Sentences with phrase «island nations who»

President Barack Obama emphasized the importance of lending a hand to island nations who are on the brink of becoming enveloped by the ocean.

What makes this process complicated is that you have small island nations who are about to disappear because of sea level rise, you have oil producers who are legitimately concerned about the future of their economy, you have major industrialized nations who are afraid they will lose jobs, and you have major developing countries whose overriding concern is economic growth and poverty eradication.

They exchanged ideas for more joint approaches as island nations dependent on tourism, and they all agreed on the need for long - haul tourism destinations such as the Caribbean islands and the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands to work together to continue to lobby against the UK Carbon Tax, which is working against the continued consolidation of tourism as an industry for these island nations who have worked tirelessly and made sacrifices to protect their environment which is today compensating the carbon emission from the developed world who are today imposing a carbon tax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main industry.

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Matos's father, who hails from a family of cattle ranchers in Cuba, fled the island nation in 1967.

Americans, who had been barred from visiting the island nation for decades, are already adjusting their travel plans.

Croatia, who finished second to Iceland in World Cup qualifying, were drawn into the same group as the island nation for this summer's tournament.

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.

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.

Fewer deductions means a higher federal tax bill — especially for Long Island, Westchester County and New York City residents, who have some of the nation's highest property taxes.

«The idea is to try to get the least cleanup possible,» said Lloyd Withers, a local businessman who lobbied county legislators in 2011 to give Murphy's Island to the Onondaga Nation.

«People understood that this wasn't just about great nations, powerful nations, coming to an agreement,» said Sen. Brian Schatz (D - Hawaii), who met with island leaders at the Paris summit two years ago.

The program, launched in 2016 and the only one of its kind in the nation, screens all Rhode Island inmates for opioid use disorder and provides medications for addiction treatment (MAT) for those who need it.

They also threaten the homes of people who live in island nations.

Juanderfulpinoy is a community of wanderers who love to share stories about a developing nation, the beautiful island Philippines that features ideas for people who love to travel, take photographs and want to live the dream they want.

NZ Personals is a website for «kiwi singles» who reside in the island nation of New Zealand and Australia.

Just as Hawaii is considered a paradise on Earth, Hawaii Chat City is a real heaven for all those Hawaii singles who are looking to connect with other people who call our island nation home.

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).

January 9, 2015 • Mahinda Rajapaksa, who presided over the end of the island nation's long and brutal civil war, lost to a former ally and Cabinet minister, Maithripala Sirisena.

Welna covered the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, the mass exodus of Cubans who fled the island on rafts in 1994, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, and the U.S. intervention in Haiti to restore Jean Bertrand Aristide to Haiti's presidency.

The island nation's standard history textbook presents a dark picture of American motives: «The Filipinos, who expected the Americans to champion their freedom, instead were betrayed and reluctantly fell into the hands of American imperialists.»

A new law in Rhode Island makes the state the first in the nation to allow teachers who leave the state to retain their retirement benefits.

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.

One of the leading opponents of Common Core in the nation is Dr. Carol C. Burris, an awards winning high school principal on Long Island who received her doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, and has researched and written extensively on the Core but perhaps her most famous and memorable quote is «the Common Core is a lemon and no amount of professional development will make it right.»

This large island nation off the southeast coast of Africa is the perfect destination for anyone who wants to get up close and personal with wildlife — most of which you can't see anyplace else (there are more than 50 species of lemurs alone).

Juanderfulpinoy is a community of wanderers who love to share stories about a developing nation, the beautiful island Philippines that features ideas for people who love to travel, take photographs and want to live the dream they want.

PUBLIC ART On Sept. 27, as part of its 250th anniversary celebration, Brown University dedicates a slave memorial by sculptor Martin Puryear that recognizes the university's «connection to the trans - Atlantic slave trade and the work of Africans and African - Americans, enslaved and free, who helped build our university, Rhode Island, and the nation.»

In the summer of 2012, a large - scale island originating from the Svalbard Arctic region was brought by the artist on a journey around the south west region of England as a visiting «island nation», with citizenship open to all: At the end of Nowhereisland's journey, in September 2012, the island was broken up and distributed amongst the 23,003 people from 135 countries who had signed up as «citizens of Nowhereisland».

Ms. Block, who has traveled to Cuba for many years and long made the case that the island nation and the Bronx share important cultural and economic affinities, encountered resistance from some of the museum's leadership in her push to make the show happen and to deepen ties with Cuba.

My friend and sometime fishing partner Carl Safina, the marine scientist, conservationist and writer (who lives on Long Island), wrote a hard - edged piece for the CNN Web site calling out coastal communities and the nation for complacency in the face of climate change and rising seas.

CNN just aired a new interview with that upbeat, optimistic centenarian James Lovelock, actually just 88, who says his usual stuff about it's too late to do anything about it, but adds that in his view, 500 million people will survive the Troubles, or what others have called «The Great Interruption» from 2050 to 3050, by taking refuge in the Arctic Basin, as well as in island nations such as the UK, New Zealand, Tasmania and a few «oases» in North and South America (maybe Colorado Rockies, Banff, Patagonia, Machu Pichu).

«We must attack this problem with a sense of urgency and ambition and quite frankly we are not seeing the level of urgency and ambition from the U.S.,» said Selwin Hart, a delegate from Barbados who was speaking for the Alliance of Small Island States, who face their entire nations sinking beneath rising seas caused by global warming.

Kiribati aroused my curiosity after I'd read an interview with Anote Tong, the president of the small island nation, who warned about his country becoming uninhabitable due to the rising sea levels and increasing salination.

In addition to academia, Mona has worked as a researcher for the case Sarayaku vs. Ecuador in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, a policy analyst for an NGO that lobbied the United Nations on behalf of small island states who face sea level rise, and an assistant contributor to a World Bank Report on Climate change and water distribution.

The earliest reports from Barbuda indicate that 90 percent of the houses on the small island were destroyed by the storm, an unsustainable level of damage, according to Carl - Friedrich Schleussner, a researcher with Climate Analytics who helps island nations prepare for climate change impacts.

«Rhode Island is proud to be home to the nation's first offshore wind farm — and I'm proud to be the only governor in America who can say we have steel in the water and blades spinning over the ocean,» said Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo.

We asked Andrew Simmons (1994, Islands and Island Nations) who was in the thick of the negotiations as an adviser to the delegation representing St. Vincent and the Grenadines:

Those who are likely to be most affected by climate change are fighting back — young people of island nations.

And we extend great thanks to those aid donors, who have had the vision and determination to create and maintain PacLII for the benefit of the people of the Pacific island nations.

Donald, secretary - elect of the ABA and on track to become president, called Ellis Island «hallowed ground» that symbolizes the nation's diversity... Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times more than 35 years ago, does a very good imitation of Richard Nixon's voice.

Vanuatu denies cryptocurrency powered citizenship promises Vanuatu, a tiny island nation settled in the South Pacific which had previously created a huge stir by declaring that Vanuatu shall offer citizenship in exchange of Bitcoins to those who wish to lead a life...

An Aboriginal man who grew up on the far north coast of NSW and a descendant of the reprehensible slave trade with connections to the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, Sol Bellear AM was a true activist and justice warrior for First Nations people.

The report finds that Rhode Island was 14th best in the nation for the number of children who did not have health insurance in 2012, and 13th best for the percentage of fourth - graders not proficient in reading.

Juanderfulpinoy is a community of wanderers who love to share stories about a developing nation, the beautiful island Philippines that features ideas for people who love to travel, take photographs and want to live the dream they want.