Sentences with phrase «see an island nation»

It was incredible and made me realize how great cruising is as a way to see an island nation as complex as Cuba.

More recently — and for less illicit purposes — the Marshall Islands has passed legislation that will see the island nation launch its own cryptocurrency to phase out its reliance on the US dollar.

Not exact matches

(Typically not mentioned is that by not ratifying CEDAW we also stand with the Holy See and scenic, island nations such as Tonga and Palau.)

A year after Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 24 - hour whirlwind trip to Cuba intended to, as the governor put it, rekindle a «friendship» with the Communist island nation, the state is still waiting to see the returns.

For the record, New Mexico had the weakest increase in jobs in the nation as well as the smallest decline in the unemployment rate, while Rhode Island and Mississippi tied for the worst current unemployment rate and Maine and Connecticut saw the smallest increase in inflation - adjusted state GDP.

«I expect we'll see a lot at this COP that relates to the priorities of small island nations.»

Climate change is also seen as the primary driver of melting ice and rise in sea level that threatens to submerge coastal cities and island nations.

Icelanders» passion to see beyond their island has put technology front and center in the nation's schools.

Recounted Winograd's sole source for the claimed success of the island nation street dog sterilization programs, «Once the packs of males stopped chasing the in - heat females, we saw that the dogs started to hang out in front of their favorite person's home more.»

This large island nation off the southeast coast of Africa is the perfect destination for anyone who wants to get up close and personal with wildlife — most of which you can't see anyplace else (there are more than 50 species of lemurs alone).

Seen from space, the 607 - island nation that is the Federated States of Micronesia are tiny specs of green floating in a million square miles of blue.

With so many things to see and do, making an overseas property investment in the stunning Island Nation of Cape Verde will bring untold joys to you and your family -LSB-...]

Before your first night's sleep on this island nation, you'll easily see why there is so much more to Azores holidays than meets the eye.

Shirreff closes the show with the United Nations as seen from Long Island City, in distorted color — like so many artists with dreams of Manhattan.

Its worn and pitted surface is decorated with the painted flags of a host of then - newly sovereign Caribbean and African nations, and one can just see the openocean beyond it, framed by islands and palms.

2010 The Artist's Museum: L.A. Artists 1980 - 2010, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Inquiring Eyes: Greensboro Collects Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara, Carrara, Italy 11th Triennale für Kleinplastik (Triennial of small scale sculpture), Fellbach, Germany Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY First Nations / Second Nature, curated by Candice Hopkins, Audain Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Kurt, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara, Carrara, Italy Larger than Life, Stranger than Fiction: 11th Fellbach Triennial of Small Scale Sculpture, Fellbach, Germany Photography, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY Earthworks: Robert Smithson, Sam Durant, and Mary Brogger, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Shut Your Eyes in Order to See, Praz Delavallade, Paris, France Repetition island, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Elizabeth Catlett: Call and Response, curated by Isolde Brielmaier, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY The Narcissism of Minor Differences, curated by Christopher Whittey and Gerald Ross, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD To the Arts, Citizens!

This year, countries hosting pavilions for the first time include Kosovo, the Maldives, Kuwait, Bahrain, the Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu — and, perhaps most intriguingly, the Holy See.

As many of volcanologists and volcanophiles waited to see how this eruption that started over a month ago would progress, we all discussed the potential for local effects like volcanically - generated floods in Iceland or the effect of ash on crops and animals on the island nation.

«The U.S. talks about ambitious targets and we would have liked to see a reduction of at least 45 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 --- we think it is possible,» said Amjad Abdulla, the lead negotiator from the island nation Maldives.

Some scientists have noted that we could see a range of significant impacts long before we hit 2 °C — coral reefs could start dying, or tiny island nations like Tuvalu could get swallowed by the rising seas.

«We must attack this problem with a sense of urgency and ambition and quite frankly we are not seeing the level of urgency and ambition from the U.S.,» said Selwin Hart, a delegate from Barbados who was speaking for the Alliance of Small Island States, who face their entire nations sinking beneath rising seas caused by global warming.

-LSB-...] leak of a «secret» Danish negotiating text seems to be fizzling down (see our previous post), this was most likely due in some part to a small island nation now famous here in Copenhagen.

Climate change is also seen as the primary driver of melting ice and rise in sea level that threatens to submerge coastal cities and island nations.

Although researchers may still largely be dealing in uncertainties when it comes to predicting Greenland's exact fate, the data and observations that continue to trickle in suggest a «greener» (see: ice - free) future for the island nation.

I've been in the island nation and seen the excitement that the Cuban nationals have over the changes that have taken place between the United States and Cuba, and when you walk the streets and you talk to the people you will realize how educated a lot of the community is.

In Rhode Island, elected officials and community leaders use both the national Kids Count Data Book, so they can see how RI compares to the other states and the nation as a whole, and the annual Rhode Island Kids Count Factbook, to see how Rhode Island is doing state - wide and throughout its 39 cities and towns.