Sentences with phrase «land borders on»

The Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) is limiting flagpoling land borders in Ontario and Quebec to only Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to manage the high volume and long waits due to flagpoling at certain land borders on the weekends.

While Guangzhou's 48.6 million yuan plan to clean up the Pearl Rivers make for good policy, Guangdong's proposals to reclaim new land to increase agricultural land borders on ridiculousness, and speaks to the kind of lunatic policy making when subunits of national government are left to their own devices.

Even newfound practices of sustainability and restoration of ravaged lands border on cheap grace, helping us too easily to forget our past sins and too readily easing our needed lamentation.

Roman rule brought political unity to the lands bordering on the Mediterranean Sea.

The plan is for the North's athletes to enter the South over a land border on Feb. 1.

Not exact matches

When it bought Blackcomb Mountain, then just six years old and suffering growing pains, from a subsidiary of Aspen Skiing in 1986, it wasn't looking at the then state - of - the - art lifts so much as the developable land around the base of the hill, which bordered on the new Whistler Village.

U.S. President Donald Trump's attempt to make an unannounced visit to the heavily fortified border separating North and South Korea was aborted on Wednesday after dense fog prevented his helicopter from landing, officials said.

The newest micronation on our list, Liberland was founded in April 2015 on an unclaimed parcel of land near the Croatian - Serbian border.

The crackdown on trafficking camps along its border with Malaysia made conditions too risky for people smugglers to land their human cargo, so they simply set them adrift.

The first part of the promotion gave customers a chance to participate in the company's efforts to buy a section of land on the U.S. - Mexico border where President Donald Trump plans to build a wall.

agreement on border arrangements, especially on the new EU - U.K. land border in Ireland, as well as those of British military bases on EU member Cyprus.

When the Israelites finally reached the borders of the land of Israel, Moses sent in a group of 12 spies to inspect the land and report on conditions, so that the nation would be prepared to enter the land.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt imposed a blockade on their neighbor, closing their land, sea and air borders with Qatar.

The keys are smuggled into Mexico and then on to the United States — by land, air, or sea — using methods as varied as they are ingenious: stashed under fresh produce, in cans of jalapeños, in the bellies of frozen shark carcasses, in trap compartments of cars, trucks, motor homes, container ships, small aircraft, even submarines; taped to the bodies of backpackers traveling by bus; catapulted over border fences; concealed in the trunks of corrupt local sheriffs; or trundled through underground tunnels (some so well constructed that they have air conditioning), a tactic purportedly devised by El Chapo himself.

The Kurdistan Regional Government, which runs the land - locked, semiautonomous Kurdish enclave that borders Turkey, says it started pumping crude from its oil fields directly to Turkey through a newly constructed pipeline to the export terminal at Ceyhan on Turkey's Mediterranean coast in early January.

In the meantime, the number of daily arrivals continues to rise on the island and Greeces land border with Turkey.

Right now we send 10's of billions of dollars to Israel to defend their borders but if you ask them whose land it is the Israelite's say «It is our land, promised to us by God on high 3500 years ago!»

On that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the center of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border....

If the U.S. had China on the 49th Parallel and Germany on the Rio Grande, and a long land border with the Islamic world where the Pacific Ocean now is, it might be a very different place.

James and Ida Burkholder grew up on farms in rural Pennsylvania and started their own farm five years ago with land purchased by Ida's father that bordered the 333 - acre Rodale Institute research farm.

The Business: Featured on Sydney Weekender, and in numerous publications such as: Garlic by Penny Woodward; Transition Farms by Bev Buckley; The Land newspaper; Small Farms and Border Living magazines,» Carrigbyrne» has been a thriving organic garlic business for the past 26 years, with a large customer base of both retail businesses and individuals from Melbourne to Darwin.

After years of discussions, meetings and land hunts, a park is at last in the offing for the 157 - home Peach Creek subdivision on Lisle's western border.

The Lisle Village Board has agreed to consider a land swap with the Park District that would free up a site for a park on the western border of the town, where more than 200 homes are planned.

The three developments were built on unincorporated land in the borders of the Mokena Park District.

Fearing that Lake in the Hills wanted to put a gravel pit on the land, which borders residential subdivisions in Cary, residents and village officials urged the Cary Park District to initiate condemnation proceedings to purchase the land for recreational use and open space.

The amendment was designed to prohibit municipalities from annexing land separated from their borders by a forest preserve and bounded on three or more sides by the forest preserve, neighboring towns or both.

The land is in both Cook and Will Counties, bordered on the north by 179th Street, on the south by I - 80, on the east by LaGrange Road and on the west by 104th Avenue.

The property is bordered on three sides by Orland Park and by county forest preserve land on the fourth.

Even though going into labor meant I would need to cross the busiest land border in the world while in labor, possibly being stuck in traffic for hours (on top of the already far drive).

