Sentences with phrase «people left the island»

But after the war of 1940 - 50 many people left the island so the agricultural business started to flourish again after the 1960s and you can now see many young people working in this sector and be successful.

New York's Puerto Rican population began growing significantly in the 1950s and»60s as people left the island in search of economic opportunity.

Island of the Blue Dolphins is a story about a young woman who, along with her brother, remain on an island while the rest of their people leave their island.

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Many young people leave Tangier — some for college, others for the military, some to find partners, since romance can be difficult on such a small island.

Leaving the negotiations on Saturday, Tony de Brume, foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, told Fortune, «We are going to go back with an agreement that people can be proud of.»

Voters on the island off the Spanish coast voted 96 % -4 % to stay, with 19,322 people backing Remain, and just 823 voting to leave the EU.

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has yet to recover fully from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria, which in late September knocked out power to the entire island and left all 3.4 million residents of the U.S. territory in the dark and killed dozens of people.

From the late 1960s through the early»70s, the denizens of this tiny Pacific island were the wealthiest people on the planet per capita, due to the dense and valuable guano deposits left on the island by fish - eating seabirds over a period of eons.

Hurricane Irma sideswiped Puerto Rico on Sept. 6, leaving more than 1 million people without power but causing no deaths or widespread damage like it did on nearby islands.

Perhaps the worst blow from Maria was the 150 mph winds that knocked down 80 percent of the island's power transmission lines and 85 percent of its cellphone towers, leaving people in the dark and struggling to contact each other.

When the giant storm surged washed over the island, it flooded cars and trucks, leaving many people without any form of transportation.

The island avoided a direct hit from Hurricane Irma earlier this month, but was still lashed with rain and heavy winds that left nearly 900,000 people without power.

3) Hurricane Maria killed 27 people in Dominica — where even the prime minister was left homeless: An island to the east of Puerto Rico, Dominica was also shredded by Maria.

A related ongoing development is that in response to Puerto Rico's economic woes, Puerto Rican people have increasingly chosen to leave the island.

You can leave this country at anytime, just do not change our way of life this country fought for... if this way of thinking continues in the United States of America you will be saluting a different flag... these people who think this way can go live in any other foreign country or go to an island and start your own country, with your own beliefs, sick of the ACLU running this country

The worst Atlantic Ocean hurricane ever recorded, Irma left at least eight people dead and a trail of destruction on Wednesday when it struck the islands of Barbuda, St Martin and St Barts.

Its 155 - mph winds knocked out electricity to the entire island, leaving its 3.4 million people in the dark.

Hi Mark, well I was born in the Falkland Islands or as the people from Argentina prefer to call her the Malvinas I left there with my Mum when I was 7 and came to Old Blighty.

A localized tsunami has killed 23 people and left over 160 missing on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

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.

She bristles when this or that person claims credit for «developing» Julius, whose father left their Roosevelt, Long Island home when her «June,» for Junior, was five.

Eight people have filed a lawsuit against Cuomo, arguing his failure to set a special election date to fill the congressional vacancy left by former Rep. Michael Grimm violates the constitutional rights of residents of Staten Island and of southern Brooklyn.

The chamber is controlled by Republicans, but Democrats in the Senate were buoyed after a paper ballot count left their candidate in a Long Island Senate race with a 41 vote advantage, potentially giving them a 32 - person majority.

Hundreds of thousands of our friends and relatives in Puerto Rico remain without electricity after Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Irma hit the island last September, forcing thousands of people to leave their homes.

Even though the storm only clipped the edge of the island of Haiti, Sandy killed a total of 52 people there, left 200,000 Haitians without homes and ravaged 70 percent of crops in the south of the island.

Also, a settlement at Finima in Bonny Island was attacked by gunmen suspected to be cultist leaving two people dead on its wake.

Many people on those islands have been left with nothing.

Long Island notched small population gains from 2014 to 2015 on the strength of growth in Nassau County, while Suffolk County's population dipped — largely the result of people leaving for other parts of the nation.

Thirty - five people showed up at the Hilton Garden Inn on Staten Island to hear Carl Paladino insist he's not leaving the governor's race.

«People on Staten Island don't ever want to leave Staten Island for any reason ever, for anything, nonetheless to go live somewhere else in their golden years,» Quinn said.

Cuomo says Trump administration officials showed what he called «disrespect» toward the people of Puerto Rico for not helping out more after Hurricane Maria, which left much of the island without electricity.

He added: «We would like to think that before Mr Blair leaves this office that he will be courageous about that, that he will feel the hand of history on his shoulder and will admit to precisely what happened and what was done in the name of the people of this island of Britain.»

Long Island notched small population gains from 2014 to 2015 on the strength of growth in Nassau County, while Suffolk County's population dipped — largely the result of people leaving for other parts of the nation, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday.

According to a person familiar with her reasoning, Bovey is leaving after frustrations in dealing with the Long Island Power Authority.

Another resident of the island community invaded, Etim Eyo decried that they have been left with no source of livelihoods, recounting that: «On Saturday February 27, we experienced the worst onslaught on our people.

But some suburbs like Long Island are also losing young people due to housing costs, including property taxes, while older residents leave because of both those taxes and the estate tax.

We have people from different exotic backgrounds who left their original countries to be part of this scientific adventure on an island.»

The tropical storm has left a trail of devastation across the region, reducing islands to wreckage and leaving at least 14 people dead

(see Graphic) The Tsunamis that struck a small island off the coast of Japan last week — leaving 240 people dead or missing — were intensified by the island's topography, say local hydrologists.

They left a trail of distinctive red pottery but few other clues, and scientists have confronted two different scenarios: The explorers were either farmers who sailed directly from mainland East Asia to the remote islands, or people who mixed with hunter - gatherers they met along the way in Melanesia, including Papua New Guinea.

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Officials say that nearly 13 million people were affected by Typhoon Haiyan, with at least 4 million left homeless, and that some haven't been reached yet on remote islands.

Most of the action takes place in Jamaica, but even when Ida leaves the island for some years the author stays true to the Jamaican experience because, for at least a century, one of Jamaica's primary exports has been its people.

Our problem is we want to decrease the cat population but people are coming from all around the island just to leave their cats here.

A dubious myth you will hear people spreading these days, as workplace cooler talk for example, is about how the dream of leaving behind the north American lifestyle for an easy island life in the Caribbean is now, for most, just a -LSB-...]

A dubious myth you will hear people spreading these days, as workplace cooler talk for example, is about how the dream of leaving behind the north American lifestyle for an easy island life in the Caribbean is now, for most, just a dream — way more expensive than most people realize, and that we should keep dreaming if that's our aspiration.

«Beware of people who coin their own nicknames,» my wife, Sarah, told me as we left the bar in Savusavu, a one - dock town on the northern Fijian island of Vanua Levu.

HONG KONG — About 145,000 people on the Indonesian island of Bali have left their homes around Mount Agung, a volcano that is showing signs it could erupt, officials said on Friday.

We had to leave early and didn't get a chance to try it, but many people say it's one of the best on the island.

There are many reasons people visit San Pedro Belize on Ambergris Caye island, and everyone leaves with a different vision of paradise.