Washington at odds with China, which claims most of the South China Sea and has alarmed its neighbors by building artificial islands and airports there, among other facilities.

China claims most of the South China Sea, an important trade route which is believed to contain large quantities of oil and natural gas, and has been building artificial islands on reefs, some with ports and air strips.

I pressed him on the issue of the islands in the East China Sea, known alternatively as the Diaoyu / Senkaku islands, at the center of a simmering conflict between China and Japan.

Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said the missile landed inside of Japan's special economic zone in the Sea of Japan, about 250 kilometers 155 miles) west of Aomori, which is on the northern part of Japan's main island of Honshu.

If your idea of a perfect day includes white sands, blue seas, and complimentary beach barbecues on a relatively quiet private island, Royal Caribbean International has you covered.

Many of us who follow climate change news are aware that Greenland's ice is melting away, the Antarctic is cracking, and some Pacific islands are going underwater as seas rise — all because we are pumping more greenhouse gases into the thin layer of atmosphere in which we live.

China has claimed virtually the entirety of the sea, and has moved missile systems and a military aircraft onto its man - made islands.

Ro and Rhodes are two of the hundreds of islands in the Aegean Sea that are controlled by Greece, but they are geographically closer to the Turkish mainland than to Athens.

From an environmental point of view it's six of one, half dozen of the other: the risk of a spill would be shared around the Salish Sea separating Vancouver Island from the mainland.

According to one theory, China's South China Sea island - building and its deployment of naval and air power in the area could signal that it is hoping to turn the entire zone into a Beijing - controlled «strategic strait.»

And, at the end of March, Russia announced intentions to deploy missiles and possibly construct naval bases on the Kuril Islands under its control, further militarizing the Sea of Okhotsk.

Within the sea is the Kuril Island chain, which links Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido with the Russian Kamchatka PeniIsland chain, which links Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido with the Russian Kamchatka Peniisland of Hokkaido with the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula.

China reiterated its sovereignty over the South China Sea area in response to Western reports of China's anti-ship cruise missiles and surface - to - air missile systems in the Nansha Islands, with an analyst saying that the US» appearances in the region are the reason for China's defensive constructions.

In this study, the effects of sea level rise (assumed to continue at present, at the time of the study, rates, which the authors noted was likely conservative), wave fetch, wind speed and direction were examined and the resultant erosion rate was estimated for the Western and Eastern shore of Uppands, Port Isobel and Tangier Island by selecting 10 points along the western and eastern shoreline of all the islands.

The U.S. and China diplomatic teams remain far apart on a host of issues including Chinese hacking that targets U.S. companies, China's buildup of islands in the South China Sea for military purpose, and the pressure American companies say they've faced in China over the past couple years.

That half a degree is the difference between low - lying island states surviving, or Arctic ice remaining over the North Pole in summer, or increasing the risk of losing the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet or Greenland ice sheet (either one of which implies an eight - metre sea level rise.)

U.S. Air Force B - 52 bombers have carried out training in the vicinity of the South China Sea and the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, the Air Force said on Friday, in what a Chinese newspaper linked to China's drills near Taiwan.

They hope to found banks that operate with digital currencies that are not issued by the government and from there open a sea of possibilities for all those investors who want to settle in Puerto Rico to benefit from the low tax policy offered by the island.

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Before the sea corridor between Turkey and Greek islands became a grave for hundreds of refugees in 2015, Evros had claimed at least 1,500 lives over the past 18 years.

Plans under way to pump oil using man - made islands in the Caspian Sea could cost a consortium that includes Exxon and Shell $ 40 billion, up from the original budget of $ 10 billion.

The group, which owns Norwegian Cruise Line, Regent Seven Seas and Oceania Cruises, has committed to matching up to $ 1.25 million of donations from its guests, team members, suppliers and partners in order to deliver early relief response for the Florida Keys and to rebuild «safe, resilient schools» in the Caribbean islands following the destruction caused by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

Thousands of Muslim fundamentalists trained and armed with automatic guns, had, she said, come from other parts in Indonesia, arriving by sea in the Malukus, once known as Spice Islands.

Just look at the plastic rubbish on one tiny little island in the South Pacific that doesn't have any human inhabitants, yet has collected 18 million tonnes of plastic waste just from the sea, despite being in the middle of nowhere.

The question becomes then, do we love the small island of knowledge more or do we care to sail the «sea of infinite mystery»?

And it was there in the warm South Seas — the other side of the world from the city where men like Fly were «pent up in lath and plaster, tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks» — that at age twenty - three he found Nature's own paradise on an island in the Marquesas and in the arms of a woman he fictionalized as «Fayaway» in Typee (1846), the scandalous first novel he wrote upon his return.

Chesterton told the story of «an English yachtsman who slightly miscalculated his course and discovered England under the impression that it was an island in the South Seas.»

Many are simply tired and confused by the endless demands for change and want the church to be an island of confident changelessness in the sea of secular confusion.

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.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were;...

During this journey, Paul covered the territory he had traversed in Asia Minor and in Europe on the earlier missions and stopped and preached at several new places as well, mostly ports of call at islands in the Ionian Sea.

treaties, we create islands of stability in an uncertain sea.

So let's do the thinking, strategizing and creative experimentation with small groups that is needed to develop islands of caring and growth in every part of the lonely sea which is our world.

Mechanized masses of men have invaded the southern seas, and up - to - date airfields have been permanently installed on what were until yesterday the poetically lost islands of Polynesia.

It was borne along past the river's mouth on to the Lesbian shore, nor had it suffered any change from the sea when the Muses found it and buried it in the sanctuary of the island.