Sentences with phrase «ones as this island»

The hotel we booked was one of the cheapest ones as this island's hotels are not really low budget anyway.

Not exact matches

Taiwan is one of China's most sensitive issues, as China considers the island as part of its territory.

The Pacific nation of Vanuatu is preparing to permanently evacuate the entire population of one of its islands as thick ash spewing from a volcano kills crops, dirties water supplies and fouls the air.

Maui — one of the most beloved of all the Hawaiian Islands — lives up to its superlatives with exotic beaches (like Kaanapali Beach), palatial resorts (like the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea) and lush terrain (as seen in Iao Valley State Park).

Why go: Maui — one of the most beloved of all the Hawaiian Islands — lives up to its superlatives with exotic beaches (like Kaanapali Beach), palatial resorts (like the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea) and lush terrain (as seen in Iao Valley State Park).

Nigeria's request reiterated its support for Beijing's «One China» policy, which demands that countries break official relations with Taiwan, as Beijing pulls economic levers in Africa and elsewhere to woo nations away from the island it regards as rebel - held territory within Chinese borders.

Known for its long stretches of white sandy beach, Negril is one of the island's hot spots, as is the area's not - so - creatively - named Seven Mile Beach; by day, revelers sip on rum punch and frolic in the warm waters, and my night they drink more rum punch and dance to live reggae bands and steel drum performances.

Penang has been featured in the book «1,000 Places to See Before You Die» and has been ranked by Yahoo! Travel as one of the top 10 islands to explore before you die.

The U.S. has angered Beijing, which claims Taiwan under a policy known as «One China,» and opposes other countries pursuing ties with the self - ruled island.

Of all the «lopsided» questions in the survey, this one is easily the most egregious because it completely ignores certain realities, such as the fact that Canada remains one of the only countries in the world where capped home internet plans are the norm (the others being islands: Australia, New Zealand and Iceland).

Typically, they look for ones who are passionate about a particular group on campus, such as the LGBT community or the Greek community, and encourage them to become Islands evangelists to that group.

Fidel Castro kept a home in one of those neighborhoods, Cubanacán, as do Vice President Díaz - Canel and other members of the island's most - privileged elite.

Because Flying Blue uses some unusual regional classifications, one of which involves putting Hawaii in the same category as the Caribbean islands.

With tropical force winds reaching 230 miles from its center, Hurricane Maria completely engulfed Puerto Rico as it bisected the 100 - mile wide island, picking up steam again one it was clear.

At least one person has died in Guadeloupe due to the storm and two people are reported as missing off the coast of that island.

Seashells have functioned as money for thousands of years in Pacific islands and is considered one of the oldest forms of money that we know about.

Hurricane Maria, which made landfall on Puerto Rico on September 21 as a Category 4 storm, will go down as one of the most devastating events in the island's history.

Since its inception in 2011, The Sato Project has largely focused its efforts on a place unfortunately known as «Dead Dog Beach» in the municipality of Yabucoa, one of the island's poorest.

President Donald Trump on Sunday strenuously defended US efforts to bring relief to storm - battered Puerto Rico, even as one island official said Trump was trying to gloss over «things that are not going well,» two weeks after devastating Hurricane Maria left much of the island without electricity, fresh water or sufficient food.

Irma made landfall Sept. 6 on the island of Barbuda as a Category 5 storm packing winds of up to 185 mph, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record and ultimately forcing the evacuation of the entire population of the island.

«This exhibit was one we intentionally made very broad, because it covered the 230 - year history of music and politics in the US,» says the exhibition's guest curator Daniel Cavicchi, who also serves as an associate professor of American Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design.

That's one of the things I was pointing out to someone who read a book on necromancy (long island medium) and was totally sold on everything the author wrote and was now at «peace» from reading about the endless cycles of death — i.e. soul coming back as such... dying then coming back again as another.

There are no more islands, protected backyards where one could do as he or she pleased; what one does affects all others.

As but one striking example of imperial basing policy: For the past sixty - one years, the U.S. military has garrisoned the small Japanese island of Okinawa with 37 bases.

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.

One of the most startling facts about America is the contrast between our great prosperity as a nation and these islands of misery in our cities, Why, with all our resources, initiative and ingenuity, do we do so little to solve these problems?

