Sentences with phrase «long lost islands»

At any time, you can just wander off on your own to battle monsters, find hidden treasures, or maybe even long lost islands containing really strange inhabitants...

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Long Island's population has also been relatively stagnant too, as the region steadily loses its youth.

And there have also been customer complaints that Wag's walkers have lost dogs, with one Long Island customer claiming that the company tried to bribe her after a dog walker lost her Beagle - Labrador mix.

Her Long Island neighborhood, filled with lawyers, stockbrokers and firefighters, lost scores of people in the attacks.

«The African - American Christian community does not need to be concerned about losing people to Islam,» says Calvin O. Butts III, senior pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and president of the College of Old Westbury in Long Island.

«Los Angeles has been doing just fine without football for the last decade; there has not been a mass exodus from Seattle after the Sonics left; the Long Island suburbs will not go vacant with the Islanders moving to Brooklyn, just as they survived the Nets leaving; Montreal has shown no ill effects after losing the Expos while the Nationals decidedly did NOT put DC «on the map»»...

A year ago East Coast power Garden City High of Long Island schlepped to the San Diego suburbs and lost 8 - 7 to Torrey Pines High.

(It's clear Cuomo, who has never recognized Lazio that I can recall, was referring there to the former Long Island congressman, who served four terms — from 1993 to 2001 — and then went to lobby for JPMorgan Chase after he lost his 2000 US Senate campaign against Democrat Hillary Clinton).

Since taking over the committee from Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen after the Democrats lost the majority in the 2010 midterms, Israel, who hails from Long Island, has instituted an aggressive campaign to take back the House.

But the party is split among various factions within the chamber, even if Republican incumbent Michael Venditto ends up losing a razor - thin Senate race on Long Island to Democrat John Brooks, which is now the subject of a court challenge.

Donations went to State Senator John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican who's now the majority leader, State Senator Mark Grisanti, a Western New York Republican who lost reelection, and the Kings County Democratic County Committee, among many others.

Long Island Democrat David Calone, who narrowly lost a party primary a year ago, has decided against making a second try next year to take on Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin.

But it's not lost on me that Berntsen counts among his strongest supporters members of the Long Island Tea Party movement that Paladino needs if he's to have a shot at beating Lazio on his home turf.

The State University of New York (SUNY) has repeatedly claimed it was forced to shut down Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Brooklyn and sell the property to a developer because the hospital was losing millions of dollars a month.

«It's clear people on Long Island would definitely lose under this tax reform,» said Rep. Peter King (R - Seaford), who has joined other New York lawmakers in lobbying Republican leaders and the president on the issue.

There's been speculation for some time that DeFrancisco might be mulling retirement from the Senate, and that talk intensified when he lost his bid to lead the GOP conference to Long Island Sen. John Flanagan, who, for what it's worth, has also been mentioned as a potential gubernatorial contender in 2018.

To ensure «we don't lose any momentum with the third track, East Side Access tunnel and the new Penn Station projects,» Cuomo should nominate someone with commuter rail experience «in addition to the traditional urban bus and subway management experience,» said Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association, the region's largest business group.

A source close to the assemblyman tried to paint Ackerman as the interloper in the newly - drawn district, insisting the Long Island resident long ago lost his Queens cLong Island resident long ago lost his Queens clong ago lost his Queens cred.

SUNY officials on Friday night released nine proposals from developers and health care groups bidding to take over the state - run, money - losing Long Island College Hospital.

«Lives have been lost, homes and property destroyed, and businesses large and small remain paralyzed across New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley and the greater metropolitan region.»

Although Trump is fond of saying how he never loses, the billionaire suffered a defeat in his backyard when he sought to build a huge restaurant and banquet hall on Jones Beach, a public beach 40 miles east of New York City on Long Island.

«If I lose this race, then Bill de Blasio will be picking the pockets of each and every family in this district on Long Island,» McGrath says in a TV ad released mid-February.

However, Congresswoman Kathleen Rice, from Long Island, lost by only two percent of the vote to Schneiderman for the attorney general position eight years ago.

DeFrancisco ultimately lost the leadership role to Long Island Sen. John Flanagan.

First, Lazio, a Wall Street lobbyist and former Long Island congressman who lost a Senate race to Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2000, will have to tell the state Board of Elections how much money he's raised since Jan. 15, when he reported having a mere $ 637,000 in the bank (compared to $ 16.1 million for Attorney General Cuomo).

