Sentences with phrase «over the island as»

Our home is on a tiny island off the West Coast of Florida, and originally the storm's projected path fell right over the island as a very powerful category 4.

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While trafficking routes have changed over time, in recent years narco subs and other vessels leaving southwest Colombia or northwest Ecuador laden with drug cargos often head out in the Pacific, even around the Galapagos Islands, before turning north in an effort to skirt law enforcement closer to home — which may include underwater sensors in Colombian waters — as well as US - led interdiction efforts.

As the Communist Revolution swept over the mainland during the Chinese Civil War, the capitalists fled to Formosa (the island of Taiwan), but neither ceded statehood.

China also has a dispute with Japan over the East China Sea Islands known as the Diaoyu Islands in China and the Senkaku Islands in Japan.

«When you do outdoor events,» says Russell, who went to high school across the river on 98th Street and played sports on Governors Island's athletic fields as a kid, «you are expected, both contractually and on a personal level, to return the park in the same condition, if not better than, it was in when you first took it over.

Unbeknownst to your typical shopper, tourist meccas such as Toronto's Dundas Square and Vancouver's Granville Island could soon be turned into virtual battlefields, fought over by anonymous smartphone - wielding combatants.

Romeo was the first device to be tested on a barge over open water instead of on a reef, as the US was quickly running out of islands upon which it could test nuclear weapons.

Sitting in a window seat soon after takeoff, I watched as we passed over the Coney Island shorefront where I grew up.

The extent of the damage is unknown given that dozens of municipalities remained isolated and without communication after Maria hit the island Wednesday morning as a Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds, the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in over 80 years.

Puerto Rico's most - recent audited financial statements are almost four years old, casting doubt over just how broke the bankrupt island is as creditors fight over its cash and residents protest proposed austerity measures in the streets.

Each time your commercial airs imagine you are casting your net over the Cape, Islands, and South Shore to find buyers who are in the market for your product or service today as well as to influence buyers who will come into the market for your product or service in the next month to a year.

In 2012, Beijing pressured citizens to avoid travel to Japan as their territorial spat over the Japanese - controlled Senkaku or Diaoyu islands flared up.

As the eye moved directly over the island, Dominica's prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, posted a desperate Facebook update: «My roof is gone.

The fixed exchange rate regime has served the Cayman Islands quite well over the years, contributing to the island's success as an international offshore financial center.

Over 3,000 people have been identified as staying in 78 collective centres across the island through IOM, the UN Migration Agency's displacement and needs tracking tool.

As of September 28, just over a week after Maria struck Puerto Rico, clean water, food, and fuel for generators were still hard to come by, most cell phone sites were out of service, and emergency officials struggled to distribute supplies throughout the island of 3.4 million people.

As Stelios now lives between the Principality of Monaco and the island of St Barthelemy (aka St Barts) in the French Caribbean, he has invested over the last decade in a substantial real estate portfolio in these two locations.

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.

i'm retiring and moving to a nice tropical island to watch america rip itself apart, then sit amazed as mexico and canada invade and take over what is left.

After almost ten years of North American maneuvering, the U.N. Committee on Decolonization declared the island a colonial territory (over the protest of the U.S. and most of the island's population — who argued that in 1953, when Puerto Rico became a so - called «commonwealth» as a result of a popular election, it ceased to be a colony and became instead a «free associated state»).

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

Almost two million people call the 13 - mile - long island home, as many as 5 million can commute into the city every day and over 40 million tourists visit every year.

She is not Black American - although slaves were brought over to the leeward islands during the trans - Atlantic Slave Trade - Her parents are Haitian Immigrants - She was brought up to admire Whites and their culture - She does not see herself as a American Black Woman - She claims that she is beyond that... Her husband is White and all of her friends are White - Please look up her bio - Google it!

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).

As if having a tsunami that has killed 272 people and left over 400 missing wasn't bad enough: 25 people have been confirmed dead by a volcanic eruption on another Indonesian island.

And yet I think this is a pretty standard step for floating islands — as I carefully ladled simmering milk over my quenelles, they stayed completely intact!

Located at the tip of Florida's Boca Grande Island, this historic resort - originally built in 1913 as a destination point for wealthy northerners - has played host to a number of famous guests over the decades.

