Sentences with phrase «on some of the islands like»

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You can go to a place like Panama or the British Virgin Islands or Delaware or Nevada and usually the places where you're doing it have tough laws where they will not reveal who the beneficial owner is and they just layer on different aspects of anonymity.

Branson could spend all of his time on Necker Island, but he's using his billions and voice (he's got over 2 million followers) to try and solve some of the world's biggest problems, like the HIV / AIDS pandemic and global warming.

Self - publishing is shedding its stigma in the book world thanks to smash hits like On the Island and Fifty Shades of Grey.

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.

By extending Article 50 negotiations, the UK government would, in theory, give itself more time to resolve issues like how to preserve the invisible border on the island of Ireland.

If all that sounds like the opposite of your perfect day, there are plenty of opportunities to escape the crowds — two ships docking simultaneously at CocoCay can deposit as many as 10,000 travelers on the little island.

The majority of sharks don't consume mammals, and instead dine on creatures like fish and shrimp, says Cheryl Wilga, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Rhode Island.

As of today there's still no power on the island except for a handful of generators powering high - priority buildings like select hospitals, and the island likely won't return to full power for another half a year.

Few people will imagine buying Necker Island on a whim in their twenties like the Virgin boss did, but most of us can picture buying a van or investing in property.

In Inferno XXIX, Dante emphasizes this point by comparing counterfeiters, victims of a plague - like ailment in their eternal damnation, to those plague victims on the island of Aegina described by Ovid, who were replaced by «ant - people» — «secondo che i poeti hanno per fermo» (as the poets hold for certain).

And it was there in the warm South Seas — the other side of the world from the city where men like Fly were «pent up in lath and plaster, tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks» — that at age twenty - three he found Nature's own paradise on an island in the Marquesas and in the arms of a woman he fictionalized as «Fayaway» in Typee (1846), the scandalous first novel he wrote upon his return.

On Wednsday I wanted to drop mushrooms and DMT and visit with green aliens who look like the Easter Island Heads On Thursday I wanted to injest all of the above and pray to them On Friday I wanted to expand my mind with astral travel and meditation On Saturday I wanted to sober up a bit and clear my mind with pure meditation On Sunday I wanted to visit with Allah or YHWH or whatever floated my boat.

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.

Many of the central characters of fantasy are country people, like those in Evangeline Walton's Mabinogion tales and other Welsh fantasies, The wizard Ged of Le Gum's Earthsea Trilogy is the son of a bronzesmith on a rustic island and is referred to as «goatherd.»

The people who are working on the Park51 project are doing this and they are still being criticized by leading Republicans who don't like the mayor of NYC and the people who live on Manhattan Island.

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.

And still the Leninist dream lives on: in a hellhole like North Korea; in the island prison, Cuba; in what ought to be one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, Venezuela.

There has never been anything half as lovely written about waterfowl of the family Anatidae as Lancelot's words about seeing «geese on the islands — long smoke lines of them singing like hounds in the cold streak of morning» as he sails to the Grail island.

You should read the writings of Catholic priest Bartolomeu de Las Casas about what the Spanish Catholics did on islands like Cuba, Hispanola and others.

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.

Richard Lignon, in his History of the Barbadoes (1647), described the two varieties of peppers he found on the island: «The one so like a child's corall, as not to be discerned at the distance of two paces, a crimson and scarlett mixt; the fruit about three inches long and shines more than the best pollisht corall.

Considering the dry, stale things on my island sell for $ 15.98 / lb in the bulk section of my local island grocer, I embrace them and savor them like precious contraband.

Black Hispanics from islands like Cuba and Hispañola, believe that red pepper pods on a doorstep are the sign of a malignant influence, and may give a man the «hot foot.»

I am always stunned to find myself seated under a palapa on Playa Norte (North Beach), toes curled in the sand, sipping Añejo rum, with the soul of the island coiled cat - like in my lap.

Taking a bite into one of these bars is like going on vacation to a beautiful remote island.

I am sure there are lovers of things just like this and maybe I could be too if I was on a desert island with nothing else to eat and a bong the size of my leg but really, I could see no other way of enjoying this.

One thing that I miss is hot fudge pudding cake (a kind of «floating island» dessert where you make a thick cake batter, sprinkle over a sugar / cocoa powder mix and cover with hot water, then bake until the cake part rises and «floats» on top of a hot fudge - like pudding sauce.)

And Kathleen Davies of Sydney - based spirits distributor Nip of Courage, has recently founded a group called Women of Australian Distilling (an even more male - dominated field than wine), to highlight the work of people like Genise Hollingworth of Black Gate Distillery in central NSW, Holly Klintworth of Bass & Flinders Distillery on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula and Sarah Lark of Kangaroo Island Spirits in South Australia.

