Sentences with phrase «island country when»

Barry Brill's report on Fiji's relocation of a village doesn't mean that it's the only opportunistic Pacific island country when it comes to COP23.

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Instead, when you make this argument to people about Singapore, lots of people go, «Oh, but it's a small island Asian country,» they start saying, «But, you shouldn't look at it,» and I'm like, «Really?

Ortega was also instrumental in coordinating Pope John Paul II's historic visit to the island in 1998 when crowds of adoring Cubans turned out to see the first pope come to their country.

When we open our house in the country in the spring we know that it will still be winter on our hill; Crosswicks is a good three weeks behind New York, where the Cathedral Close is bursting with blossom, and the cement islands which run down the middle of Broadway are astonishing with the glory of magnolia blooms.

When I read that the only Caribbean island with its own Zagat Restaurant Guide is Barbados, I flashed back to our trip to that highly civilized country that is run like a business.

He told the Washington Post that he relocated from Rhode Island to Florida to retire, but when he looked around at other retirees, he saw that they were doing things like playing golf and shuffleboard and hanging out at country clubs.

After serving 27 years, 18 of which were in the infamous Robben Island prison, Mandela was released when the ban on the ANC Party was lifted, becoming the country's first black president four years later.

«At a time when our country is mourning the loss of 17 lives in a mass shooting, it is profoundly disappointing that a storied Coney Island institution, with a long history of being a strong civic and community partner, is choosing to host a National Rifle Association fundraising event that includes raffle giveaways of guns.

«When Grimm was running, the whole country knew about him, because of all the problems he was having,» said Tom Schcherbenko, another Staten Island Democratic district leader.

«For all that you hear about difference between regions of the state, when we meet as a group there are a tremendous number of issues that unite county governments from Long Island to the North Country to the Niagara Frontier,» Picente said.

On - topic questions included the timing of the effectiveness of the laws signed today and when ICE will close it's office on Rikers Island, how many people currently on Rikers Island will be covered by these laws, details of Carlos Rodriguez (who was held on Rikers Island for eight months on an ICE detainer) path to this country and his thoughts during his eight month detention, what Mayor de Blasio would like to see the federal government do about immigration and what he will do absent such action, what he would tell Republicans who think his approach is a dangerous precedent, de Blasio and Melissa Mark - Viverito's positions on municipal IDs and voting rights for non-citizens, the number of people arrested on misdemeanors and then subject to ICE detainers and whether persons arrested on felony charges must first go through the justice system before being subject to an ICE detainer.

«We want that to accelerate and make sure that the bigger countries are more serious about this and have in place mechanisms, especially when disaster strikes small islands,» Thoriq Ibrahim, environment and energy minister for the low - lying Maldives and chairman of the AOSIS, told E&E News recently.

Our biggest research on malaria has come when American soldiers have been fighting in tropical countries, like the Pacific Islands in World War II or in Vietnam.

«On the other hand, when technologies are economically available to harvest renewable energy, Japan can become one of the energy - rich countries in the world using the large resources of wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energies available among the Japanese islands.»

Once considered a disease of developing countries in African and Asia, chikungunya got a burst of scientific attention when it popped up on the French island of La Reunion in 2007.

The U.S. conducted a total of 67 nuclear tests (pdf)-- some above the water and some beneath — in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958, when the country halted atmospheric tests (largely due to Castle Bravo).

Japan's environmental reputation suffered a blow last week when a government report cleared the way for the completion of a dam that will tame the last free - flowing river left on the country's main island of Honshu.

Calvert Island has always been an island, so theoretically, anyone walking on it would have had to use some type of boat to reach its shores, McLaren told Indian Country Today in 2015, when the find was first annoIsland has always been an island, so theoretically, anyone walking on it would have had to use some type of boat to reach its shores, McLaren told Indian Country Today in 2015, when the find was first annoisland, so theoretically, anyone walking on it would have had to use some type of boat to reach its shores, McLaren told Indian Country Today in 2015, when the find was first announced.

Donkey Kong Island is overrun by Vikings in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, which will be a retail release and a Wii U eShop download when it arrives later this year.

Arctic invaders have turned Donkey Kong Island into their personal frozen fortress, and it's up to you to save the day when Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze launches on Nintendo Switch May 4th!

While several countries have occupied the small island nation, the Portuguese arrived in the 1500s, and East Timor remained under Portuguese colonial rule until 1975 when the Indonesians invaded.

