Sentences with phrase «as sea island»

Traditional cotton such as Sea Island cotton is a long staple cotton, longer fibers mean softer, smoother cotton with higher tensile strength.

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«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.

China also has a dispute with Japan over the East China Sea Islands known as the Diaoyu Islands in China and the Senkaku Islands in Japan.

The submerged rock, known as Ieo Island, sits in disputed territory in the South China Sea.

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.

Today, Sea Tow's bright yellow boats are an iconic sight on both U.S. coasts, as well as in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Europe.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.

Out of the Spanish Reformation issued, as we shall see, a vast missionary movement which carried the faith to the Americas, Asia, and many of the islands of the sea.

For, was the surface of the earth even and level, and the middle parts of its islands and continents not mountainous and high as now it is, it is most certain there could be no descent for the rivers, no conveyance for the waters; but, instead of gliding along those gentle declivities which the higher lands now afford them quite down to the sea, they would stagnate and perhaps stink, and also drown large tracts of land.

In the most elaborate kind of this cooking in underground ovens, hot stones are put in with the food, as in the familiar South - Sea Island practice, which is too well known to need description.

The Caribbean is full of islands packed with gorgeous beaches and freshly caught fish, but the vibrant food scene in Barbados makes it stand out as a culinary destination unique to anywhere else in the sea.

Saaremaa Dairy Union is based in Estonia, and produces a variety of butters and cheeses that are influenced by the fact that the cows graze on a unique flora, as the company is located on an island in the Baltic Sea.

It's also a place where there's the potential for small scale regional conflict — political at this time — such as between China, Vietnam and Japan over the Spratley islands in the South China Sea and the known unknowns around political instability in nuclear - armed Pakistan and that nation's relationship to its nuclear - armed neighbour, India.

Guests can also enjoy activities such as biking, kayaking, golf, deep - sea fishing, sailing and lighthouse and Island tours, as well as many additional activities during their stay.

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.

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.

They are drawn to an island chain that is thought of as one of the last undeveloped places on Earth, famous for lush greenery and clear seas.

Where a low - tide elevation is situated wholly or partly at a distance not exceeding the breadth of the territorial sea from the mainland or an island, the low - water line on that elevation may be used as the baseline for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea.

As far as I know (from here) the standard way for Syrian refugees to enter Greece from Turkey has been to cross the sea covertly by boat to reach one of the Greek islands that are not far from the Turkish coasAs far as I know (from here) the standard way for Syrian refugees to enter Greece from Turkey has been to cross the sea covertly by boat to reach one of the Greek islands that are not far from the Turkish coasas I know (from here) the standard way for Syrian refugees to enter Greece from Turkey has been to cross the sea covertly by boat to reach one of the Greek islands that are not far from the Turkish coast.

The Harry Miller, a 50 - foot vessel that recently conducted surveys of the sea floor both in Gardiner's Bay and off the south shore of the Town of East Hampton, illustrates Deepwater Wind's engagement with stakeholders as the Rhode Island company...

Suffolk County police identified the man who died as Steven Nelson, a manager at the Legal Sea Foods restaurant at the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station on Long Island.

The Council Finance Committee chairman cited Superstorm Sandy as a factor in his decision, noting parts of his district (which includes Bensonhurst, Brighton Beach, Coney Island, Gravesend, and Sea Gate) were impacted and require «renewed focus and energy towards the recovery and rebuilding efforts.»

«As hunger deepens, we could see more Venezuelans fleeing by land or sea to an island,» Muchacho said.

Here, what we still call the lunar mare, or «seas,» are depicted as islands.

The WAIS is of great interest to researchers as two of its largest glaciers, Thwaites and Pine Island, are draining into the sea and contributing to sea - level rise.

Island nations threatened by sea level rise, such as the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific, have for years urged the IMO to push for a 100 percent emissions reduction by 2050 as the only strategy consistent with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels.

OFF the northernmost tip of Scotland, where the turbulent waters of the Atlantic Ocean meet those of the North Sea, sits a chain of 70 mostly uninhabited islands collectively known as Orkney.

As for the final deathblow — the killer that claimed the last holdouts isolated on the islands as sea levels rose — that may always remain a mysterAs for the final deathblow — the killer that claimed the last holdouts isolated on the islands as sea levels rose — that may always remain a mysteras sea levels rose — that may always remain a mystery.

Silver Award: Alex Kuffner The Providence Journal «Rising seas, rising stakes» Nov. 20, 2016 «Losing ground» March 19, 2017 «On the brink» July 9, 2017 Judges praised Alex Kuffner for his comprehensive look at the risks facing Rhode Island communities from either a once - in - a-century hurricane or a sea level rise of seven feet by the end of the century, as projected in a worst - case scenario by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Brendan Foley peels his wetsuit to the waist and perches on the side of an inflatable boat as it skims across the sea just north of the island of Crete.

The distance from the Luzon Strait to China is relatively short — compared to perhaps the Hawaiian internal wave that crosses the Pacific to Oregon — and the South China Sea is relatively free of obstructions such as islands, crosscurrents and eddies, Legg said.

Today, the icebergs that break off from Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are mostly large table - like blocks, which cause characteristic «comb - like» ploughmarks as these large multi-keeled icebergs grind along the sea floor.

They found that, as seas warmed at the end of the last ice age, Pine Island Glacier retreated to a point where its grounding line — the point where it enters the ocean and starts to float — was perched precariously at the end of a slope.

As global sea level rises, low - lying island nations must reckon how to cope not only with loss of agricultural acreage and increased vulnerability to storms, but also with reduced habitat for endemic species

During some years, up to as many as 12,000 green sea turtles aggregate around Raine Island to lay eggs on the beach, which offers scientists a natural laboratory to compare the movements and behaviours of the turtles and tiger sharks during a time when sea turtle concentrations are higher than average.

These include why the maps always have the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea at the top, even though it is not north; why the Mediterranean is pictured as a bulbous form with shores that mirror one another; why the sea's islands are lined up on the central axis of the map; and moSea at the top, even though it is not north; why the Mediterranean is pictured as a bulbous form with shores that mirror one another; why the sea's islands are lined up on the central axis of the map; and mosea's islands are lined up on the central axis of the map; and more.

On this spring day on Maryland's eastern shore, they were on a field trip to Assateague Island, measuring the slope of the beach as the first step in a lesson on sea - level rise.

As the seas evaporated, hard - packed sand replaced water around the hundreds of islands that had dotted the sea and had provided a haven for wildlife.

Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal to be burned (8 February, p 7), why don't they send it to an island country that needs it because of rising sea levels caused by climate change, such as Tuvalu in Polynesia?

Therefore they provide important information about the evolutionary timing of submarine volcanos, from inception through to emergence above the sea as they become volcanic islands.

While the overall distribution of white sharks is very broad, ranging from Newfoundland to the British Virgin Islands and from the Grand Banks to the Gulf of Mexico as far west as the Texas coast, 90 percent of the animals recorded in this study were found along the East Coast roughly between the Florida Keys and northern Caribbean Sea to Nova Scotia, Canada.

In 360 BC, he wrote a book whose characters describe Atlantis as an island bigger than «Libya» and «Asia» together, which existed 9000 years earlier «in front of the Pillars of Hercules» that flank the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.

Deposits from past submarine slides also reveal new insights into the development of volcanic islands as they grow under the sea.

As the island rose upward out of the sea, volcanoes formed along its spine, with basins of shallow water between them.