Sentences with phrase «as the island lost»

The TVs all worked and, as the island lost power while we were there, we were glad to have the generator.

Not exact matches

The sprouting of these islands of legality, observers predict, will spur other states to open up their cannabis markets lest they lose out on revenue and tourism, much as the casino gambling pioneered in Las Vegas became ubiquitous across the continent.

Long Island's population has also been relatively stagnant too, as the region steadily loses its youth.

«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).

With Rhode Island losing at St. Bonaventure Friday night, the America East's Vermont Catamounts entered the weekend as the final team chasing league perfection.

«Los Angeles has been doing just fine without football for the last decade; there has not been a mass exodus from Seattle after the Sonics left; the Long Island suburbs will not go vacant with the Islanders moving to Brooklyn, just as they survived the Nets leaving; Montreal has shown no ill effects after losing the Expos while the Nationals decidedly did NOT put DC «on the map»»...

Greece losing to the Faroe Islands is just as odd as them winning the Euro Championship back in 2004.

Pep Guardiola retired, became a manager and won 3 league titles Took a year out, returned and won 2 more Maureen has won 6 league titles Zlatan has won 9 as a player Facebook was invented, youtube was invented, twitter was invented, the iPhone was invented And finally, Claudio Ranieri was sacked 5 times, lost to the Faroe Islands, and Joined Leicester... and is now 3 points away from this title.

«Neither will we allow the people of these islands, no matter how they voted on June 23rd, to be presented as a reactionary, xenophobic mass whose only concern is somehow taking the UK back to a lost imperial age.

Gentile first entered public office as a state senator representing parts of Brooklyn and Staten Island in 1997, but lost his seat to then - Councilman Martin Golden in 2002.

There's been speculation for some time that DeFrancisco might be mulling retirement from the Senate, and that talk intensified when he lost his bid to lead the GOP conference to Long Island Sen. John Flanagan, who, for what it's worth, has also been mentioned as a potential gubernatorial contender in 2018.

A source close to the assemblyman tried to paint Ackerman as the interloper in the newly - drawn district, insisting the Long Island resident long ago lost his Queens cred.

Since returning to the Island, Murphy has lived with his father, who lost his seat in Congress and did prison time as a result of the Abscam scandal.

Again, I hope he gets his wish, cause then the Republicans would become an irrelevant minority in the State Senate as well as they lost seats in Western Long Island and what little they have left in Brooklyn, and the Grisanti seat, which would revert back to the Dems.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. named Joan Illuzzi as special counsel nearly two months after Illuzzi lost her bid to become Staten Island's district attorney.

As of 11:30 p.m. last night, more than 40,000 customers throughout Long Island had lost electricity as a result of the storm, PSEG Long Island saiAs of 11:30 p.m. last night, more than 40,000 customers throughout Long Island had lost electricity as a result of the storm, PSEG Long Island saias a result of the storm, PSEG Long Island said.

Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto said that the net impact of the state - aid cuts - the amount of money Long Island schools would lose as a portion of their overall budgets - is closer to 2.1 percent and that the statewide average is 2.9 percent.

Mr. Donovan has won his post as Staten Island prosecutor by overwhelming majorities every four years since 2003, though he lost his 2010 bid to become state attorney general to Democrat Eric Schneiderman.

Glenn R. Rink, the chief executive of AbTech Industries, likened an email from a Glenwood Management executive to a «death threat»: If Adam Skelos, who was working at AbTech as a consultant, didn't get a raise, then AbTech could lose out on a $ 12 million storm water treatment contract on Long Island.

The Oysterponds school district in Orient, one of the smallest schools in the state, is the only district on Long Island that failed to have its teacher evaluation plan approved by Thursday's deadline and is expected to lose some state aid as a result of not having an approved - plan in place.

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).

Over a 16 - year period, about half of the orangutans living on the island of Borneo were lost as a result of changes in land cover.

Today, as warming waters caused by climate change flow underneath the floating ice shelves in Pine Island Bay, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glaciers.

Kauai lost at least eight species of honeycreepers — as well as several other «marvelous species» of birds, James notes — before people began keeping good records of the island's fauna.

The hihi is one of the world's most evolutionarily unique birds, classed as the only member of its own family, and were lost from New Zealand's North Island by around 1895 because of introduced predators such as rats, habitat loss due to farming and disease.

Finding such a plethora of frogs — despite the fact that Sri Lanka has already lost 95 percent of its original rain forest habitat — puts the island's amphibian diversity on par with that of tropical islands nearly 10 times its size, such as Borneo and Madagascar.

Undisturbed Hawaiian rain forests are often dominated by the ohia tree (Metrosideros polymorpha), but these slow - growing native trees are losing ground to newcomers, such as the tropical ash (Fraxinus uhdei) and the Canary Island fire tree (Morella faya).

Last week, the archbishop of San Juan, Roberto Gonzalez Nieves, stated that Puerto Rico should never become a state, and that if it did, the island would lose its culture, language and identity as a «people.»

