Sentences with phrase «see the island by»

You can however also see the island by renting a car and by amazing yourself at the little roads that you manged to conquer (you might think that conquering is a little bit of an exaggeration, but really, it's not).

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«I'd love to be tucked up by 9 o'clock but I have to show my face, see clients, and experience what's new on the island,» she said.

Penang has been featured in the book «1,000 Places to See Before You Die» and has been ranked by Yahoo! Travel as one of the top 10 islands to explore before you die.

Turkey strongly opposes the gas search because it sees it as a «unilateral» action by the ethnically split island's Greek Cypriots that ignores the rights of breakaway Turkish Cypriots to the island's mineral wealth.

The proposal was met by opposition from citizens and politicians who, for environmental and noise reasons, don't want to see Porter expand its footprint at the city's Billy Bishop island airport.

(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.)

And it sure does; from families stocking up on their fresh produce, young adults grabbing a smoothie or coffee early in the morning, and restaurants stopping by to see what's in season to put on their menus, Morning Glory Farm caters to everyone on the island.

Imagine my surprise on Sunday when I stopped by her house and saw it already on her island!

The Dutch, by way of Indonesia, brought spices to the area, and the contribution of the surrounding Spanish islands is easily seen in the creole sauces I saw on menus, and in the present day, the cuisine is still evolving.

Which started with a whirlwind trip to Puno to see the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca (and the floating islands), followed by the most memorable bus ride of our honeymoon.

Documents seen by the AFR indicate that the King Island Aggregation has been a stand - out performer for the fund, delivering more than 12 per cent returns a year for the seven years it has been owned, with about half of that delivered through income returns.

By now famous for his classic cocktails and barrel - aged negronis at Clyde Common in the Ace Hotel around the corner, Jeffrey Morgenthaler pays homage to the»80s with drinks you probably haven't seen on a self - respecting cocktail menu in decades: Long Island iced teas, amaretto sours, daiquiris — even a blended grasshopper complete with Fernet - Branca and vanilla ice cream.

And I've seen it in other articles too, recently, e.g., about a death by «hazing» during training in the USMC where «So far, at least two leaders at Parris Island have been fired in connection with an investigation into Siddiqi's death».

Maria's track could see it pass through many of the Caribbean islands already coping with the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma.

Senate Democrats say this is something they've seen before, most recently with the retirement of the late Sen. Owen Johnson who was replaced on the ballot by Phil Boyle in the Long Island district.

With many Democrats already unhappy over the vote by McMahon (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn) against health - care reform, Democratic county committee member John Lavelle Jr. said it was «disturbing» to see the lawmaker's campaign staffer on Ms. Malliotakis» page, especially given the fact that Ms. Hyer - Spencer represents a swing district crucial to McMahon's re-election chances this fall.

For this Mayoral Mashup we spoke with Council Member Jimmy Oddo at a mayoral candidate forum hosted by the College of Staten Island, and organized by the Staten Island Democratic Committee, asking one simple question: What do you see as the most important issue that our next mayor will face upon taking office?

The Long Island Congressman was asked by the AP on Wednesday if he had presidential aspirations and he responded by saying, «let's see what happens.»

If Jonathan was advised by Mohammed to hop on a chopper en route to Lagos, what stops the Daura herdsman from clambering into a train from Abuja to Ikeja thence to Lagos Island; that would, at least, afford him the opportunity to see cows» grazing routes, and also save Lagosians the nuisance, which his visit turned out to be.

«The world saw an African - American man in Staten Island die,» Cuomo said, specifically referring to Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who died after being placed in a chokehold while he was arrested by a white police officer.

Dougherty said at a town board work session last week that the joke he made before delivering his April 23 address — which was hosted by the Shelter Island League of Women Voters at the Ram's Head Inn — was seen as «disparaging to women.»

Dougherty said at a town board work session last week that the joke he made before delivering his April 23 speech, which was hosted by the Shelter Island League of Women Voters, was seen as «disparaging to women.»

In the letter, the lawmakers express frustration with what they see as a lack of progress from Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan's office in pursuing the case, which has been ruled a homicide by the New York City medical examiner's office.

If the governor calls a special session on April 19 to fill former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Lower Manhattan seat, the Staten Island Advance would like to see a similar contest held for the vacant South Shore seat most recently held by Joe Borelli, who was sworn into his new position in the NYC Council last week.

Catsimatidis recalled how he had operated Grand Union supermarkets on the Virgin Islands for 10 years, and saw all the stores wiped out by a hurricance in 1996.

Sens. Tom Duane (Manhattan), Ruben Diaz Sr. (Bronx) and Diane Savino (Staten Island) also all saw their districts grow by just over 20,000 people.

Downstate, the Long Island and Mid-Hudson regions saw their year - over-year collections grow by 3.3 and 3.2 percent, respectively.

