Sentences with phrase «by island nations»

We need to preserve our natural resources individually by island nations and positive results will be achieved.

The ban on «God Cares» is one application of state laws widely opposed by the island nation's Christians and other non-Muslims.

Many fintech companies are moving to Singapore, drawn in part by the island nation's uniquely flexible regulation.

Not exact matches

However, as the League of Nations fell apart in the 1930s and was then replaced by the United Nations, the ruling on the status of Hans Island carries little to no weight.

World Atlas notes that the island was decided to be Danish territory by the Permanent Court of International Justice of the League of Nations in 1933.

In an essay published in local media, Fidel Castro celebrated his 89th birthday Thursday by arguing that the United States owes Cuba «many millions of dollars» because of the trade embargo Congress imposed on the island nation back in 1963, according to a report in L'Agence France - Presse

Earlier this month, Business Standard reported that Ola was accused of commercial espionage by a local Sri Lankan cab - hailing firm PickMe, which runs the largest cab service in the island nation.

Posted 24 October 2014 11:32 GMT by Rezwan Each year, approximately one million tourists visit the island nation Maldives for its sunny warm weather and stunning natural beauty.

As noted by Bloomberg, the island nation's Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, has claimed that cryptocurrencies are «the inevitable future of

Since being hit by Hurricane Maria last year, Puerto Rico has been embroiled in a power crisis, and Tesla has been doing its part helping the island nation through its products such as the Powerpack, Powerwall home battery, and solar panels.

The islands that make up the Grand Island and Goose Islands complexes were nominated in 2001 by local First Nations to become protected areas for cultural and wildlife islands that make up the Grand Island and Goose Islands complexes were nominated in 2001 by local First Nations to become protected areas for cultural and wildlife Islands complexes were nominated in 2001 by local First Nations to become protected areas for cultural and wildlife values.

The Japanese diet is dominated by seafood, as one might expect from an island nation.

The island nation topped a list of 53 states - narrowly beating Lesotho and Botswana - published by the Council for Christians and Jews (CCJ).

The predominantly Catholic island nation of Malta will join much of Western Europe by legalising same - sex... More

(Typically not mentioned is that by not ratifying CEDAW we also stand with the Holy See and scenic, island nations such as Tonga and Palau.)

WELLINGTON: New Zealand's booming tourism industry is emerging as a cornerstone of an economy hit by declining dairy exports, but the hordes descending on silver screen locations such as Hobbiton are stretching the small island nation's resources.

Yet this island nation is also heavily dependent on food imports, and the combination of steep tariffs and rising world prices could prove difficult for policymakers once the impact is felt by consumers and business owners.

This solution would be somewhat akin to the status devised by the League of Nations in 1921 for the Aaland Islands, disputed at the time between Finland and Sweden.

That wretched tradition has continued down through the foundation of Irish Republicanism by those who regarded their own Protestant and «Saxon» nation as the only true one on the Irish island, through anti-monarchist attitudes to Australian Aborigines from the Victorian Period to the present day, through Hendrik Verwoerd and Ian Smith, through attempts to abrogate the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand, and through the patriation of the Canadian Constitution against the wishes, both of the Aboriginal peoples to whom the Crown had numerous treaty obligations, and of the government of Quebec.

The quixotic idea of Long Island as the nation's 51st state, sparked by frustration over high taxes and lack of attention from Albany, has taken a step forward with Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's decision to support a new commission to study its feasibility.

If approved by the Long Island Power Authority, the governor said the facility would be the largest offshore wind project in the nation's history, creating 2.4 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, or enough to power 1.25 million homes.

Although, a delegation of American legislators led by Sen. Patrick Leahy arrived in Cuba Saturday to discuss greater cooperation and remaining areas of disagreement — the first congressional delegation to visit the island nation since Obama's announcement.

The summit, jointly organised by the United Nations, the World Bank Group, and the French Government in partnership with non-governmental organisations concerned about reversing the negative effects of climate change, like Bloomberg Philanthropies, holds at the eco-friendly La Seine Musicale, situated on the picturesque Seguin Island in western Paris.

WASHINGTON — A delegation of American legislators led by Senator Patrick J. Leahy arrived in Cuba on Saturday to discuss greater cooperation and remaining areas of disagreement, the first congressional delegation to visit the island nation since President Obama announced last month that he was restoring full diplomatic ties with it.

In his April 7 letter, Oddo asked the DOT to help Staten Island commuters — who face one of the longest commutes in the nation — by giving them other options besides express buses to get into Midtown.