We need more imagination to get out of our island mentality and to see the whole as one.

It is an axiom of organismic cosmology that no one is an island; even in our estrangement from others and from the cosmos (as imagined perhaps along the lines of dualism and cosmic pessimism) we are still being influenced inevitably by the totality of which we are a part.

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.

Maui has been recognized as one of the most desirable romantic destinations in the world, and the island's most coveted neighborhood has welcomed its newest resort — the reimagined Wailea Beach Resort — Marriott, Maui.

No wonder East Coast veggie guru «Produce Pete» Napolitano chooses it as the one food he'd want if stranded on a desert island.

As one of the most industrialized islands in its region, Trinidad is accustomed to modern conveniences.

«Judging from observations made during my brief visit to this portion of the island, east of Dunga, the chillie cultivation struck me as being of a very scattered nature, generally small isolated patches from half to one or two acres in extent, and combined with tobacco, tomato, pumpkins, etc..

As one of the only meat processors on the island of Barbados, Hipac Ltd. makes sure it has its consumers covered.

Mesa1 may soon be known as the most exclusive restaurant in the world, and is privately situated on an island in the middle of a spring - fed lake and accommodates only one seating daily.

There are a lot of waterfalls and if you are into waterfalls the island of Hawaii and a major portion of the coffee farms have at least one, often used as a natural rinsing agent for beans.

Located on the island of Sumatra, Kerinci is an important center for global cinnamon production as well as the home of Indonesia's highest volcano and one of the few remaining pockets of habitat for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger.

As well as being one of the most influential figures in Australian wine from the 1960s to his death in 2006, the irrepressible impresario, winery founder, show judge and writer was also a sculptor, and his chunky, Easter Island - like figures loomed out of the landscape of his Hunter propertAs well as being one of the most influential figures in Australian wine from the 1960s to his death in 2006, the irrepressible impresario, winery founder, show judge and writer was also a sculptor, and his chunky, Easter Island - like figures loomed out of the landscape of his Hunter propertas being one of the most influential figures in Australian wine from the 1960s to his death in 2006, the irrepressible impresario, winery founder, show judge and writer was also a sculptor, and his chunky, Easter Island - like figures loomed out of the landscape of his Hunter property.

«Goose Island is one of the best in the business and is as passionate as we are about White Sox baseball and the fan experience.

CHICAGO --- Goose Island Beer Company has reached a new, multiyear partnership agreement with the Chicago White Sox, naming one of the largest craft breweries in the Midwest as the new official craft beer partner of the White Sox.

It's done so with its leatherwood honey, a distinctive, Tasmania - only food that relies on the island's cool temperate rainforests as forage for its bees and, in those forests, it relies on only one species.

Next door is Bateau, which is a steakhouse as only Erickson could imagine it: one that brings in whole animals from Whidbey Island, butchers and dry - ages them in - house, and sells each steak by its weight, accessorized with your choice of bone - marrow or preserved - lemon butter.

Solomon is Rihanna's personal chef — yes, that Rihanna: RiRi, island queen, Puma designer, and multiplatinum - selling artist whose most recent album, Anti, had her hailed as one of three black women who radicalized pop in 2016.

Personally, he remembers going to Dreesen's, on Long Island, as a kid, to get one of their fresh, sugar - coated cake doughnuts.

Seven Stars Resort features a magnificent pool that serves as its centerpiece, luxuriously appointed junior, one -, two -, three -, and four - bedroom suites, island inspired gourmet dining, a tranquil spa, a resort - owned catamaran offering daily excursions and complimentary water sports such as kayaking, surfing, snorkeling in the calm waters and along the acclaimed Grace Bay Beach.

With a prime location in Hunter's Point, Alobar adds to the growing attraction of Long Island City, now recognized as one of the New York metro area's most desirable neighborhoods.

Their story begins back in 1900 on a small isolated Pacific island known as Ocean Island with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discoisland known as Ocean Island with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discoIsland with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discovered.

As owner of one of the prettiest wooden Thistles in the Hawaiian Islands I am hard pressed to win against the fiber glass boats.

He found one, now known as Island Trader, that had sailed on the Great Lakes with John Foster Dulles in the crew.

One of them is Packard, a Long Island native who played at Cornell, got a job in the Financial District, and came to S.I. as an assistant in 2002.