Sentences with phrase «own as an island»

In Canada, however, the printer companies are prevented from excluding third parties by the Competition Act, which has enabled refilling businesses such as Island Inkjet to operate and provide some measure of competitive pricing discipline.

First, visualize the goal for the product, which is represented in this exercise as an island.

«The SuperShe network as well as the island experience are slanted toward women who are interested in wellness, mindfulness, health, fitness, nature, beauty, relaxation, and connecting with other women,» Roth told Business Insider.

No entrepreneur can survive as an island.

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.

Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, who is running to replace the departing García as the island's chief executive, is attempting to distance himself from the current commonwealth administration.

It is important to many of my constituents — indeed, to the whole country as an island trading nation.

Beyond closer economic and political ties within the island chains, China also gains influence at the U.N., as the islands account for 14 votes in the General Assembly.

Private companies and governments of other countries have extended their hand to help Puerto Rico, as the island looks to recover from the ruins left behind by Hurricane Maria.

And Elon Musk is running a business, not a charity, so coming up with a way to generate money from reconstructing Puerto Rico's energy system will be crucial for private companies to step in, which will be difficult as the island copes with its financial struggles.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)-- A spiraling Puerto Rico debt crisis reached a new milestone as the island missed nearly $ 370 million on a bond payment Monday and officials warned of worse to come if the U.S. Congress doesn't help it dig out from a mountain...

Or to change the metaphor, what we see as islands separated in an expanse of ocean are all connected under the ocean.

The clown comedy appears as an island of safety and well - being in a world that we know very well is neither safe nor conducive in the end to our well - being.

As an island - based company, Diana Candy also has to focus on controlling its supply chain.

As an island continent situated in the Asia Pacific region, Australia has a unique set of favourable geographical features distinct from all of its competitors.

As an island nation with a history of colonies almost everything is imported.

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

Some people develop a kind of claustrophobia known as island fever.

Croatia, who finished second to Iceland in World Cup qualifying, were drawn into the same group as the island nation for this summer's tournament.

I highly recommend visiting early in the day as the island gets packed.

It serves as an island of largely undisturbed wildlife habitat within the densely developed I - 95 / Route 128 beltway.

President Trump on Tuesday approved an order to reimburse Puerto Rico during the first 180 days as the island struggles to deal with the aftermath and destruction of Hurricane Maria.

The Independence party leader, finance minister Bjarni Benediktsson, whose name also appeared in the leaked documents in connection with a Seychelles - based company of which he once owned a third, was holding talks with Grímsson, who flew back early from the US to sound out all of Iceland's parliamentary party representatives as the island's political crisis deepened on Tuesday.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday signaled he will send more resources and state personnel to Puerto Rico as the island continues to recover from widespread damage caused by Hurricane Maria.

Cuomo has focused New York assistance for Puerto Rico before, including offering financial help as the island's budget and debt crisis deepened.

Puerto Rico's governor announced on Feb. 5 that he will pursue school privatization policies as the island continues to suffer from the devastation of Hurricane Maria.

New York's governor is heading back to Puerto Rico with more help as the island continues to recover from last year's catastrophic hurricane.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo had pledged support for Puerto Rico as the island's government faced financial collapse last year, including helping with debt structuring and lobbying Congress.

And can anyone seriously suggest that Japan, or South Korea, or Brazil would cut us a better deal as an island of 60m people than as a continent of 500 million?

This hodgepodge is particularly apparent in the neighborhoods just west of the Capitol and Empire State Plaza, where residential and commercial uses collide on Lark Street and some business and restaurants operate as islands within residential blocks.

«We have to remind the city that apparently we are an island, and as an island we should take advantage of the water, so we should want to find a way to bring ferry service in any form,» said Borough President James Oddo, who has pushed the city to add a Staten Island NYC Ferry route since the «citywide» service was announced.

Donovan, who will head back to work as the Island D.A., teared up as he thanked his supporters and the dozens of people who volunteered on his campaign.

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

Here, what we still call the lunar mare, or «seas,» are depicted as islands.

But the seclusion is a boon to biologists, as the island hosts a number of species found nowhere else.

In 360 BC, he wrote a book whose characters describe Atlantis as an island bigger than «Libya» and «Asia» together, which existed 9000 years earlier «in front of the Pillars of Hercules» that flank the entrance to the -LSB-...]

The study also showed that volcanic hot spots along the ridge — volcanoes near Iceland as well as the islands of Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, and elsewhere — all sit above warm spots in Earth's mantle.

Like picture frames or camera lenses, the frames will draw visitors» eyes to aspects of the vista, such as an island in the Mississippi that's the site of an early 19th century Native American village, or an oil refinery on the horizon.

India spent tens of millions of years as an island before colliding with Asia.

Such genetic isolation within a species often occurs as a result of geographical hurdles, such as an island getting cut off from the mainland.

The distance from the Luzon Strait to China is relatively short — compared to perhaps the Hawaiian internal wave that crosses the Pacific to Oregon — and the South China Sea is relatively free of obstructions such as islands, crosscurrents and eddies, Legg said.

AS ISLANDS go, you would be hard pressed to find one more remote.

As islands they seem remote, not because they're far away but because they're far above.

In 360 BC, he wrote a book whose characters describe Atlantis as an island bigger than «Libya» and «Asia» together, which existed 9000 years earlier «in front of the Pillars of Hercules» that flank the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.

As the island rose upward out of the sea, volcanoes formed along its spine, with basins of shallow water between them.

As the plates drift across the hot spots, a chain of volcanoes forms — such as the island chains of Hawaii and Samoa.

England's fate as an island was sealed by erosion from glacial floods that carved the English Channel.

Such arithmetic would have been essential as the islands became important trade centers.

Careers: In waters deep and shallow — As an island, Britain has a special interest in what inhabits its coastal, territorial and inland waters

Island dwarfism», the tendency for animals to reduce their size as a means of adapting to a severely constricted environment, such as an island, is thought to explain Hobbit's small size