Sentences with phrase «on hundreds of islands»

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Hundreds of passengers and up to 1,000 businesses on the Italian island have sued or are in the process of suing Carnival.

Emergency officials said hundreds of residents, along with workers at a silica mine and the Lizard Island resort on the Great Barrier Reef had been evacuated.

Others resisted incorporating places like Puerto Rico simply on racial grounds, as the island was home to hundreds of thousands of people with African roots.

When I read some of your posts, it seems to me that if you had billions of dollars (or even a few hundreds of millions), instead of spending it on yachts, mansions, islands and other toys (not that there is anything wrong with that per se of course), you would probably sigh the Giving Pledge too or at least donate a lot to charity.

In 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake decimated Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people, destroying vital infrastructure, and changing the lives of everyone who lived on the island.

Suspended by Arabella Dorman is a collection of hundreds of items of refugee clothing found mainly on beaches on the Greek island of Lesbos and garments left behind in the camps of Calais.

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.

«On Manhattan Island alone, there are hundreds of pizzerias,» Kolaj points out.

Coffee producers from 26 countries submitted more than 250 entries from Kona Coffee Farms & Plantations On Hawaii Island and there are hundreds of coffee farms in Kona, from Holualoa to Kealakekua, that harvest the uniquely Hawaiian Kona coffee bean, as well as boutique coffee finest and best Hawaiian best kona peaberry coffee organic 100 % pure Kona coffee from our Hawaii plantation.

I had the joy of seeing a vanilla farm while on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, and I was stunned: hundreds of trees with vanilla orchid vines wrapped around the trunks; unfortunately they were not flowering or fruiting on my visit.

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

Hundreds of competitors comprising 24 teams will focus their binoculars and scopes on birds they spot from the Cape and Islands to the Berkshires.

Hundreds jammed the City Council chambers and spilled into adjoining hallways, including a slew of Long Island mayors, town officials, state and county legislators and others who will depend on Suozzi to bring federal money to local projects.

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.

Julio Rhymer, the executive director of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority, quibbles with that, saying the public utility had long - established plans to bring in hundreds of utility workers after the storms but needed to phase in their arrival on the islands in an orderly fIslands Water and Power Authority, quibbles with that, saying the public utility had long - established plans to bring in hundreds of utility workers after the storms but needed to phase in their arrival on the islands in an orderly fislands in an orderly fashion.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was at a loss for words on Friday, when he visited the island for a press conference on repaving streets and a reporter asked about the hundreds of turkeys roaming the borough.

Hundreds of New York adult day care centers including 80 on Long Island operate without state or local government oversight, leaving disabled adults and seniors «at potential risk,» according to State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

The state Legislature approved a bill that expands pine barrens protections to hundreds of acres in Mastic and Shoreham on Long Island, and could block plans for two commercial solar farms.

There's good news and bad news from the Long Island Power Authority on work to restore power to the hundreds of thousands of Long Islanders still without electricity thanks to Irene, the hurricane that became a tropical storm just before it hit over the weekend.

The Times uncovered details on scores of assaults at Rikers Island through interviews with current and former inmates, correction officers and mental health clinicians at the jail, and by reviewing hundreds of pages of legal, investigative and jail records.

Loved ones and hundreds of colleagues gathered Friday on Long Island to remember firefighter Ray Pfeifer.

It included more money to pave roads, the hiring of hundreds of seasonal parks department employees and a $ 50 million pool on Staten Island.

STATEN ISLAND — Hundreds of deer would be sterilized in a three - year program proposed as a way to curb the animals» population boom on Staten IISLAND — Hundreds of deer would be sterilized in a three - year program proposed as a way to curb the animals» population boom on Staten IslandIsland.

Hundreds of motorists were stranded Saturday on the Long Island Expressway and other parts of Suffolk County.

In his «I Have a Dream Speech,» Dr. King reminded us that one hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, blacks still lived on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

Proposed by state Assemblyman Robert Sweeney (D - Lindenhurst) and state Senator Ken LaValle (R - Port Jefferson), the Long Island Water Quality Control Act would have established a timeline for curbing nitrogen pollution flowing to ground and surface waters from hundreds of thousands of septic systems on Long Island.