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.

The results confirm that Vanuatu's first people were of the Lapita culture and arrived 3,000 years ago from South East Asia, followed by Papuan arrivals from the island of New Britain, in the Bismarck Archipelago just to the east of New Guinea and part of the nation of Papua New Guinea.

This poor island nation is regularly hit by plague outbreaks, but they are typically the relatively less dangerous bubonic form, transmitted from rats to humans by fleas, and occur largely in remote areas.

«This is a first step, but not the final step,» said Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum, whose island nation risks being swamped by rising sea levels.

What it means: Island states, African nations and other vulnerable countries are pushing for a system that provides funding to help them recover from disasters made worse by climate change, such as rising seas or powerful storms.

Iceland makes an ideal test site because the ground beneath the island nation is 90 percent basalt, which is formed by volcanic activity.

Served raw and sliced thin, with a squeeze of lime juice, a sprinkling of seven different types of crushed peppers, roasted seaweed flakes, toasted sesame seeds and sea salt from Kiribati, a Pacific island nation that will soon be engulfed by the ocean because of climate change.

Nauru, one of the South Pacific's most influential island nations — because of the wealth generated by mining phosphate — will break off diplomatic relations with France if the tests go ahead.

For instance, the global price of rice has dropped from $ 1,000 per metric ton in April to less then $ 500, but Parmalee says that in Haiti it was still hovering at $ 1,000 in October because the Caribbean island nation was devastated by four hurricanes this year.

The World Wildlife Fund has called this nation «by far the most biologically rich and diverse island in the Caribbean.»

Plant and animal species will be pushed to extinction, drought and famine will increase, and some small island nations could be literally drowned by rising sea levels.

Welcome to the 23rd Convention of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)-- led for the first time by a small Island nation, Fiji, but held in Germany.

The film, directed by Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse, tells the story of a British - Caribbean dictator (Michael Caine) who flees his island nation for refuge in America with his pen pal, Darlene's daughter Tatiana (Odeya Rush).

Mudslides and floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed scores of people in the island nation.

A cultural affinity for digital technologies in Iceland — spurred largely by a historical need to overcome geographic isolation — has filtered down to the schools in the North Atlantic island nation.

The Manukau Family Literacy Program, run by the City of Manukau Education Trust, is based in the island nation's third - largest city, which has a significant concentration of Maoris (the country's first inhabitants) and Pacific Islanders who have had little formal schooling.

Officials from the island nation are eager to find ways to improve their education system by observing schools in the United States — despite this country's mediocre finish in that study, the biggest and broadest ever conducted comparing the math and science performance of 7th and 8th graders around the globe.

Last night, by overwhelming margins, the Rhode Island legislature passed what may be the nation's most comprehensive state public employee pension reform ever.

On a warm weekend in October, a group of partners and volunteers took the ferry to Christian Island on Georgian Bay, after being invited by the Beausoleil First Nation's Elders, Chief and Band Council to bring an animal wellness and spay / neuter clinic to their community.

The purchase of the trailer was made possible by more than $ 22,000 in donations and grants from Invisible Fence ® Brand, the Washington Brittany Club, Cascade Havanese Club, Sammamish Kennel Club, Mount Rainier Working Dog Club, Washington State Obedience Training Club, Puget Sound Doberman Pinscher Club, Adele Keyfel, Evergreen Basenji Club, Whidbey Island Kennel Club, Pacific Crest Keeshond Club, Dog Judges Association of America, Basenji Club of America, and AKC Reunite, the nation's largest non-profit pet identification and recovery service.

Jamaica minister of tourism, Edmund Bartlett, has sought to leverage his position as chairman of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation's board of affiliate members to appeal for aid for Caribbean islands recently devastated by Hurricane Irma.

In 2016 Haiti was struck by Hurricane Matthew which leveled entire communities and caused an upsurge in the ongoing cholera epidemic which was introduced to the island by United Nation aide workers.

It's the smallest island in the world shared by two nations.

Abercrombie & Kent has brought together unparalleled expertise in small ship cruising and experiential travel to create the most immersive way to experience this island nation, Cuba by Land & Sea: A People - to - People Cruise.

For centuries dubbed the Sandalwood Island, thanks to its export trade, it was colonized by the Portuguese in the early 16th century, and by 1866 belonged to the Dutch East Indies, but few signs of these colonizing nations remain today.