Sentences with phrase «by sea island»

The elegant peaches - and - cream - flavored wedding cake by Sea Island from a Georgia wedding was topped with dainty sugar flowers inspired by the bride's Elie Saab wedding dress.

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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.

And baby names with watery meanings include Margot («pearl»), Isla («island»), Kai («sea») and Marlowe («from the hill by the lake»).

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.

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.

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.

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.

The stunning plunge in sales comes after Japan last month nationalized tiny islands in the East China Sea, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, which had already been controlled by Tokyo but also claimed by Beijing.

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.

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.

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;...

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.

Surrounding the somewhat recalcitrant materials of community and religious culture are the far less easily mastered elements of the natural world, which in «The Island» is represented by the light, the wind and the sea.

By the time visible unity is restored to the church, the community of active committed Christians may have been reduced in size and influence to a quite insignificant island in a vast secular sea.

In the island, again, called the island of Dioscorides [Socotora], which is situated in the same Indian sea, and where the inhabitants speak Greek, having been originally colonists sent thither by the Ptolemies who succeeded Alexander the Macedonian, there are clergy who receive their orders in Persia and are sent on to the island, and there is also a multitude of Christians.

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.

One of 5 salt islands on the Louisiana coast, Avery Island stands at 163 feet above mean sea level and is surrounded by low - lying swamps and marshes.

Some festival highlights include a Southern Soul Barbeque Alfresco dinner, a Reserve Wine Tasting with Sea Island Sommelier Jacob Cragg, Specialty Cooking Classes led by local and regional talent and the Local Flavors Tasting Tent and Culinary Stage.

Since these islands are surrounded by water, the beautiful Caribbean Sea, fish and other seafoods, like crab are always plentiful.

Gilbertia is an island anywhere in the South Seas with a fine natural harbor, which is populated almost exclusively by athletes and fighter pilots.

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.

Grenada, Carriacou & Petite Martinique are three beautiful islands in the Windward chain of islands, threaded by the Caribbean Sea, connecting North and South America.

Hunting Island State Park 2555 Sea Island Pkwy., Hunting Island, S.C. 843-838-2011 southcarolinaparks.com/huntingisland/introduction.aspx For those who want their beach camping experience punctuated by palm trees, Spanish moss and subtropical breezes, consider Hunting Island State Park near Beaufort, S.C..

Our avian research was generously supported by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Foundation M, Island Foundation, Nuttall Ornithological Club, A. J. Stout Foundation, Minerals Management Service, Sea Duck Joint Venture Program, and the Wild Waterbirds Conservancy.

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 coast.

[1] While the fence, even during its construction, cut arrivals of illegal immigrants by land down, these outdated measures of control and deterrence have simply diverted immigration flows to the sea and the Greek islands of the Aegean.

He said no fewer than five million people living in the Lake Chad Basin countries had been displaced by the depletion of the lake due to climate change, noting that the shrinkage of Lake Chad, a former island sea, had resulted in increased social conflicts, high rates of migration and cross border movements.

Rechhia represents the 47th District, which includes Brighton Beach, Coney Island, and Sea Gate, which were all devastated by the storm.

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

Dow also pointed to activities taken by officials at Folly Beach, South Carolina, an island which has faced erosion due to changing sea levels.

More importantly, when the islands sank by a meter, the sea swallowed much of the former coastline.

To that end, new evidence supports a theory that some experts once considered unlikely: namely, that the forerunners of Madagascar's modern mammals reached the island millions of years ago by drifting from the African mainland across the Mozambique Channel on giant rafts of vegetation ripped from the shore and launched out to sea by violent storms.

While perhaps more mundane than the megaboulders (found only locally on Eleuthera), the sedimentological structures found within chevron ridge and runup deposits across islands throughout the Bahamas and Bermuda point to frequent and repeated inundation by powerful storm waves, in some locations leaving storm deposits tens of meters above sea level.

But Russia is often connected to Svalbard by continuous sea ice and the predominant southeasterly winds blow from there toward these islands.

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.

E. holgeri's larger ancestors probably waded out to an island, were trapped by rising sea levels, and shrank to survive.

You, oddly enough, live on an island that is completely unreachable by sea or air, so I can't deliver my car by shipping it to you directly.

According to a report released by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in June, rising sea levels will probably make the low - lying islands uninhabitable.

The islands are occupied mainly by plants, reptiles, and birds, with only sea lions and a few thousand human residents — currently living in the 3 percent of the region that isn't protected national parkland — to represent the mammals.

If global warming permanently crosses that threshold, it will likely cause small island states to be swallowed by the sea, coral to die and heat waves to become more common and severe.

At the time of the dinosaurs, the island would have been at the bottom of the sea and the mountains surrounding Beardmore Glacier would have been low - lying riverbeds, eventually shoved skyward by tectonic activity.

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).

By 1998, satellites revealed that Pine Island Glacier in the Amundsen Sea Embayment was retreating.

Now, with the island facing the prospect of rising seas and rising debt, the government has embarked on a campaign to cut its crippling food bill by encouraging local production.

«Today, the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are grounded in a very precarious position, and major retreat may already be happening, caused primarily by warm waters melting from below the ice shelves that jut out from each glacier into the sea,» said Matthew Wise of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute, and the study's first author.

More than 12,000 years ago, Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers were grounded on top of a large wedge of sediment, and were buttressed by a floating ice shelf, making them relatively stable even though they rested below sea level.

Computer simulations of 4,000 storms suggested that without nourishment, a tropical storm or hurricane and sea level rise would reduce Santa Rosa Island's beach by 97 percent to 100 percent by the year 2100.

In the sea of graphene (over an iridium crystal), electrons» spin - orbit interaction is much lower than that created by intercalating a Pb island.

After the mercifully uninhabited island had exploded into the stratosphere and collapsed into the sea, making what Winchester says was the loudest noise ever heard by human beings, all Watson had to worry about was a thick coat of ash and mud on his deck and rigging — no injuries to his crew, no serious damage to the Charles Bal.

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?