As people came from all over the world to live and work in the islands, they brought a demand for beverages from their native lands.

The islands themselves serve as a barrier for the trade winds, allowing only the gentle breezes to circulate over and between the islands.

During hurricane season it is difficult for people in the «out islands» (those other than the main tourist islands) to fish or to boat over to Nassau to buy provisions such as meats.

Puerto Rico has experienced a dynamic demographic shift over the past decade even as importers and distributors such as TraFon Group feel the pressure to maintain competitive pricing while the island remains in a recession.

Blue Point Brewing has announced that former Goose Island Brewing and Deschutes Brewery executive Mark Hegedus will take over as president, effective immediately.

Derek's wife Tina was diagnosed as Coeliac over thirteen years ago and their website, along with the related social media links, provides information on where Coeliacs can eat out safely anywhere on the Island of Ireland.

The Mumm Napa vineyard team started picking grapes as the sun rose over the horizon at the Green Island Vineyard in southern Napa.

Avery Island is a mysteriously beautiful place where the pepper fields grow, the factory hums, and the McIlhenny family and their employees continue to live and work - as they have for over 5 generations.

It's also a place where there's the potential for small scale regional conflict — political at this time — such as between China, Vietnam and Japan over the Spratley islands in the South China Sea and the known unknowns around political instability in nuclear - armed Pakistan and that nation's relationship to its nuclear - armed neighbour, India.

Just 18 customers can squeeze around the sleek, U-shaped wood bar, where chef Ben Sukle, breaking out on his own after presiding over the sprawling grandeur of The Dorrance, a previous Top 50 Nominee of 2012, turns out food that's as ambitious as it is personal — Wagyu beef from a good friend of his in Vermont, say, or a gussied - up Rhode Island johnnycake.

General Manager and Sommelier Joshua King has been in the service industry for over 15 years in Chicago (Sable Kitchen & Bar, The Purple Pig) as well as the Caribbean and US Virgin Islands.

The new home where he lives with his wife, Shaunie, and five children in the Star Island section of Miami («over on the causeway with all the foo - foo people,» as he calls it, which is close enough to frou - frou to count) is a short drive from AmericanAirlines Arena, affording him easy access to the team's training facility.

Tottenham, at full strength, are second to no team on this island, but unless they make significant squad reinforcements — or recruit Lance Armstrong as their new fitness coach — they are likely to remain second at best over the course of a full season.

Of course, Sankaty Head will never be able to do anything about one of its natural hazards: the fog which rolls in off the sea on some late afternoons just to remind golfers and people all over Nantucket that they are on an island and, as the Indians were saying in the first place, far away — so wonderfully far away.

The tie is far from over as both teams travel to the Canary Islands for the deciding game of a mammoth season, yet Zaragoza will go into the match full of confidence and belief that their two - year stint in the Segunda could be nearing an end.

Bob Speare worked for Mass Audubon for over 23 years as a Master Naturalist, Director of the Wildwood Camp, and Regional Director for the Southeast, Cape and Islands region.

David Cameron, for over a year now the seemingly unflappable head of a small, unduly self - conscious island off the European mainland, has faced his first major crisis as prime minister and come away looking decidedly flappable.

Now the British Brexiters will meet their political opponents in the committee rooms of the European Parliament, as well as over 30 national and regional assemblies across the continent and its islands over the next two years.

Students entered the competition from all over the UK — including the Channel Islands — and submitted sample articles covering topics such as their personal experiences with disabilities, portraits of world - famous and local Paralympic athletes or activities for disabled people in their communities.

At first they claimed they were holding public consultations on the matter but over a year since the first «consultation» was launched, it is clear that the islands» leaders plan to stick to business - as - usual.

Hearings on the federal level over water quality issues have been called for by GOP Rep. Chris Gibson of the Hudson Valley as well as Democratic Rep. Kathleen Rice on Long Island.

The concerns over a Hunt's Point jail facility come as city officials discuss alternatives should Rikers Island be phased out.

He said Sharpton made an analogy about his decision to stick with an ally being much along the lines of President Obama's snub to Rhode Island Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio out of loyalty to his opponent, independent candidate Lincoln Chafee, who (as a Republican) crossed party lines to endorse Obama over GOP Sen. John McCain in 2008.