Recent polls have shown that while Trump is losing badly in New York to Democrat Hillary Clinton, Republicans have been buoyed by the fact he's been doing well on Long Island and upstate, where key competitive Senate races are taking place.

«If I lose this race, then Bill de Blasio will be picking the pockets of each and every family in this district and on Long Island,» GOPer Chris McGrath says in an ad shot in his car while driving around the Nassau County district.

Long Island Democrats appeared to lose one open seat in the State Assembly but maintained another, while incumbent Assembly members in both major parties Islandwide appeared headed toward victory, according to precinct returns Tuesday night.

«I have lost all patience with Amtrak,» he told reporters during a stop on Long Island Wednesday afternoon.

While the Catskills town of Prattsville was virtually wiped off the map and more than 500,000 people lost power on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley and Catskills regions upstate, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo conducted separate helicopter tours of damaged areas across New York, garnering glowing reviews in local papers.

But it's also likely true that a unified Democratic conference spending enough money could have made a difference in races Democrats narrowly lost to the GOP, like in the Long Island showdown between incumbent Senator Carl Marcellino and Democrat Jim Gaughran.

Dowling College on Long Island will lose its accreditation on Aug. 31 and must implement a plan for students to complete their degrees at other institutions, according to a report from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Again, I hope he gets his wish, cause then the Republicans would become an irrelevant minority in the State Senate as well as they lost seats in Western Long Island and what little they have left in Brooklyn, and the Grisanti seat, which would revert back to the Dems.

A Long Island town supervisor who touted an ethics - reform agenda while in office lost his re-election bid — and on the way out gave questionable raises and transfers to nearly 200 workers.

Long Island school districts stand to recover more than $ 117 million in lost state financial aid during the coming year, according to the region's education leaders who say the money will help compensate for tighter state property tax limits.

Adam Haber, a businessman and Democrat, lost a State Senate race on Long Island to Elaine Phillips, the Republican mayor of the village of Flower Hill.

The state comptroller's office estimated Wednesday that a work stoppage could cost New York $ 50 million a day in lost economic activity and be insurmountable to some Long Island businesses relying on summer tourism.

The groups estimated one in four Long Island workers — 338,000 — will earn less than $ 15 in 2021, and will either get pay raises or lose their jobs.

A dozen public schools across the state, including two on Long Island, risk losing their chance to win coveted national «Blue Ribbon» awards for academic excellence because of the drop in the number of students who took standardized Common Core tests this spring.

Long Island hospitals stand to lose about $ 3.2 billion in revenue during the next decade if the Affordable Care Act is repealed without a meaningful replacement, the region's main hospital lobbying group said.

As of 11:30 p.m. last night, more than 40,000 customers throughout Long Island had lost electricity as a result of the storm, PSEG Long Island said.

Republicans even lost some districts that historically have been reliably Republican, especially on Long Island.

Over 4,000 Teamsters on Long Island have lost 30 percent of their pensions, and the pensions are now in danger of collapse.

The seat held by Martin, the Republican Senator running for Congress on Long Island, will come down to a contest between Republican Elaine Phillips, mayor of Flower Hill, a small town in Nassau, and Adam Haber, a Democratic businessman who lost a challenge to Martins 56 - 43 percent during the last election.

While New York City, Long Island, and portions of the Hudson Valley are relatively stable, upstate areas like Buffalo and Niagara Falls have lost nearly one third of their population.

Ackerman, a Queens Democrat whose district cuts into Nassau County, was chosen, the source said, because the population formula dictates that New York City lose almost one full seat and Long Island a portion of one.

Long Island taxpayers overall lose big, local business leaders, lawmakers and economists have told Newsday, because the bill eliminates the full deduction for state and local taxes, called SALT.

Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto said that the net impact of the state - aid cuts - the amount of money Long Island schools would lose as a portion of their overall budgets - is closer to 2.1 percent and that the statewide average is 2.9 percent.

But some suburbs like Long Island are also losing young people due to housing costs, including property taxes, while older residents leave because of both those taxes and the estate tax.

Glenn R. Rink, the chief executive of AbTech Industries, likened an email from a Glenwood Management executive to a «death threat»: If Adam Skelos, who was working at AbTech as a consultant, didn't get a raise, then AbTech could lose out on a $ 12 million storm water treatment contract on Long Island.