Sentences with phrase «life on this island as»

Her second brother and first sister were born while living on the island as one of the few semi-perminant white families there.

Let's see if you can live on an island as well» and twenty years later they came to live here.

«We'll try and maintain our own way of living on the island as long as we can.

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MuleSoft was the brainchild of founder Ross Mason, who began it as a small open - source project in 2003 when he and his wife were living on the island of Malta.

Known for its long stretches of white sandy beach, Negril is one of the island's hot spots, as is the area's not - so - creatively - named Seven Mile Beach; by day, revelers sip on rum punch and frolic in the warm waters, and my night they drink more rum punch and dance to live reggae bands and steel drum performances.

In the US Virgin Islands, which are exempt from the law, US - made goods are about half as expensive, while the cost of living in Puerto Rico is 13 percent higher than on the American mainland.

This disaster and its aftermath hits particularly close to home, as Reorg has two employees and numerous colleagues and friends who live on the island with their families and face a long journey back to normalcy.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

Amanda Wright lives and works as part of a resident community on the Scottish island of Iona.

I love reading your Green Kitchen Stories and look forward to reading and using your new book as I start a new life on Vashon Island, WA, focused on great, healthy local eating.

Bill Martin, who lived on Oahu for nearly three decades and is now a Big Island resident, summed it up best when he told me, «As you might imagine, going to a hotel luau is like looking for real barbecue at Tony Roma's.»

In fact, about half of the company's 200 employees actually live on Avery Island, with many of their parents and grandparents having worked and lived there as well.

Forty - six - year - old Shigeo Akaji of Kauai earns a living as a payroll clerk and a sportswriter, and between jobs he fishes for o'io, the bonefish, on his island's south coast, in the lee of Mt. Kahili and the weathering remnants of the Hoary Head Range.

The new home where he lives with his wife, Shaunie, and five children in the Star Island section of Miami («over on the causeway with all the foo - foo people,» as he calls it, which is close enough to frou - frou to count) is a short drive from AmericanAirlines Arena, affording him easy access to the team's training facility.

Having fun or not, there may be as many as 25,000 persons on the island at the peak of the season (the winter population is under 4,000), and the easygoing islanders have to adapt themselves to a whole new way of life for eight busy weeks.

Rumour has it, that on one memorable day he was informed by a reporter that the European club they were going to play had a centre forward who was the most deadly header of the ball in the business, «Don't you worry young man says Cloughie, we have a secret weapon, a young man from a pacific island, he is 7» 3» cant kick for toffees but makes his living heading and cracking coconuts as they fall from the tree, how's your man going to deal with that» says Brian and walks of laughing.

She lives on Long Island with her husband, works full - time as a public relations professional for a non-profit organization and volunteers with homeless animals with all of her spare time.

In the first weeks of life, we kept our baby in arm's reach on a blanket on the dinner table as we ate and on our kitchen island as we prepared our meals.

«But, perhaps, most important of all, we should value and see as precious the democracy that we have on these islands where 65 million of us live together and work together and get on together.

Demos, who worked on former Gov. George Pataki's campaigns (Pataki is a Rick Lazio supporter) and also shares a number of consultants (Rob Cole, Arthur Finkelstein), with Lazio, praised the former Long Island congressman in a press release, saying he has «walked with dignity and grace as he has vigorously defended the conservative values and principles that have shaped his life and distinguished career.»

William Cook, 50, a Franklin Square Republican who serves as an associate pastor of an evangelical church in Old Westbury, said corruption «cuts across both parties» and was contributing to the «high cost of living» on Long Island.

The funding for programs that would divert at - risk youth from gang life is in addition to $ 16 million that had previously been announced for anti-gang efforts on Long Island as part of the 2018 - 19 state budget.

Maria slammed into Puerto Rico on Wednesday, cutting power on most of the US territory as terrified residents hunkered down in the face of the island's worst storm in living memory.

I was appalled by the account of Harold Wilson's government, as recently as the late 1960s, forcibly removing Chagos Islanders from their homes to make way for a US airbase on Diego Garcia, even though many lived on islands over 100 miles away.