European explorers first reached the country in 1568, when Spaniard Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira landed on Santa Isabel Island.

When señorita Obi asks the class to draw a picture of their home country, Lola must ask the people in her neighborhood what they remember about the island.

Caro, the appealing heroine of Anne Rivers Siddons's Low Country (HarperAudio, $ 25, 6 hours, 0694519960), read here by Debra Monk, takes that advice to heart when she faces the loss of the island she treasures to a development company one, unfortunately, controlled by her own husband.

Most the time when we look at the background of online forex and CFDs brokers, we find that they are usually based in Cyprus or a Caribbean country like the British Virgin Island.

It is a huge country with more than 7000 islands, so when we visited the Philippines, we focused our trip on the Bisayas Iislands, so when we visited the Philippines, we focused our trip on the Bisayas IslandsIslands.

Divers from around the country are flown to the island when decompression treatment is required.

Don't expect a lot of signposts to the Skeabost Country House Hotel when you turn off from the main road just outside the island's main town, Portree.

You may not be able to cover the whole country in one vacation, but here are the cities, islands and activities you absolutely can't miss when you travel to Thailand: • Shop in Bangkok's Siam Square, and enjoy the city's nightlife • Relax on the tropical beaches of Phuket and Koh Samui • Visit the temples and churches of Chiang Rai • Take in the lush greenery and ancient cities of Chiang Mai

We've been in the country for six months so when we finally made it to Hervey Bay, the jump - off point for Fraser Island,

It brought to mind the same situation when I first set foot on the mountainous grounds of the province two years ago when I climbed Mount Pulag, the 3rd highest peak in the country and the highest in the whole Island of Luzon.

In the absence of a specific agreement the law of the country within the UK and Channel Islands in which you reside when the contract is concluded will apply

When you've planned your next holiday destination to be in the island of Bali, you are most likely looking forward to the long walks at the beach, views of iconic rice terraces, testing out your surfing skills, and spending a good amount of time soaking up that vitamin D. However, being located in a tropical country like Indonesia, there are chances of your outdoor activities being delayed because of heavy showers.

Belize is a small country, and a large portion of its tourism is to its islands / cayes, so this isn't a typical destination when it comes to options of getting around.

That was until the final world, when I realised I had been island hopping rather than just exploring different parts of the same island like in the first DK Country Returns on Wii.

Separately, these are huge accomplishments, but when the Cook Islands — the only country with waters bordering the other three — joined the party, the largest contiguous shark sanctuary in the world was created.

Warning and relocating thousands or millions of citizens when a storm is approaching would be a massive hurdle for any country — and in the case of a developing nation like the Philippines with nearly 100 million citizens spread out across thousands of islands, the hurdle becomes bigger still.

China knows that the most vulnerable countries, such as the small island countries, should get priority for international funding, but China has not counted itself out of contention for funds in the long run, when $ 10 billion per year in aid grows to $ 100 billion per year.

And while the affluent are the biggest polluters, developing island countries — some of which rely on tourism to shore up their economies — are paying the higher price when it comes to climate change.

The whole «China as the good guy» will go by the wayside, especially when China provokes hostilities with neighbor countries over the South China Sea and its new militarized islands.

When the 2 - degree limit was agreed to at a 2010 conference in Cancún, Mexico, it faced intense opposition from the low - lying island nations and poor countries at greatest risk from rising sea levels and extremes of weather.

The President, whose country holds the Presidency of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change until the next COP, this December in Poland, said he has been questioned for championing inclusive, Pacific - Island - style discussions called «Talanoa» to confront climate change when action is required.

A new study aims to settle the debate about how and when this invasive species was introduced to the island country.

When I hear the younger generation crying, «we are leaving Europe, I won't be able to holiday abroad, I will be stuck on this lonely little island» it makes me cringe to think this is the next generation of adults, how on earth will they manage to look after themselves or our Country!

Before SCL had dealings in St. Kitts and Nevis, in 2009 the company worked on a major referendum campaign on the Caribbean islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to defeat an attempt to establish a new constitution to replace the one that had been enacted when the country became independent from British rule in 1979.

An example of such a confrontation occurred recently when three Torres Strait Islanders from Mer (Murray Island) found commercial fishermen fishing in their traditional sea country.

When it comes to designing the perfect modern country kitchen, we all hanker after a look that will seamlessly blend the classics, such as crafted cabinetry and statement islands, with the latest appliances.