Long Island Democrats are increasingly optimistic — thanks to a federal judge, Republican rivalries, and what they see as a lagging Trump campaign — that they'll be able to hold on to the North Shore's Third Congressional District seat being vacated by longtime US Rep. Steve Israel, the outgoing chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

On - topic questions included the timing of the effectiveness of the laws signed today and when ICE will close it's office on Rikers Island, how many people currently on Rikers Island will be covered by these laws, details of Carlos Rodriguez (who was held on Rikers Island for eight months on an ICE detainer) path to this country and his thoughts during his eight month detention, what Mayor de Blasio would like to see the federal government do about immigration and what he will do absent such action, what he would tell Republicans who think his approach is a dangerous precedent, de Blasio and Melissa Mark - Viverito's positions on municipal IDs and voting rights for non-citizens, the number of people arrested on misdemeanors and then subject to ICE detainers and whether persons arrested on felony charges must first go through the justice system before being subject to an ICE detainer.

In terms of the results, the European elections saw particularly striking gains, with Sinn Féin winning an MEP seat in each one of the island's four electoral areas — topping the poll by some considerable margin in two of them: with Martina Anderson in the north (25 per cent) and Lynn Boylan in Dublin.

State Sen. (now County Executive) George Latimer summed up the sentiment of most Sound Shore, and Westchester, residents by stating: «Whatever the benefit to Long Island, Westchester residents see a real downside in the creation of this tunnel.

«As hunger deepens, we could see more Venezuelans fleeing by land or sea to an island,» Muchacho said.

According to the New York State Department of Health, Long Island has seen its uninsured rate drop by three percent since 2013 and more than 300,000 New Yorkers have received their health insurance through the state exchange.

The Independence Party, which thousands of New Yorkers have joined by accident thinking they were enrolling as «independent» voters, is widely seen as a «transactional» party with its endorsement up for sale, especially to the Senate Republican's campaign committee, with which Jacobs regularly battles on Long Island.

«With exciting new development happening throughout our borough, we have seen a new interest in Staten Island by investors as well as tourists,» Oddo wrote in the announcement of the office.

NEW YORK — Viewers watching John Catsimatidis concession speech heard him mention his support on Staten Island - where he won by 11 percent - and likely saw Staten Island Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis standing behind him.

«Staten Island bore a good brunt of the unprecedented rough winter we saw in 2014 and our hard - working men and women responded by repairing potholes at near record numbers,» she said.

Alluvial islands stretch out in the direction of the current, preceded and extended by sandbanks; they are partially covered by mangrove trees, seen in red in this image.

But as we move [d] down the coast and we also start [ed] to go under these islands which were filled with young penguin chicks — penguins are all kind of born in November, they leave the nest in the first week of February or so and when we were seeing them in January, they were still covered by down and this was during that kind of torrential rain period that we saw, and as a result these penguin chicks which were [a] couple months old covered in down are getting soaked by cold rain during the day and then at night time the temperature drops down into the teens and they are freezing and dying.

Marshall and her field assistant, Kate Philpot, placed the male and female lizard models in ten sites on each of the two islands and checked them every 24 hours over five days to see which had been attacked by birds.

Christmas Island's location makes it a model location to study the role of warming on reefs, but it also has a diverse array of reefs — from ones impacted by human fishing to ones that are in pristine condition — that make it ideal to see how different influences play out.

These two figures show the internal waves at Dongsha Island on April 23, 2010, as seen by the radar on TerraSAR - X in its conventional mode of operation (left) and in the experimental new mode that permits direct velocity measurements (right), with the measured surface velocities shown in color.

Engorged by heavy spring rains, the river has overwhelmed both its east and west banks; a large industrial park northwest of Treasure Island is seen awash in muddy water.

But because Jebel Barkal is a lone mountain, isolated from other buttes in the area and sometimes nearly engulfed by the Nile's floodwaters, the priests may also have seen it as the perfect metaphor for the primeval mound: the island where Amun pulled himself out of the waters of the Abyss and created the first gods by masturbating.

Lead author Dr Steve Roberts from BAS says: «When we first examined the sediment cores we were struck by the intense smell of the guano in some layers and we could also clearly see the volcanic ash layers from nearby Deception Island.

(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.

«What we were seeing anecdotally last year was the cackling geese were nesting on islands with deep water around them but when the brant came in late, they couldn't choose those areas and so they were left nesting on islands that were not as well protected by deeper water.

Sulloway discovered that nine months after departing the Galpagos, Darwin made this entry in his ornithological catalogue about his mockingbird collection: «When I see these Islands in sight of each other, & possessed of but a scanty stock of animals, tenanted by these birds, but slightly differing in structure & filling the same place in Nature, I must suspect they are only varieties.»

Then I saw a picture of the Monteregian hills taken by NASA in the winter: these were islands of forest within a matrix of agricultural field and urban areas.

From the Tongan island's beginning, it was tracked by monthly, high - resolution satellite observations, both with optical sensors and radar, which sees through clouds.