Dan Buckley, 63, who lives in Long Island and has been coming to the parade for the past 50 years, described the mayor's comments on the Irish as «despicable» «stereotypical» and «wrong.»

«I know the residents in my district, especially those living or working on Grand Island, would welcome this improvement as soon as possible as the bridge toll barriers often cause significant delays.»

But he is banking on the convicts lacking Roger Moore's crocodile - running skills showcased in Bond movie «Live and Let Die» when he escapes from an island using the reptiles as stepping stones.

In this op - ed by Jorge Cotraro, an undocumented immigrant living on Long Island, discusses his constant fear of driving to do daily activities, such as driving to work.

The benefits of capturing tons of truck and automotive emissions in a tunnel that would scrub the particulates out of the air was as obvious to then - Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion when we briefed him on this plan as it was to Long Island residents who live along the Long Island Expressway.

In that comment Mr. Krupski pokes fun at his life as a pumpkin farmer, and raises the question on whether he can run his family's Peconic agricultural business while simultaneously representing a legislative district that stretches from Fishers Island to Center Moriches.

«We are thrilled to bring Regus on as our anchor tenant; they are a true testament to Staten Island's readiness for this area to be a true live, work, play environment,» Petracca said.

Salgado, a Bronx - born minister who lives on Staten Island, is running as a conservative Democrat.

He realized that if these birds lived on such similar islands but were slightly different from one another, there could be just one explanation: They had started out as a single species, but over time and with separation they had drifted apart and changed.

Over a 16 - year period, about half of the orangutans living on the island of Borneo were lost as a result of changes in land cover.

In October 2004 paleoanthropologists announced the discovery of a new human species that lived as recently as 17,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Flores.

However, a talented female poisoner who used her knowledge to lead natives to worship her as a demigod might have been living on an island.

But giant camels that roamed the Yukon about 3.5 million years ago — and presumably their slightly larger relatives living on Ellesmere Island at the same time — had low - crowned teeth best suited for grinding foliage, as today's camels do.

Hurricane Maria's destruction on Puerto Rico could spawn one of the largest mass migration events in the United States» recent history, experts say, as tens of thousands of storm victims flee the island territory to rebuild their lives on the U.S. mainland.

A heavy rainstorm on April 17 had left the air cleaner and cooler, and probably saved a substantial number of lives on the more distant islands as the rain washed the ash off crops and provided fresh drinking water to help stem an incipient epidemic of fever.

The spiders were up to 100 times more abundant on the islands, with as many as 1000 living on a single 2 - metre cactus.

Better known as the hobbit, H. floresiensis was a diminutive hominid that lived roughly 500 kilometers south of Sulawesi on the island of Flores at around the same time the Sulawesi tools were made.

«Sulawesi is an incredible place from the standpoint of species diversity endemic to the island as well as in situ diversification,» he said, noting that most places on the island are home to at least five species of fanged frogs living side by side.

The ancient monkey, known scientifically as Victoriapithecus, first made headlines in 1997 when its fossilized skull was discovered on an island in Kenya's Lake Victoria, where it lived 15 million years ago.

If after 10 years we find it's really as good as it promises, we will put a hundred patent lawyers on it to write a hundred patents a day, and you will spend the rest of your life, and the gross domestic product of your little island, suing us.»

Because people must have traveled across the islands of Southeast Asia to get to Australia, the date suggests humans were moving through Indonesia at the same time as Homo floresiensis, the tiny extinct human nicknamed «the hobbit,» was living on the island of Flores; the last date for that species is 60,000 years ago, although so far there's no evidence of encounters between humans and hobbits.

An analysis of the greater bamboo lemur's current distribution on the island of Madagascar compared to its distribution in the past, as inferred from fossils, suggests that the lemurs used to live over a broader range.

But a third species, M. nesiota, lives on a volcanic island nation in the Indian Ocean known as the Comoros.

Unless we immediately rebuild the infrastructure on the island as well as the lives of the people that support it, this important resource may disappear.

Homo floresiensis, also known as «Hobbit Humans,» lived on the island of Flores in Indonesia.

As of 2013, 727 people live on Tangier Island.