Sentences with phrase «on island»

In the most cited experiment a male monkey on an island with several females was faithful to three consorts until they were given chemical contraceptives, when he took up with three other females.

At 4 a.m. on September 25, Abdel and his family arrived on the island before the sun rose over the blue waters of the harbor.

Among the new arrivals on the island are also refugees like Abdel - those fleeing persecution, war or religious or ethnic strife.

«In March 2011, over 7,000 immigrants were on the island, which has a population of 6,000 people.»

One of the writers at the time whose name was Foigny, like Francis Bacon, placed his imaginary utopia on an island in the southern seas which he called Terra Australe.

Nowhere is the missionary invasion more evident than on the island of Hispanola, where I recently served as a pastor in the Dominican Evangelical Church in the city of Barahona in the Dominican Republic.

An inquiry looking into care homes in Jersey has asked the Catholic Church on the island for records kept at an orphanage.

A localized tsunami has killed 23 people and left over 160 missing on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

Whether she remained unaffiliated from the institutional church over the next fifteen years is difficult to determine online; she still identified as Christian, as evidenced in her participation at the 2009 «Alive on the Island Festival of Christian Unity» (which also featured such artists as Bill Gaither, MercyMe, and Jeremy Camp).

In a sermon, the pastor of one of the largest Pentecostal churches on the island called the action of the Geishas patriotic and then declared that these women should give more to the church from their income.

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There are many oranges produced on this island, and it is one of the most popular honeymoon sites.

On 1 March, 1947, at a memorial rally on the island for the independence movement of 1919, two people were killed by government forces.

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That's what he's seen and heard in his many summers on the island.

The religion of today is from Rome, All the Christians and Apostles had been killed by 70 ad except for John who was imprisoned on the Island of Patmos, probably working in a coal mine.

Unless he's on the golf course or eating out (he played golf with Jordan before the party), Barack Obama is quite the loner, nestled up in an 8,100 square - foot, $ 12 million estate on the island's North Shore, paying rent in the tens of thousands of dollars a week.

It was unnecessary for me to remind the Dublin audience of the history of oppression of the people of Ireland by English sovereigns and governments, and by colonists put on the island to maintain British control of it.

That effort involved 40 days and nights of rain to drown every single living thing except good fish and that which boarded a large wooden boat and dispersed themselves on island continents thousands of miles from where the boat eventually landed.

A Samaritan's Purse plane was the first humanitarian delivery to land on St. Martin after Irma earlier this month, thanks in part to efforts by Jonathan Falwell — son of the late Jerry Falwell and pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia — who happened to be vacationing on the island when the hurricane hit.

Falwell — son of the late Jerry Falwell and pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia — helped coordinate early relief efforts while stranded for days on the island, one of the hardest - hit by Irma.

Perhaps he wants to win favor with the Castro regime so that the Catholic Church in Cuba can avoid the persecution experienced by Protestant evangelical churches on that island?

We're going to keep doing that for the individuals on the island — there's about 70,000 or so of them — and they depend completely on those hotels and the tourism that takes place.

The Chronicle Seert mentions that one Abdisho built a monastery on the island of Baharin, perhaps about AD 390.

Danish archeologists working on the island of Bahrain in «the (Persian) Gulf» have now discovered there was lively trade across the Indian Ocean, using the Monsoons, from Yemen and Oman to the Indus cultures.

It was founded in 1839 by Queen Adelaide, the widow of King William IV and was the first Anglican place of worship on the island.

«The church on Anglesey has really come together as the Anglesey Synod to grasp the new ways of working in our Diocese and to discover what ministry and mission as nine Ministry Areas on the island really entails.

In Revelation 1:10, the apostle John, while in exile on the island of Patmos, held his own little church service on the Lord's Day, and it was on that day which he received his Revelation about the end times.

And some people may think Galveston is a dump — as only its true hometown citizens can say that truly — but it is one's own dump, and you can not speak otherwise if you're not what is called BOI, i.e., Born on the Island.

Instead, they argue that the very nature and origin of the universe point to the existence of an intelligent creator, much like writing in the sand would point Robinson Crusoe to the existence of another person on the island.

Darius» famous Passover decree for the Jewish garrison of Yeb on the island of Elephantine came by royal post along the ancient routes of Mesopotamia through the ravines and plains of the land of Israel almost under the shadow of the rocky heights of Judea.

I wondered if Haitians feel the same way sometimes about all of the Westerners arriving on their island to «show them the right way» to do everything from construction to Jesus.

«A Russian legend has it that there were three holy men who lived on an island, engaged in constant prayer and works of compassion.

There are two centers on the island of bun that are run on behalf of a scattered religious community of the same name, and up to 100 guests are received here each week.

Just over a week after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, reports are beginning to reveal its impact on the island's Christian community, including more than 1 million Protestants.

The funeral service will be held at Bahamas Faith Ministries International Diplomat Centre on the island.

The kids on the island were holding signs saying boycott Israel.

Titus was later left on the island of Crete to help organize the Church, although he soon went to Dalmatia, Croatia.

«Who,» he asked, «did these viewers think was filming the Castaways on that island?

Poor thing was running around on some island and crashed his camel into a lake of bath salts or worse to come up with that mess he called Revelation.

I therefore hope to encourage all Christians on the island, to support everyone who lives here, and to lead the Church in its work of caring for people in every community.»

At least 76 people are dead after Anders Behring Breivik massacred campers on an island off the coast of Oslo, Norway.

So far, volunteers have distributed more than 3,000 of the carriers to families on the island of Kos, and today, they'll hand out 2,500 in Athens.

If some little kid grew up on an island completely alone, wouldn't he possibly come to assume that he's the only one of his kind, that nothing exists beyond his view, and that there was never a «before» his first memory?

The Athonites made an exception during WWII, housing Jewish women on the island away from their would be Nazi captors.

These creatures lived on an island and would sing songs so seductive and deadly, that whomever heard it would be so intoxicated by their sound they would crash their ship on the reef near the island and be killed.

Put 100 male couples on an island, come back 70 years, and let's see how fruitful this so called marriage will be.

Otherwise they all grow their own food on the island.

«It was the Dominicans... on the island of Hispañola in 1511,» concludes historian Enrique Dussel, «who began the struggle for justice and liberation in Latin America.»

the most active tribes in the diffusion of Islam were the barbaric tribes which had embraced Islam under a Sufi Shaikh who established a lodge — that is, a dwelling, school, and mosque — on an island near the Senegal coast.