Sentences with phrase «own island of»

At $ 1,098 per square foot, North Beach compares to the Oia neighborhood of the island of Santorini in Greece ($ 1,017 / sq.ft.).

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.

The sprouting of these islands of legality, observers predict, will spur other states to open up their cannabis markets lest they lose out on revenue and tourism, much as the casino gambling pioneered in Las Vegas became ubiquitous across the continent.

And almost every red state has its islands of blue dots.

I moved to an outer island of Hawaii when everyone else was in Hollywood.

It's easy to spot the Venetian Island of Burano from the sea.

Dutch sailors discovered the bird on the island of Mauritius in the 17th century.

The island of Ta'u is composed of roughly 600 residents and is located about 4,000 miles from the West Coast of the United States.

The pygmy sloth, the smallest of the sloths that only lives on an island of the Caribbean coast of Panama, is critically endangered.

On the Hawaiian island of Kauai, a Tesla solar farm accounts for a fifth of the island's peak energy demand.

The scenic, tranquil island of Bali offers travelers a transcendent experience you won't get anywhere else.

The U.S. Air Force said the B - 52s took off from Andersen Air Force Base on the U.S. Pacific island of Guam and «transited to the vicinity of the South China Sea» on Tuesday.

This Portland, Ore., nightspot is an island of modernity in the city's retro hipster Pearl District.

TOKYO (Reuters)- U.S. Air Force B - 52 bombers have carried out training in the «vicinity» of the South China Sea and the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, the Air Force said on Friday, in what a Chinese newspaper linked to China's drills near Taiwan.

MuleSoft was the brainchild of founder Ross Mason, who began it as a small open - source project in 2003 when he and his wife were living on the island of Malta.

An Uber driver told CNBC that he made «a lot of money» over the summer when driving people on the island of Santorini.

ROWENA CROSBIE: Greetings from the beautiful island of Maui.

New Jersey: Named by one of the state's proprietors, Sir George Carteret, for his home, the Channel island of Jersey, a bastardization of the Latin Caesarea, the Roman name for the island.

China considers the self - ruled island of Taiwan to be its territory.

Though his 2012 purchase of the Hawaiian island of Lanai has been his largest overall investment by far, he's made a number of blockbuster purchases over the last two decades.

ISLAY, Scotland (AP)-- It's said that Scotch tastes of the place where it is made, so Reavey's Bruichladdich Black Art single malt would offer a touch of barley, a splash of the sea, and a whiff of salt from the island of Islay, 140 miles west of Glasgow.

When I spent 14 days surfing on the island of Nias in Indonesia, I was the only American and probably the first blonde kid the locals had ever seen.

People protest in New York City on Dec. 2, 2015 against austerity measures forced onto the severely indebted island of Puerto Rico.

For these and other companies, Alberta continues to offer an island of pre-2008 growth in a world overshadowed by secular stagnation.

Focus After a 2001 visit to the Indonesian island of Sumba, Sean Downs, CEO of Enclarity, starts a foundation devoted to health care and humanitarian aid for the islanders.

The Hong Kong - based exchange, which recently pulled staff from its Japanese office due to that regulatory spat, is planning to open up a new office on the island of Malta.

A Reuters witness described the roof and walls of a well - built house shaking hard as the storm rocked the island of Providenciales and caused a drop in pressure that could be felt in people's chests.

The route from airline Loganair, the only major UK airline owned and headquartered in Scotland, covers 1.7 miles between the two islands of Westray and Papa Westray, near the mainland of Orkney, an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland.

He is now a founder or investor in more than 30 businesses — including an upscale resort in the Island of Fiji and Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Football Club — with a combined annual revenue of $ 5 billion.

The storm passed just to the north of the island of Hispaniola, shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti, damaging roofs and causing flooding and power outages as it approached the Haitian side.

To support himself and his brother, Hamilton started clerking at Beekman and Cruger, an import - export firm on the Caribbean island of St. Croix, according to City Journal.

Production shifted from the island of Oahu to the main Hawaiian island in the 1960s to escape the spread of the disease, which is transmitted by insects.

Last year, Giustra's friend and fellow philanthropist Amed Khan convinced him to visit Greece to see first - hand the plight of Syrians crossing the waters between Turkey and Greece to reach the island of Lesbos.

The storm passed just to the north of the island of Hispaniola, shared by Dominican Republic and Haiti, causing some damage to roofs, flooding and power outages as it approached the impoverished Haitian side, which is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes and rain, although it did not make landfall.

That set off a scramble at Apple to find a new haven for its vast cash hoard, one that ended up at the Channel Island of Jersey, 12 miles off the coast of Normandy, France.

A solar array and storage batteries on the island of Kauai is producing renewable energy for less per kilowatt hour than fossil fuel power stations.

In the past 18 months, Zynga CEO and cofounder Mark Pincus purchased a mansion in San Francisco for $ 16 million; Netscape cofounder Jim Clark purchased a sprawling estate in Southampton for an estimated $ 49 million; Russian tech investor Yuri Milner purchased a chateau - style mansion in Silicon Valley for a record $ 100 million; and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison purchased the entire Hawaiian island of Lanai for an estimated $ 600 million.

Wisdom from the island of Okinawa, which has a shockingly high number of residents who live to see their 100th birthday, helped him deal with a professional crisis and learn to manage his career in a sustainable way.

Varadkar repeated he wants no border on the island of Ireland after Brexit.

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Essentially, the two states are an island of marijuana legalization in the middle of a large swath where marijuana is not legal for any purpose, medical or recreational.

The date - line dispute between Kiribati, the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, and a handful of other island nations was especially heated when each side claimed that it would be the first to celebrate the new millennium.

If the Pirate Party does indeed come to power, it won't have major implications beyond the tiny, rocky island of 330,000, but it will be right on trend.

It's an island of serenity in the most bustling of cities, a place to read, reflect, and silently meditate in a world where such locations are no longer easy to find.

The letter, published by a news site located on the island of Kauai, follows popular fury and a planned protest surrounding a 700 - acre piece of beachfront property that Zuckerberg purchased in 2014.

Petrov is unlikely to face a trial — he fled to Russia when his villa on the Spanish island of Majorca was raided by the police in 2008, and Russia does not extradite its citizens.

Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said the missile landed inside of Japan's special economic zone in the Sea of Japan, about 250 kilometers 155 miles) west of Aomori, which is on the northern part of Japan's main island of Honshu.

The second maximum - strength storm to hit the Caribbean this month, Maria battered the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Croix on Wednesday before heading toward Puerto Rico, where it was set to be the strongest storm to hit the island in about 90 years.

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.

In the same year that Jacob Lewis established the Lewis Pottery on the edge of the Ohio River, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the island of St. Helena, ending the Napoleonic Wars.