Sentences with phrase «on a small island on»

The best - known lakeside town is Flores, which is set on a small island on the southern end of the lake.

My husband's family has a summer home on a small island on the sunshine coast.

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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.

The pygmy sloth, the smallest of the sloths that only lives on an island of the Caribbean coast of Panama, is critically endangered.

While growing up, Jake and his younger sister, Caroline Danehy, spent many summers in the small town of Fair Harbor on Fire Island.

MuleSoft was the brainchild of founder Ross Mason, who began it as a small open - source project in 2003 when he and his wife were living on the island of Malta.

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.

This smaller, more out - of - the - way island means that there will be more room and accessibility for the aircraft on the deck, which will improve maintenance times and turnarounds.

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.

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

Swezey & Newins Inc., which operates the small chain of Swezey's department stores on New York's Long Island, faced a dilemma.

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.

While the island has defaulted on small debt payments in the past, a default at GDB would be the most serious yet.

Luxembourg, a nation smaller than Rhode Island with a long history in mining, has bet 200 million euros — more than $ 225 million — on this industry that does not exist.

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

During their time off, they enjoy the town's small parks and public beaches on the Long Island Sound, not to mention socializing at the numerous golf and yacht clubs.

My interest in the intersection of money and meaning was formalized when I studied abroad in Madagascar, living in a small town on the southeast part of the island called Fort Dauphin.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visits the holiday island in northern Greece on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016 where a state of emergency has been declared as a forest fire burns out of control for a third day, gutting homes and small farms.

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.

The Cayman Islands is a small group of islands just off the coast of Florida, and its economy depends heavily on American tourism, offshore finance, and offshore international business comIslands is a small group of islands just off the coast of Florida, and its economy depends heavily on American tourism, offshore finance, and offshore international business comislands just off the coast of Florida, and its economy depends heavily on American tourism, offshore finance, and offshore international business companies.

We fished each day and enjoyed daily lunches of freshly - caught fireside grilled fish on several of the many small picturesque islands in the middle of the «grand» lakes.

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.

That wouldn't be the first time the island has missed a payment — as in August the small U.S. territory failed to make a $ 58 million payment on its Public Finance Corporation bonds — but it would mark the largest loan it has missed a payment on so far.

It is known that a small population of mammoths survived on St. Paul Island, Alaska, up until 3700 BC, which is before the time when some think the Book of Mormon describes elephants in the Book of Ether.

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

Our family rented small summer apartments on Long Island and returned each Labor Day to see the city new yet distressed ¯ fresh excavations, more steel frames covered with thin glass skin, sky cranes hoisting tons of stuff forty stories or more.

Ted is a Catholic priest on a remote island off the coast of Ireland, and he deals with small but hilarious issues in his parish.

And our smallest, her eyes are an island of brown, and here we are all, surrounding her in a thousand ways, engulfing her in love, endlessly, forever, lapping up on her shores and feeling ourselves abundantly, wildly, lucky.

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

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.

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

The federal government is auctioning off six historic lighthouses — some of which stand on their own small, manmade island - style platforms.

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

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.

Reached at a motor home park in Providence, Rhode Island, Store spoke of the surge of support he's seen in recent months — the 60 like - minded people (including someone who works for Homeland Security, he boasted) who joined his small crew on the Mall in Washington, and the hundreds who gathered in Times Square in New York.

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'm from Denmark and the best food I had traveling was on the small french island La Reunion.

(it is not easily available on our small island)

Located just north of the square, this small store sells everything to do with mastic, the famous resin from a certain tree grown on the Greek island of Chios.

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.

Led by Executive Chef Thomas Russo, Steelpan will introduce a fresh and tropical menu that features savory appetizers, small bites and entrées, including local seafood and produce, island bowls and inventive spins on familiar favorites.

In 1953, seven small dairy Co-ops on Canada's Prince Edward Island banded together to create an organization they felt would best utilize their individual strengths and help them compete regionally against large producers.

Yvonne Fournier, mayor of the town of Hane on the island of Ua Huka and proud proprietor of an eponymously named restaurant, served - up a more manageable umu for a smaller contingent (about 200) of select patrons.

Then it was off to Amsterdam and Heineken world headquarters, then Africa again, and on to a small French island in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Mauritius.

Inspired by an ancient Celtic myth, the «Hawk of Achill» spot is set in a small fishing village on Achill, a rugged island — steeped in folklore and myth — off the coast of Ireland.

Zanzibar, 1897 In the Kew Bulletin (1892, p. 88) the following information respecting chillies was given in an article on the Agricultural Resources of Zanzibar, contributed by Sir John Kirk, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.: — «The small red peppers or chillies are largely grown in the more dry and rocky part of the island, where the upheaved coral presents a honeycombed surface...