Sentences with phrase «new island nation»

Hopefully he is able to leave a similar impression on this new island nation.

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Split between two islands, the country of New Zealand has — at 8,700 miles — one of the longest coastlines of any nation, not to mention some of the world's most dramatic landscapes.

The date - line dispute between Kiribati, the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, and a handful of other island nations was especially heated when each side claimed that it would be the first to celebrate the new millenniNew Zealand, and a handful of other island nations was especially heated when each side claimed that it would be the first to celebrate the new millenninew millennium.

Singapore, the smallest nation in Asia, occupies a 225 - square - mile expanse of swampy, tropical islands — an area about the size of Trenton, New Jersey.

Australia's financial intelligence agency published new regulatory stipulations today for digital currency exchanges operating within the island nation.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Connecticut has the third highest electricity rates in the nation, while Massachusetts ranks fourth, Rhode Island is fifth, New Hampshire ranks sixth, New York is eighth, Vermont is ninth, New Jersey is tenth, and Maine comes in at eleventh.

Starting next week, tour operator Cuba Travel Services will begin offering what it says is the first regularly scheduled direct charter service from New York to Havana since President Barack Obama restored diplomatic relations with the island nation in December.

In many ways — homeownership, educational attainment, income, and demographics — Staten Island more closely resembles the nation than the rest of New York City.

Even Democrat - controlled Rhode Island, with the nation's second - worst funded pension system, moved to a new pension system that is based around a defined contribution component in 2011.

They will vote on the bill on Tuesday, and if it passes, Rhode Island will be the nation's tenth state — and the final state in New England — to allow gay marriage...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand's booming tourism industry is emerging as a cornerstone of an economy hit by declining dairy exports, but the hordes descending on silver screen locations such as Hobbiton are stretching the small island nation's resources.

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New Zealand is currently atop the Westgate Superbook odds list at 2/1, but the small island nation of Fiji sits right behind them at 9/4.

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Rep. John Katko says he will support Trump's plan to impose new restrictions on travel between the United States and Cuba, rolling back efforts to normalize relations with the island nation.

That wretched tradition has continued down through the foundation of Irish Republicanism by those who regarded their own Protestant and «Saxon» nation as the only true one on the Irish island, through anti-monarchist attitudes to Australian Aborigines from the Victorian Period to the present day, through Hendrik Verwoerd and Ian Smith, through attempts to abrogate the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand, and through the patriation of the Canadian Constitution against the wishes, both of the Aboriginal peoples to whom the Crown had numerous treaty obligations, and of the government of Quebec.

«With the complete transformation of the Long Island Railroad, New York is recapturing the bold ambition that made our infrastructure the envy of the nation and building for the future.

Senator Carl L. Marcellino said, «The Long Island Railroad is the busiest commuter train system in the nation, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers rely on it every day to get to and from work.

I want YOU to join us in a nation - wide event the weekend of October 21st at the Merrell Institute on Long Island, New York!

Investing in the nation's newest veterinary college and the first in the New York metropolitan area is a transformative event for Long Island University, for the region, and for animal health, which will create great New York jobs and research opportunities.

New York's roads are some of the most congested in the nation, with commutes from Long Island, White Plains, and Northern and Southern New Jersey averaging upwards of two hours.

She headed a sprawling EPA region that includes New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and seven tribal nations.

Shortly after President Barack Obama announced plans to normalize relations with Cuba and to rescind the island nation's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans to lead a New York State Trade Mission there.

If implemented, Cuomo's plan would give New York the most expansive leave law in the nation — the laws in New Jersey and California only provide pay benefits for a maximum of six weeks; in Rhode Island, the maximum is four weeks.

The quixotic idea of Long Island as the nation's 51st state, sparked by frustration over high taxes and lack of attention from Albany, has taken a step forward with Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's decision to support a new commission to study its feasibility.

Cuomo chose Long Island to make his announcement, a New York City suburb where property taxes are among the highest in the nation.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon's wife, Georganne, also visited the island nation a month before the New York trip in January, according to the Washington Post.

While hate crimes have increased in New York City and across the nation, police statistics show they declined last year on Long Island.

