Sentences with phrase «abandon the island after»

1) Barbuda's 1,600 inhabitants were forced to abandon the island after Hurricane Irma hit: It's not an overstatement to say that Hurricane Irma annihilated Barbuda, the Caribbean island with 1,600 inhabitants that forms a country along with Antigua southeast of Puerto Rico.

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After initially endorsing former Long Island congressman Rick Lazio for governor, the Queens County Republican Party reversed its decision last month in favor of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, who abandoned the Democratic Party to run as a Republican.

Tradition holds that the historical Arthur was one of the leaders of a band of Romano - British left behind after the Empire abandoned the island.

After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales.

The stage for this After Party is an abandoned prison island near the bay, known to the lunatic racers and ravers as The Rock.

For Solar, French artist Camille Henrot (b. 1978, France) presents Million Dollars Point (2011), a film originally shot in Santo Island, Vanuatu, in the South Pacific, an island known for an underwater cemetery for hundreds of tanks and canons abandoned by the U.S. Army after World WIsland, Vanuatu, in the South Pacific, an island known for an underwater cemetery for hundreds of tanks and canons abandoned by the U.S. Army after World Wisland known for an underwater cemetery for hundreds of tanks and canons abandoned by the U.S. Army after World War II.

After Stony Island failed, Southmoore State Bank and Guaranty Bank & Trust occupied the space, but since the 1980s it stood abandoned, a last testament of a bygone era of Stony Island as a center of life and commerce.

THEASTER GATES Chicago Reader, Oct. 1 - 7, 2015 After purchasing an abandoned bank from the city of Chicago for $ 1, artist Theaster Gates has transformed the 17,000 square foot building into the Stony Island Arts Bank, a cultural arts center.

Nearly fifty years after it was initiated, Hartt returns to the sites of Habitat Puerto Rico: the original wooded hillside of the Bosque Urbano de San Patricio; the alternate site for the project at Berwyn Farm in the Carolina municipality, just east of San Juan (where construction started after the original site was deemed untenable); and a number of remote sites around the island where modules have been abandoned or repurposed.