Sentences with phrase «left the island by»

From 1942 until 1946, the United States Navy built a Coastal Lookout Station on the island, and in the 1960s they built a photo - tracking station, but had left the island by the mid-1960s.

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The area covered by traffickers around the Galapagos Islands is as big as the continental US, Ray said, leaving Coast Guard assets assigned to the area stretched thin.

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has yet to recover fully from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria, which in late September knocked out power to the entire island and left all 3.4 million residents of the U.S. territory in the dark and killed dozens of people.

From the late 1960s through the early»70s, the denizens of this tiny Pacific island were the wealthiest people on the planet per capita, due to the dense and valuable guano deposits left on the island by fish - eating seabirds over a period of eons.

The salt spray whipped on to the island by the hurricane also likely dried out the leaves on trees — causing them to turn brown.

These associates were left in need by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and Marriott Vacations Worldwide associates «Filled the Containers» with over 10,000 pounds of basic supplies that have been difficult to find on the island since the hurricanes.

After Puerto Rico was pummeled by Hurricane Maria last week, a Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph winds, the island has been left in shambles.

Private companies and governments of other countries have extended their hand to help Puerto Rico, as the island looks to recover from the ruins left behind by Hurricane Maria.

Trucks are incapable of passing through some of the physically damaged areas left by Hurricane Maria, and, in turn, sectors of the island continue to be isolated with limited supplies of cash.

The Puerto Rico island, which was recently hit by Hurricane Maria, was left with a decimated infrastructure and large losses around many houses and hotels that were devoured by the winds that blew last September.

3) Hurricane Maria killed 27 people in Dominica — where even the prime minister was left homeless: An island to the east of Puerto Rico, Dominica was also shredded by Maria.

Sariela Bordner left Puerto Rico when she was 8 but her father, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends still live on the island, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria at the end of September.

Exacerbated by this, young Puerto Ricans faced with limited job prospects have left the island in droves to come to the mainland, where they can live and work without having to obtain a visa.

The tech giant has found a tax haven in the island of Jersey, leaving billions of dollars untouched by the United States, leaked documents reveal.

Suspended by Arabella Dorman is a collection of hundreds of items of refugee clothing found mainly on beaches on the Greek island of Lesbos and garments left behind in the camps of Calais.

In about 562, moved «by the love of Christ», he left Ireland and with twelve companions established a base on the rocky island of Iona, off the Scottish coast, from where he evangelized the mainland of Scotland and Northumbria.

For by the author's lights, God has left the finches on the Galapagos Islands to fend for themselves, and will intervene but occasionally, and only when absolutely necessary, to get a significantly different species up and running.

As if having a tsunami that has killed 272 people and left over 400 missing wasn't bad enough: 25 people have been confirmed dead by a volcanic eruption on another Indonesian island.

It includes Weaver's wonderful essay, «Up From Liberalism,» which is the account of a young man leaving his liberalism behind as he discovers that «we are inhabitants of a fruitful and well - ordered island surrounded by an ocean of ontological mystery.

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It was first settled by the Dutch in the mid-1600s but they abandoned the island and left it to pirates.

That leaves the Chiefs corner covering Sanders on an island by himself deep and, unfortunately for him, with outside leverage.

About 25 mins from the Trang pier by the long tail boat and 15 mins by speed boat, the Sivalai leaves you with a stunning view of the emerald waters and islands nearby.

Welcome to the Unbe - leaf - able September to Remember Giveaway Hop hosted by Mama the Fox, The Kids Did It, and The Mommy Island!

Eight people have filed a lawsuit against Cuomo, arguing his failure to set a special election date to fill the congressional vacancy left by former Rep. Michael Grimm violates the constitutional rights of residents of Staten Island and of southern Brooklyn.

But it's also starting relatively early given the surprise announcement by Paul Massey he would not continue on with his bid for the Republican nomination, leaving the Staten Island assemblywoman the likely nominee.

The chamber is controlled by Republicans, but Democrats in the Senate were buoyed after a paper ballot count left their candidate in a Long Island Senate race with a 41 vote advantage, potentially giving them a 32 - person majority.