To help close a city budget gap, the Department of Correction has proposed to lease several hundred vacant beds on Rikers Island to local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.

Hundreds of Low - Income NYers to Hold «People's Assembly» on Long Island to Pass Overlooked Legislation Saturday August 18, 2012 at 07:16 am

In February, ICE sweeps on Staten Island netted five Mexican nationals, coinciding with immigration authorities arresting hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least six states following an executive order Trump signed the previous month.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Ofer Biton, who helped Rep. Michael Grimm raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for his maiden 2010 campaign, has been arrested by the FBI and charged with lying on immigration documents, according to published reports.

Albany, NY — State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester), New York City Council Member Ritchie Torres, Chair of the Committee on Public Housing, Senator Diane Savino (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn), Senator Adriano Espaillat (D - Manhattan / Bronx), Democratic Ranking Member of the Senate Housing Committee, and more than 500 hundred New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) tenants, today rallied at the state capitol to call for increased state funding to update and repair deplorable conditions in NYCHA developments in the Bronx and beyond.

In recent years this has added hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to the property taxes of my constituents on Grand Island and the Tonawandas.

Ms. Pellegrino, a schoolteacher in Baldwin and a union activist, continued teaching during her campaign, which was joined by hundreds of volunteers who knocked on doors in Massapequa, Babylon and West Islip, on Long Island's South Shore.

Hundreds of protesters gathered at Dutch Kills Green in Long Island City on Saturday for the #QueensResponds March.

Mr. Skelos, 67, a Long Island Republican, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, 33, were found guilty on Friday of bribery, extortion and conspiracy charges, for schemes that exploited the senator's position to pressure a developer, an environmental technology company and a medical malpractice insurer to provide the son with hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees and a no - show job.

Puerto Rico's governor says there will be no classes on Monday because hundreds of schools still do not have power or water after the island took a hit from Hurricane Irma.

About 170 million years ago, huge, long - necked dinosaurs called sauropods left hundreds of footprints on the floor of a shallow saltwater lagoon on a warm island in the midlatitudes.

Nearly five hundred miles farther to the east, the British resident on the island of Ternate heard «several very distinct reports like heavy cannon,» and sent another cruiser, the Teignmouth, to investigate.

A volcano erupted for the third time in as many months on the western Indonesian island of Sumatra, forcing hundreds of villagers to evacuate, officials said.

True, the timing of the die - off was suspicious — malathion has been known to kill crustaceans, and the spraying had already killed hundreds of fish on Staten Island.

Hundreds of pages of plans, maps and charts detailed the construction of a state - of - the - art eco-city called Dongtan on China's Chongming Island, at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

In 1689, botany enthusiast Hans Sloane sailed home to England, bringing with him hundreds of natural curiosities from his 15 - month stay on a largely unexamined island called Jamaica.

A study evaluating the origins of shrubs and herbs on a group of islands in the Arctic Circle finds that seeds arrived from hundreds of kilometers away to restore plant communities lost during the last ice age — all in a matter of a few thousand years.

If after 10 years we find it's really as good as it promises, we will put a hundred patent lawyers on it to write a hundred patents a day, and you will spend the rest of your life, and the gross domestic product of your little island, suing us.»

They are trapped on an island of habitat, surrounded on all sides by freeways on which hundreds of thousands of cars roar past every day.

Seven hundred or so people who live on Tangier Island — 170 kilometres south - east of Washington DC — may see much of the island vanish under rising Island — 170 kilometres south - east of Washington DC — may see much of the island vanish under rising island vanish under rising water.

«Power is off all across the island and the streets are deserted,» said Lionel Dosdosa, an International Organization for Migration coordinator on Bohol island, the epicenter of an October 15 earthquake that killed 222 people and displaced hundreds of thousands.

But it's been argued that these remains are from Homo sapiens, who, after becoming stuck on the island, underwent «insular dwarfism» over hundreds of thousands of years, growing smaller to help them survive.

Every day we treat hundreds of patients who rely on Rhode Island Hospital for the very best care available.

Hundreds of thousands of people will be descending on the island, so the city is doing all they can to capitalize on this influx by creating a bunch of Super Bowl attractions.