Sentences with phrase «east by the barrier»

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The East Timorese authorities are doing their best, but ongoing international assistance is also required to help remove barriers to participation by expanding the reach of EMBs into rural areas and increasing access to voting facilities.

-- Last month, we reported on concerns expressed by local residents about the city's plans for an East River flood barrier.

Planning permission deterred most people living in Wales (49 %) and finding a plot of land was the barrier chosen most by those living in the East (37 %) and Scotland (44 %).

The New York City Council unanimously elected a fiercely liberal Democrat from East Harlem as its powerful speaker on Wednesday, eschewing the moderate leadership that had overseen its ranks for a decade and eliminating the last barrier to a government fully in line with the undiluted liberalism embraced by the new mayor... Previous speakers, such as Christine C. Quinn, had acted as a tempering force in the restive Council, bottling up measures like higher wage mandates viewed warily by the business world.

The New York City Council unanimously elected a fiercely liberal Democrat from East Harlem as its powerful speaker on Wednesday, eschewing the moderate leadership that had overseen its ranks for a decade and eliminating the last barrier to a government fully in line with the undiluted liberalism embraced by the new mayor.

The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected to predict the loss of thousands of species in temperature - sensitive biodiversity hotspots such as the Great Barrier Reef, off the east coast of Australia, if temperatures go on rising.

This shift has been ascribed to increased aridity due to the orographic barrier produced by the progressive rifting of East Africa during this period [22].

Jervis Bay offers some of the most diversified scuba diving along the Australian east coast, regarded by many as the alternate dive site to the Great Barrier Reef.

Situated on the south - east tip of Florida, the barrier island is connected by bridges to mainland Miami.

Amelia Island is the northern most barrier island on the east coast of Florida and is separated from Georgia's southern most barrier island, Cumberland Island, by the St. Mary's River.

In this episode of the WRI Podcast, Lawrence MacDonald is joined by two WRI energy experts, Lily Odarno and Sanjoy Sanyal, to discuss how advances in data, technology and finance are overcoming barriers for access to energy in East Africa.

These concerns were triggered by the discovery that Soviet submarines were getting into the north Atlantic by transiting under the Arctic ice, passing through the deepest channel out of the Arctic Basin (the East Greenland Channel), thus bypassing the submarine and air barrier set up between Iceland and Scotland.