The Zoschke's next took us on a trip to the Danish island of Fyn («Fünen» in German, pronounced «Fe - une,» or something like that. -RCB-

Most of the summer - only pop - ups are concentrated along the boardwalk, but venture a few blocks inland and you'll find some of the best pizza in any of the boroughs (Whit's End), a thriving urban farm (Edgemere Farm), and fried - fish tacos (Rockaway Beach Surf Club) so magically puffy it's like you're, you know, on an island.

To add to the fun, there were cooking gadgets like the natural lava cooking stones offered by Island Grillstone, and a completely new product developed by chemist Marlin Bensinger of Chromtec: Pepper Burn Anodyne, a topical lotion that neutralizes the burning sensation caused by chile peppers on the skin.

Andrew Zimmern is off to the island nation of the Philippines, where he chows down on local favorites like balut, crickets, stuffed frogs and even live worms!

On Hilton Head Island, Curtis finds incredible crispy fried green tomatoes stuffed with goat cheese in the ultimate dockside dining experience, and on the gulf shores of Alabama, he dives into a crab and bacon combo like you've never seen beforOn Hilton Head Island, Curtis finds incredible crispy fried green tomatoes stuffed with goat cheese in the ultimate dockside dining experience, and on the gulf shores of Alabama, he dives into a crab and bacon combo like you've never seen beforon the gulf shores of Alabama, he dives into a crab and bacon combo like you've never seen before.

Maui Nui Venison, a sustainable operation based in Hawaii, harvests wild Axis Deer on the islands of Maui and Moloka'i to keep the invasive species populations under control, and through partners like Nicky USA, provides this truly wild protein to consumers.

The man who has been Rhode Island's star for what feels like the better part of a decade hit clutch shot after clutch shot to put the Rams» win over Oklahoma on ice.

Secretly, we've only included this because we quite like the idea that the tiny island of hair on the top of Steve McClaren's forehead might also be a whale, albeit a tiny one, and that at some point this season it's just going to shudder into life, then slip back into his skull, never to be seen again.)

It ain't hard to tell, I excel then prevail The mic is contacted, I attract clientele My mic check is life or death, breathing a sniper's breath I exhale the yellow smoke of buddha through righteous steps Deep like the Shining, sparkle like a diamond Sneak a Uzi on the island in my army jacket lining Hit the Earth like a comet — invasion!

Unfortunately for the people of Funchal, Madeira, it also stands proud on the island, just like Wednesday's unveiling.

The mere mention of summer brings up ideas of tropical islands vacation, summer camps, summer games on the beach like frisbee, sand castle building or beach balls.

I like to give the analogy that if you are living on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, growing all your own foods and gathering pure rainwater to drink, then you don't need to provide your child with supplements.

He's also big on Queens, which, like Staten Island, has pockets of GOP voters.

GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino was on Staten Island today (one of two NYC boroughs he actually likes) hoping to woo voters by coming down on the right side of a long - standing local issue: The Verrazano - Narrows Bridge.

As Senate Democrats hope to flip control of the state Senate with victories in the downstate suburbs and in the Hudson Valley, Democrats on Long Island this evening say turnout has especially heavy — a sign they believe is especially beneficial for candidates like Jim Gaughran and John Brooks.

Some money is being diverted - like the # 200m spent on the tiny island of St Helena's new airport, after apparent lobbying from Lord Ashcroft - equivalent to the DfID's entire budget for clean water and sanitation.

Attorneys representing former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was also convicted, along with his son Adam, on corruption charges, have — like Silver's lawyers — used the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of former Gov. Bob McDonald to appeal the conviction of the ex-Long Island Republican lawmaker.

«Apparently, the developers of the Mount Manresa project like litigation,» Oddo wrote in an acidic post on Staten Island's official Facebook page.

New York State has a slew of fascinating congressional races, from sure things for one party that will still bring a new face, like the contests to replace Charlie Rangel in CD13 after nearly fifty years or Steve Israel in CD3, to a bunch of races that could unseat young representatives and flip seats, such as Republicans Lee Zeldin on Long Island (CD1) and Elise Stefanik (CD21) or Democrat Sean Maloney (CD18).

The win was a vindication for Simon, who served as Democratic District Leader and State Committeewoman, with years of experience on local issues like Atlantic Yards, Long Island College Hospital (LICH) and the Gowanus Expressway.

Disapproval was especially high among minority voters and on Staten Island — where 58 percent of those polled said they didn't like the job he'd done at the helm of transit authority, which recently spiked bridge tolls.

While there are two Long Island races still being counted that could change things, it appears that Republicans will continue their hold on the state Senate, putting a dent in de Blasio's hopes for voting reform and other priorities, like a lengthy extension of mayoral control of city schools.