Sentences with phrase «obscure island country»

For such a small and obscure island country, the Solomon Islands played an unpredictably large role in World War II (as the character Jim experiences in The Bird Skinner).

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We are on a desert island, in a town at the edge of a crumbling empire, at an obscure farm in the remote heart of the country, or in the middle of a war.

For people in the developed world, the arcane language and wonky procedures of the United Nations» climate change negotiations can obscure the existential threat global warming poses to low - lying islands and countries that permanently teeter on the edge of drought and famine.