For all of you that are a little lost as to where the title of this post came from (along with the first line of this post haha) well it is from a song that instantly got stuck in my head when I started searching for similar «lime moto jackets» in google... Shwayze's «Corona + Lime»... a summer hit circa 2009 (hey maybe my brother «Pop Culture Died in 2009 «is right... the best stuff was from 2009 or earlier:p BTW these photos are a little flashback to Long Island days with my little bro... he shot these < 3) Anyways, this lime look had me signing that song all night long while writing this post... especially the part where they sing «If you are looking for love put your hands up `... here's a secret for ya... my hand it raised

As Jason Brody, players will slash, sneak, detonate and shoot their way across the island in a world that has lost all sense of right and wrong.

One of the best things about Treasure Planet is that it puts several twists on the original story, such as changing the parrot to being an alien called Morph; the crazy Ben Gunn becomes a robot who lost his memory banks; and the alien characteristics imbedded into the familiar characters also loosened its ties to Treasure Island.

WRECKED (single camera) Pickes up to series STUDIO: TBS TEAM: Justin Shipley (w), Jordan Shipley (w), Jesse Hara LOGLINE: Described as Lost meets It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, it chronicles the aftermath of a plane crashing on a remote island.

Escape Dead Island has a fairly liberal checkpoint system though, so I never found myself with too much time lost, and certainly not as much time lost as some of the unbalanced later encounters in the game that were only beaten through enemies getting stuck, about 45 rounds of shotgun ammo fired wildly in no certain direction, and perhaps my wife doing some kind of voodoo magic so that I would stop cursing at the TV.

But then, towards the end, the film loses focus as we leave the lifeboat, first to visit a strange floating island inhabited by meerkats (why meerkats?)

Centering around a group of dogs who live on a remote island — due to an executive decree stating that all canine pets of Megasaki City must be exiled to a garbage dump known as Trash Island — Atari then ultimately finds himself in search of his lost pup, island — due to an executive decree stating that all canine pets of Megasaki City must be exiled to a garbage dump known as Trash Island — Atari then ultimately finds himself in search of his lost pup, Island — Atari then ultimately finds himself in search of his lost pup, Spots.

The pack includes the — ahem — pack of dogs who help guide the young injured pilot Atari Kobayashi (Koyu Rankin) as he searches for his lost dog Spots (Liev Schreiber) on Trash Island.

Jurassic Park III: A mysterious potential benefactor (William H. Macy) arrives at one of Dr Alan Grant's (Sam Neill) dinosaur fossil digs in Montana to offer him a large financial sum to support his research, if he would just be his guide on an aerial tour of the dinosaur island featured in The Lost World, as a gift to his wife.

The planet destroyer Steppenwolf (Ciaran Hinds) has descended from the interstellar unknown and laid waste to both the hidden island of Themyscira and the lost underwater city of Atlantis in search of powerful artifacts known as «Mother Boxes,» a third one buried in the bowels of the earth by mankind 5,000 years ago the last remaining key that will help this demon cover the world in fire and darkness.

As expected, the bulk of quests have been about fetching materials that are required to help send out a distress signal, finding lost relatives, or gathering food and survival supplies for survivors holed up in one of the island's few «safe» areas.

For someone like me, unfamiliar with the SpongeBob universe, the movie opens with a beautifully scripted live - action prologue that introduces the pirate Burger Beard as he steals a mysterious book from a booby - trapped island shrine (shades of Raiders of the Lost Ark).

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams fills two voids: a sequel that's as good as the original and a worthwhile family film.

While not nearly so carefully - constructed as the first film, Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams made me feel taken care of in the cosily nostalgic way of Saturday afternoon creature - features on local television, where you could count on seeing an old Godzilla or a classic Harryhausen.

As glaciers and ice caps melt, Louisiana is losing land to the sea and barrier islands are gradually slipping beneath the watery surface, drowned by a slowly rising tide, a process suggested by the cover photo.

But not everything is lost as Thomas Risse - Kappen (1995) argues, «while democracies do not seem to be inherently more peaceful than autocratic regimes, there is nevertheless an island of peace in an ocean of conflict and wars».

It got so bad for the unions that the one Republican they backed — Allen Fung for governor of Rhode Island — lost to Democrat Gina Raimondo who, as treasurer, worked to rein in out - of - control public employee pension spending.

Amazon and HBG will now resume normal trading, with Hachette books being «prominently featured in promotions», although some HBG titles - such as Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath and Preston and Lee Child's The Lost Island - are currently still showing as being out of stock or subject to delays in delivery times.

The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime As a former literary editor for Outside magazine, author Miles Harvey knows a thing or two about the importance of maps when it comes to defining a subject.

Mr. Preston and Lincoln Child's thriller «The Lost Island» was described as taking as long as four weeks.

In the end, though, it doesn't seem enough across the boards, as it looks like Konan loses, Kisame escapes, and Kabuto begins to aim his army at the island.

It is described as The Jungle Book crossed with Lost, tells the story of a mysterious island research facility and the animals and humans who live on it.