Sentences with phrase «many small island»

Twelve miles from either coast of the Chesapeake Bay sits a small island in danger of disappearing.

Many young people leave Tangier — some for college, others for the military, some to find partners, since romance can be difficult on such a small island.

Apologies, W.M., but my colleague Geoffrey wrote that headline, and he comes from that small island nation where people think collective nouns can take plural verbs.

Wes Anderson's unique brand of storytelling is perfectly captured in this look at a pair of youngsters in love and how the adults on the small island they live on become frantic trying to find them when they run off together.

Irma has ravaged a series of small islands in the northeast Caribbean, including Barbuda, Saint Martin and the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, ripping down trees and flattening homes and hospitals.

That money, which is mostly held in short - term U.S. bonds and money market funds, was kept in Ireland for years, until an investigation by the European Union into whether the company failed to pay taxes caused it to move its holdings to Jersey, a small island off the coast of Normandy that rarely taxes corporations.

Tetiaroa is made up of 12 smaller islands (called motus), with the resort located on Onetahi, the island historically known as a retreat for Tahitian royalty.

«The U.S. has obviously been clear about where it stands with the Paris Agreement, but it is heartening that 19 other countries reaffirmed their commitment to the agreement,» said Thoriq Ibrahim, minister of energy and environment for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, a group of countries vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

Students on the small island of Caye Caulker had stopped showing up for class.

Earlier this month, Irma devastated several small islands, including Barbuda and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, and caused heavy damage in Cuba and Florida, killing at least 84 people in the Caribbean and the U.S. mainland.

The Hellenic Army does have a presence on the small island, and earlier this month they fired tracer rounds at a Turkish helicopter that flew over its airspace.

Most of its foreign employees and manufacturing facilities were already located in the Caribbean, and Gildan's founder and then CEO Greg Chamandy explained in a press release that the small island nation was attractive because of its high literacy rate and excellent telecommunications system.

«The Tesla team has [built solar grids] for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too,» Musk said.

Goose Island, the smallest island of the three, is the first predicted to be completely submerged - before 2050 (Figs 3 and 4)- regardless of the RSLR scenario (linear, low, mid, or high) chosen.

On September 18, 2017, the worst natural disaster in the history of Dominica ravaged this small island nation.

Instead, when you make this argument to people about Singapore, lots of people go, «Oh, but it's a small island Asian country,» they start saying, «But, you shouldn't look at it,» and I'm like, «Really?

Among the «many smaller islands» to which Musk is referring is the island of Ta'u in American Samoa.

Billiton has origin back in 1851 as a tin mine company on a small island Billiton (Belitung) in Indonesia while BHP (Broken Hill Proprietary) began its journey in Broken Hill, Australia in 1885 and two merged in June 2001 as BHP Billiton.

Malta, a small island nation in the Mediterranean, has fashioned itself as a leader in digital ledger technology regulation.

«The Tesla team has done this for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too,» Musk said.

With help from law firms that specialize in offshore tax shelters, the company canvassed multiple jurisdictions before settling on the small island of Jersey, which typically does not tax corporate income.

In the long run it will cause a rise in ocean levels that will threaten many small islands and deltas.

Its interesting that sitting on a small island in the middle of the pacific ocean, I really understand what you are getting at.

(CNN)-- It was a shipwreck of African migrants off the coast of Lampedusa, a small island in the Mediterranean, that spurred Pope Francis into action.

The question becomes then, do we love the small island of knowledge more or do we care to sail the «sea of infinite mystery»?

But on this small island, we are still largely strangers to this new movement.

On small islands animals over many generations get smaller (can you figure that out?).

You guys should have a convention on some small island, that can easily be bombed with tomahawk missiles.

His position was ostensibly a simple case of logistics: there are too many people already on this small island: time to pull up the drawbridge.

Here, with a few exceptions, usually in some of the smaller islands of the Pacific, Christians have been in the minority.

Four years ago this very week, my own story began to intersect with the small island of Haiti when I stepped off a plane in Port - au - Prince to the sweltering heat of midday.

Christianity was widely disseminated in the East Indies, although, except on a few of the smaller islands, converts were few.

Considering we're quite a small island, I think that's brilliant.

Some smaller islands spared by the earlier hurricane withstood flooding, landslides, and significant damage with Maria, including Guadeloupe and Dominica.

On one small island, a whole flock of them was gathered around something, pecking away at it.

Four days after a tsunami hit some of the smaller islands in Indonesia, the death toll has risen to 413, with nearly 300 people still missing.

The small island north of Scotland has just over 8,000 people residing there with a very small Muslim community, including a growing number of Syrian refugees.

They are satisfied if they can create a few small islands of Christian life, leaving the future radiation to the Holy Spirit.»

Except in a few small islands in the Pacific, until 1914 the Christian communities which arose from missions from the West were small minorities, Christian enclaves in overwhelming non-Christian populations, dependent on continued infusions from Europe and America and regarded by the non-Christian neighbors as aliens, the religious phase of Western imperialism and colonialism.

Out of an ocean of nothingness with fearful struggle, the work of man rises slowly like a small island....

We will risk this for the same reason that Zephaniah, Isaiah and Paul were willing to risk a wild and joyous song when they could so easily have sung sadly in the shadows that surrounded their small islands of fragile personal joy.

He knew of a cove on a small island where he and his best friend used to hunt and thought it was the perfect spot to build a pound and, in fact, the original owners had planned to do just that.

I wanted to inspire people to practice and reach people beyond the small island where I live.

(it is not easily available on our small island)

I am not sure I can find ground ginger (I live on a small island off the coast of Honduras), but I can always get fresh ginger, just wondering if it would work and?

Edited by Molly S. Wales — Photos by Dry Creek Kitchen Recipes: Parsley and Garlic Crusted Quailwith Heirloom Tomatoes Marinated Vegetables for the Grill Renowned chef Mark Purdy's education began early, on the small island of Nantucket where he and his brother caught blue fish at the beach down the street from their summer home.

It is one of the smallest islands to be divided between two countries, an arrangement that has persisted since 1648.

I'm portuguese I live in a small island called Flores.

«It's a small island,» he explains.

And I really want to see some of the smaller islands like Molokai, Lanai and Niihau.