Shimon Waronker, the embattled superintendent of the Hempstead school district, was placed on administrative leave by the district's school board majority — an action, which if it holds up, will ban the former New York City educator from intervening in the operations of Long Island's most troubled school system.

Also, a settlement at Finima in Bonny Island was attacked by gunmen suspected to be cultist leaving two people dead on its wake.

Long Island law enforcement and school officials, spurred by the South Florida shooting that left 17 dead Wednesday, say they are prepared to swiftly respond if a similar rampage takes place in Nassau or Suffolk schools.

SOUTH BEACH — The Staten Island Democratic Party picked Brooklyn City Councilman Vincent Gentile to run for the congressional seat left vacant by former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm.

With a little more than a week left before a potential strike by Long Island Railroad workers, Governor Andrew Cuomo weighed in with a determined - sounding statement.

Shelter Island Town Democrats «are not far - left liberals by any means,» said Heather Reylek, long - time Shelter Island Democratic chairwoman.

Levine noted the destruction in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria left the island without power and in desperate need of medical supplies and generators.

There were also special elections yesterday to fill two state legislative seats left vacant by the federal corruption convictions of their former occupants — ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (lower Manhattan) and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (Nassau County, Long Island).

In November, Borelli won an uncontested race for the South Shore City Council seat recently held by Vincent Ignizio, who left that seat vacant to run Catholic Charities of Staten Island.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Tight - lipped on when he will set a special election for Congress, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told the New York Observer Monday that he has no time frame for the election to fill the vacant seat left by former Congressman Michael Grimm.

ALBANY — The state Board of Regents chancellor, confronted Monday by anxious Long Island parents at the panel's meeting, assured them she will look into complaints that more teenagers are at risk of leaving high school without diplomas.

Three main water quality issues were cited by Mr. Cuomo during his 20 - minute speech: an underground plume left by Northrup Grumman in Nassau county that measures one - by - three miles wide, runoff from mulching facilities on Long Island (of which there are 65) and saltwater intrusion.

BACK SCRATCH: John Tabacco (left) says his campaign for a Staten Island CIty Council seat scored the nod of the state Independence Party after he agreed to lend $ 10,000 to Government Response Inc., a computer - services company run by Kristin Mackay, wife of party Chairman Frank MacKay (right).

Jonathan FickesUFT President Michael Mulgrew is flanked by Alicia Schwartz (left) of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, who used vacation time to help out in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, and Nancy Barth - Miller, the chapter leader at Staten Island University Hospital.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew is flanked by Alicia Schwartz (left) of the Visiting Nurse Service, who used vacation time to help out in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, and Nancy Barth - Miller, a member at Staten Island University Hospital.

The Staten Island Zoo may drop its Groundhog Day policy after one animal died after being dropped by Mayor Bill de Blasio (left) and another infamously bit then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2009.

TIMES SQUARE — When she heard about the confrontation with police that left Staten Island man Eric Garner dead, Constance Malcolm, mother of Ramarley Graham, the unarmed Bronx teen fatally shot in his own home by NYPD Officer Richard Haste in 2012, says she couldn't watch the viral video of the incident.

While perhaps more mundane than the megaboulders (found only locally on Eleuthera), the sedimentological structures found within chevron ridge and runup deposits across islands throughout the Bahamas and Bermuda point to frequent and repeated inundation by powerful storm waves, in some locations leaving storm deposits tens of meters above sea level.

Memory made from tiny islands of semiconductor — known as quantum dots — could fill a gap left by today's computer memory, allowing storage that is fast as well as long lasting.

After centuries of being filled in or diverted, what was left of Coney Island Creek overflowed with such a vengeance that it nearly killed a group of city utility workers trapped by the rising waters.

But as we move [d] down the coast and we also start [ed] to go under these islands which were filled with young penguin chicks — penguins are all kind of born in November, they leave the nest in the first week of February or so and when we were seeing them in January, they were still covered by down and this was during that kind of torrential rain period that we saw, and as a result these penguin chicks which were [a] couple months old covered in down are getting soaked by cold rain during the day and then at night time the temperature drops down into the teens and they are freezing and dying.