Sentences with phrase «lost the island in»

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The sprouting of these islands of legality, observers predict, will spur other states to open up their cannabis markets lest they lose out on revenue and tourism, much as the casino gambling pioneered in Las Vegas became ubiquitous across the continent.

If your friend came to you on New Year's Day and told you that over the next 12 months they were planning to lose half their body weight, earn a seven - figure income in a field in which they have no experience, and save enough to buy a private island even though they're currently $ 20,000 in credit card debt, you'd probably think they were being a tad unrealistic.

Bitfinex, which is officially incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, has been fined by regulators in the United States and cut off by U.S. banks, and it has lost millions of dollars of customer money in two separate hacks, leading critics to question whether it even has the money it claims to hold.

That half a degree is the difference between low - lying island states surviving, or Arctic ice remaining over the North Pole in summer, or increasing the risk of losing the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet or Greenland ice sheet (either one of which implies an eight - metre sea level rise.)

On Tuesday came the announcement of Citigroup losing 53 per cent of an internal hedge fund's money in a month and bringing $ 17 billion of assets that had been hiding out in the Cayman Islands back onto its balance sheet.

But we also shouldn't lose sight of the fact that several other islands in the Caribbean are also still struggling to meet their citizens basic needs in the wretched aftermath of Hurricane Maria, and Hurricane Irma before it.

Taiwan Milestones Taiwan's president Ma Ying - jeou and his Kuomintang party lost control of important political positions in late November, when Taiwanese voters chose opposition party and independent candidates in local elections across the island.

When Tyra Blomqvist lost her teddy bear in the park, she did a very sensible thing and hung signs around her native Swedish island of Kungsholmen.

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.

For example, the mad scientist has been a recurring trope in horror movies since the very beginning, and movies that feature mad scientists — movies like Frankenstein, Island of Lost Souls and The Fly — can provide a powerful critique of science when it becomes divorced from morality.

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Winemaker Loses Right Hand in Harvest Accident: To veteran winemaker Bruno D'Alfonso, the screams exploding from the neighboring winery were eerily familiar, reminiscent of a sailing trip many years ago to Santa Cruz Island with his former boss, Richard Sanford...

The island witnessed fierce fighting in W.W. II and more than 3000 GI's lost their lives during the island's invasion.

In the Yankee Conference Maine faltered twice against Massachusetts and lost 73 - 60, 79 - 71, leaving the path clear for Connecticut, which beat Rhode Island 95 - 79, to win its 10th straight title.

Greece losing to the Faroe Islands is just as odd as them winning the Euro Championship back in 2004.

Calcavecchia hit rock bottom during the Sunday singles at Kiawah Island in» 91, when he endured one of the most famous meltdowns in golf history, losing the final four holes to allow Colin Montgomerie to steal a halve.

But where Hughes» Wales had lost narrowly to Russia over two legs, having beaten Italy in group games, Berti Vogts» Scotland had opened their campaign by drawing with the Faroe Islands and ended it with a 6 - 0 shoeing in Amsterdam.

New UEFA members Kosovo defeated Faroe Islands 2 - 0 thanks to goals from Albert Bunjaku and Flamur Kastrati in a game that saw both teams lose a player to red cards.

Mom: Christine; Providence, Rhode Island Lost: 24 pounds in 4 months (with 8 pounds to go) I make a point to eat a light breakfast (usually an English muffin with margarine and jam) at home every day instead of at the office, where it easily morphs into something enormous and sweet.

A mom from California, Cristal Logothetis, was heartsick to see families and young children losing their lives in an effort to reach the small island of Kos off the coast of Greece after fleeing Syria.

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.

The mayor kicked off his «City Hall in Your Borough» week on Staten Island in an effort to «better» serve constituents in the GOP - leaning borough — the only one he lost in the 2013 election.

With fears of losing a congressional seat, a Rhode Island state representative has created a bill to lure people to the state, proposing to pay «middle class» families up to $ 10,000 in tax credits or incentive payments to become residents for a year.

This is, in my memory, the fifth time that someone has tried,» former Congressman Michael McMahon, the Staten Island Democrat who lost the seat to Mr. Grimm in 2010, told the Observer shortly after Mr. Recchia's brutal 13 point loss.

Gentile first entered public office as a state senator representing parts of Brooklyn and Staten Island in 1997, but lost his seat to then - Councilman Martin Golden in 2002.

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.

Rep. Michael Grimm was reelected to his Staten Island - based House seat despite losing backing of the GOP after a 20 - count indictment in April on tax related and other charges tied to his ownership of a Manhattan restaurant prior to his career in Congress.

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 cred.

He won Staten Island in his 2012 reelection bid, 78,000 to 74,000, after having lost it in 2008 by 7,000 votes.

Updated 4:23 p.m. Democrats have a tough decision to make on Staten Island: How much of a play do they make in the special election for a seat they are likely to lose?

Staten Island is the only borough de Blasio lost in the 2013 mayoral election and locals haven't warmed to him or many of his more progressive policies since.

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.

Staten Island was the only borough de Blasio lost in 2013 against Republican Joe Lhota.

Also spotted were Jerry Speyer, another real estate mogul, and Andrew Farkas, who hired Cuomo at his firm Island Capital after Cuomo lost his first bid for governor in 2002.

Staten Island was the only borough de Blaiso lost in the 2013 campaign.

«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.

The $ 330 million Ferris wheel project in Staten Island lost out on state funding from Governor Andrew Cuomo's economic development program yesterday.

When Governor Cuomo double - dared the breakaways to show their hands in the Capitol, Silver, whose call the vote was, demanded that newly elected Rudy Giuliani and the City Council first submit a «home rule message» agreeing that the city wanted to shake loose its most Republican borough — knowing Rudy couldn't afford to lose the Island's tax base or its GOP votes.

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.

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.

The Clinton campaign told top donors at a briefing Wednesday, the day after her big victory in New York, that Clinton could well lose in Rhode Island, a person familiar with the briefing said on condition of anonymity because the session was confidential.

«Obamacare has burdened New York families with unaffordable premiums, rendered some insurance plans unusable because of high deductibles, and caused people to lose their doctors,» said Donovan, a Staten Island Republican, in a statement.

Since returning to the Island, Murphy has lived with his father, who lost his seat in Congress and did prison time as a result of the Abscam scandal.