Under the current plan, approximately 300 trees will be cleared to make room for a 100,000 - square - foot building, a 385 - space parking lot and a drainage pond on 8 acres of hospital - owned land bordering the preserve.

We support a negotiated settlement leading to a safe and secure Israel living alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state; based on 1967 borders with agreed land swaps, Jerusalem as the shared capital of both states, and a just, fair and agreed settlement for refugees.

The Post reported back in August that Jacobs, who owns several successful summer camps, has signed a drilling lease with Hess for some on some 140 acres of land at his Tyler Hill camp, just over the border from New York's Catskill Mountains.

The answer is that you can not enter from the land for the simple fact that they are considered safe in Turkey, but not at sea, so they can be refused at the border and not (legally) on the sea.

Meanwhile, the Comptroller - General reiterated Federal Government ban on importation of Rice and Vehicles through the land borders.

The U.S. DHS has made provision in their 2014 budget proposal for a study on collecting fees from people entering the U.S. via land border crossings, to defray security costs.

The Times also takes a shot at former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, who crossed party lines (again) to endorse Turner, saying the NY - 9 special should be a referendum on President Obama's statement that Israel's pre-1967 borders should be the basis for negotiating a peace agreement — with mutually agreed land swaps.

The larger portion of the Oneida claim, to the 6 - million - acre (24,000 km2) tract, was rejected by the Second Circuit in 1988 on the grounds that the Confederation Congress Proclamation of 1783 had neither the authority nor the intent to limit the acquisition of Indian lands within the borders of US states.

The 2002 deal gave the Senecas an exclusive right to operate casino gambling in a sprawling area of upstate: all land to the west of Route 14, a state road that runs from Sodus Point on Lake Ontario to the Pennsylvania border just south of Elmira.

Members of the Senate today descended on Federal Government's ban on importation of vehicles through the land borders describing the decision as anti-people.

Ohakim who was arraigned on Wednesday, July 8, 2015 on a three - count charge bordering on money laundering is alleged to have made a cash payment of $ 2, 290,000.00 (Two Million, Two Hundred and Ninety Thousand Dollars), for a piece of land at Plot No. 1098 Cadastral Zone A04, Asokoro District, otherwise known as No. 60, Kwame Nkurumah Street, Asokoro, Abuja.

However, the ambitious project by the federal government to build a smart city, on a 1,260 hectares piece of virgin land located several kilometers Southeast of Nigeria's capital, Abuja is embroiled in several controversies, all bordering on alleged fraud.

Jacobs says he's signed a contract with, and received per - acre upfront money from, energy giant Hess Corp. to drill on some 140 acres of land at his Tyler Hill summer camp, just over the border from New York's Catskill Mountains.

On the other hand Ireland seems to be hard bent on avoiding border checks at land crossings, in order to avoid upsetting the peace process between Unionists and NationalistOn the other hand Ireland seems to be hard bent on avoiding border checks at land crossings, in order to avoid upsetting the peace process between Unionists and Nationaliston avoiding border checks at land crossings, in order to avoid upsetting the peace process between Unionists and Nationalists.

A stipulation in the bill requires the independent preparatory school to come to terms with the Rye City Council first on a shared - use agreement for the 4.7 - acre vacant land parcel located parallel to the private school, along Boston Post Road and at the entryway of one of Rye's municipal borders.

Starting dates differ somewhat, but 20 years is a good round number since developers first proposed the resort on some 1,900 acres of land on the Ulster - Delaware border.

It will collect behind the most southerly dam on the river, the Morelos, which sits on the Mexico - US border and normally diverts the last of the Colorado toward agricultural land.

The principles of geomorphology would also suggest that from the lofty mountain axis bordering the Pacific there should slope downward, across the Pole, a broad plateau to Weddell Sea on the one side and the bight between Wilkes Land and Enderly Land on the other; and this interpretation is borne out by the description of the plateau conditions which were found to exist around the South Pole.

On the day after Christmas in 1889 the» Vincennes,» «Peacock,» «Porpoise,» and «Flying Fish» headed southward from Sydney and, falling in with the land in latitude 64 degrees south and longitude 158 degrees East of Greenwich, on the 16th of January following, skirted the border of a new continent to the westward as far as longitude 97 degrees East of GreenwicOn the day after Christmas in 1889 the» Vincennes,» «Peacock,» «Porpoise,» and «Flying Fish» headed southward from Sydney and, falling in with the land in latitude 64 degrees south and longitude 158 degrees East of Greenwich, on the 16th of January following, skirted the border of a new continent to the westward as far as longitude 97 degrees East of Greenwicon the 16th of January following, skirted the border of a new continent to the westward as far as longitude 97 degrees East of Greenwich.

Those areas, colored dark brown on the map, are Brownsville, Texas, which abuts Mexico and has a busy land border crossing, and southern Florida.

MOTALA & MOSHA, THE ELEPHANTS Motala and Mosha are Asian elephants who lost their legs after stepping on land mines along the Thailand — Burma border.