He added that in 2006 Babylon became the first Long Island town to adopt Energy Star standards for new home construction and also enacted the nation's most comprehensive green building code.

According to the United Health Foundation, New York is the 10th healthiest state in the nation, just behind Washington and ahead of Rhode Island.

From Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, to the Dominican Republican and other Caribbean nations in Irma's path, New York is here to help.»

The vice president of the Staten Island Democratic Association, Ellicott is also on the executive board of the Stonewall Democrats of New York City and a board member of BiNet - USA, the nation's oldest advocacy organization for bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer - identified, and unlabeled people.

Along Niagara Street Friday, members of the Seneca Nation of Indians joined Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown in unveiling a new entry sign for what is now «Unity Island.»

The Office for New Americans also recently launched another first - in - the - nation program to support parents and families caring for unaccompanied and / or undocumented children through a partnership with the Children's Village and its Office for New Americans Centers at Central American Refugee Center in Long Island and Neighbors Link in Westchester County.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Three of the nation's busiest airports all but shut down, more than 1,400 flights were canceled and the nation's largest commuter rail system suspended services Sunday as a blizzard churned across New York City and Long IslaNEW YORK (AP)-- Three of the nation's busiest airports all but shut down, more than 1,400 flights were canceled and the nation's largest commuter rail system suspended services Sunday as a blizzard churned across New York City and Long IslaNew York City and Long Island.

A New York utility, the Long Island Power Authority, plans to construct a wind farm off eastern Long Island that would be the nation's largest offshore wind energy project, three times larger than one due to go online this year off Rhode Island.

From the east, the commute from Long Island to New York City is one of the worst commutes in the nation.

For the record, New Mexico had the weakest increase in jobs in the nation as well as the smallest decline in the unemployment rate, while Rhode Island and Mississippi tied for the worst current unemployment rate and Maine and Connecticut saw the smallest increase in inflation - adjusted state GDP.

Just a month after the U.S. government eased travel restrictions on Cuba, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is planning a trip to the island nation.

Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy said: «Finding and improving new energy sources and creating green jobs are vital to Long Island and our nation's economy, environment and national security.

Fewer deductions means a higher federal tax bill — especially for Long Island, Westchester County and New York City residents, who have some of the nation's highest property taxes.

One warm evening this fall a pair of U.S. Army UH - 60M Blackhawk helicopters cruised low over New York City's Staten Island, providing security for the United Nations General Assembly's annual meeting in nearby Manhattan.

Zika is not new to the U.S. Even as early as 2007, when the mosquito - borne disease had its first large outbreak in the Pacific island nation of Micronesia, the virus directly touched the U.S. — sickening one American traveler.

The results confirm that Vanuatu's first people were of the Lapita culture and arrived 3,000 years ago from South East Asia, followed by Papuan arrivals from the island of New Britain, in the Bismarck Archipelago just to the east of New Guinea and part of the nation of Papua New Guinea.

The displaced islanders, thousands of whom were awaiting flights yesterday from San Juan's Luis Muñoz Marín airport, might be among the nation's newest «climate refugees,» a demographic that includes former residents of southernmost Louisiana and the shrinking islands of Alaska's Bering Strait.

A volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea on Friday sent smoke and ash spewing high over the South Pacific island nation, leading some aircraft to alter their flight paths.

Small island nations, meanwhile, called for a series of meetings throughout the year, including a workshop on enhancing mitigation ambition at the United Nations» midyear climate meeting in Bonn, Germany, in May and a ministerial conference on the issue in New York at the U.N. General Assembly in Sepnations, meanwhile, called for a series of meetings throughout the year, including a workshop on enhancing mitigation ambition at the United Nations» midyear climate meeting in Bonn, Germany, in May and a ministerial conference on the issue in New York at the U.N. General Assembly in SepNations» midyear climate meeting in Bonn, Germany, in May and a ministerial conference on the issue in New York at the U.N. General Assembly in September.

The concerns of small island nations will influence the meeting in a new way.

Two weeks ago, environment ministers from Australia, New Zealand and 13 island nations in the South Pacific met in Brisbane, Queensland, to discuss the tests.

New Zealand An island nation in the southwest Pacific Ocean, roughly 1,500 kilometers (some 900 miles) east of Australia.