Sentences with phrase «surrounding islands in»

The villa sits high on the hillside with beautiful views of Oyster Pond and the surrounding islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

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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.

In the Russian Far East, Huawei outcompeted Nokia in a 2017 open tender bidding process to lay an internet cable to the Kurile Islands by agreeing to complete the project at a cost that was 9 percent below Rostelecom's stated maximum contract price.122 Though there have been no specific complaints surrounding the Kurile Islands tender, China's investments in Russia at times do not adhere to market principles — an issue of concern for the West given long - standing U.S. and European criticism of unfair Chinese trade and investment practiceIn the Russian Far East, Huawei outcompeted Nokia in a 2017 open tender bidding process to lay an internet cable to the Kurile Islands by agreeing to complete the project at a cost that was 9 percent below Rostelecom's stated maximum contract price.122 Though there have been no specific complaints surrounding the Kurile Islands tender, China's investments in Russia at times do not adhere to market principles — an issue of concern for the West given long - standing U.S. and European criticism of unfair Chinese trade and investment practicein a 2017 open tender bidding process to lay an internet cable to the Kurile Islands by agreeing to complete the project at a cost that was 9 percent below Rostelecom's stated maximum contract price.122 Though there have been no specific complaints surrounding the Kurile Islands tender, China's investments in Russia at times do not adhere to market principles — an issue of concern for the West given long - standing U.S. and European criticism of unfair Chinese trade and investment practicein Russia at times do not adhere to market principles — an issue of concern for the West given long - standing U.S. and European criticism of unfair Chinese trade and investment practices.

And our smallest, her eyes are an island of brown, and here we are all, surrounding her in a thousand ways, engulfing her in love, endlessly, forever, lapping up on her shores and feeling ourselves abundantly, wildly, lucky.

If it's the actual church * building * (which I would guess isn't your intent), it reminds me of once, when I was a child in the Islands... the Anglican church there (the only church), was surrounded by a coral border.

Surrounding the somewhat recalcitrant materials of community and religious culture are the far less easily mastered elements of the natural world, which in «The Island» is represented by the light, the wind and the sea.

We will risk this for the same reason that Zephaniah, Isaiah and Paul were willing to risk a wild and joyous song when they could so easily have sung sadly in the shadows that surrounded their small islands of fragile personal joy.

Keep in mind, if you have an island (four aisles surrounding your booth) or a peninsula (three aisles around your booth) you must fill out the booth approval form in the Exhibitor Console by selecting Exhibitor Forms and filling out the approval request form.

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.

We rented a place in Sanibel Island, a tiny little piece of land surrounded by water off the coast of southwest Florida.

It's colored this beautiful, vibrant blue because of mineral deposits, and it has this island in the middle and you're surrounded by mountains reaching 11,000 to 12,000 feet.

Seating islands surrounding the centrally located dance floor create semi-private retreats for conversation and taking in unobstructed views of the Vegas skyline.

Owner Richard Evanson purchased Turtle Island in 1972 and has worked to preserve the rich biodiversity, provide the Island with a 90 % tree canopy and to protect the cultural integrity of the indigenous Fijian population occupying the surrounding islands.

After hitting that shot into the 17th, Garcia bombed in what NBC's Johnny Miller called the «putt of his career» and had a wonderfully smooth look back at all coliseum - style crowd surrounding that island hole.

Though the fact has only recently been played up, it occurs to any fisherman that there should be fishing of several sorts in the deeps surrounding all the islands.

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

They then talk about the latest delay and corruption allegations surround the World Cup venue in St. Petersburg and ask if the chaos will ever end on Krestovsky Island.

You are doing a good job, and you encourage me because I feel like an island of AP parenting alone in my area, surrounded by gallons of formula, babies scarred from CIO, and people spanking right in front of me.

In antiquity, fierce land hunger in Crete and surrounding islands, triggered the founding of Greek colonies, a cluster of voluntary diasporas, angling for economic survivaIn antiquity, fierce land hunger in Crete and surrounding islands, triggered the founding of Greek colonies, a cluster of voluntary diasporas, angling for economic survivain Crete and surrounding islands, triggered the founding of Greek colonies, a cluster of voluntary diasporas, angling for economic survival.

De Blasio had three nominees pending with the Senate to serve on the state - run authority, which manages transit — buses, subways, trains, bridges and tunnels — in New York City and surrounding areas including, Long Island: David Jones, a leader with the nonprofit Community Service Society who has advocated reduced transit fares for low - income New Yorkers; Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who chairs the chamber's Transportation Committee; and Veronica Vanterpool, director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and a member of the MTA's «reinvention» commission.

A Long Island Power Authority transmission failure farther west on Long Island knocked out villagers as well as residents in surrounding areas.

Mr. Grimm has been a strident critic of the mayor — the two have never appeared at a press conference or other event together since Mr. de Blasio's election, including several events surrounding Hurricane Sandy recovery in Mr. Grimm's Staten Island district at which the congressman was conspicuously absent or not invited.

The setting was the neighborhood's bucolic Long Island Rail Road station, which is hemmed in with flowers and surrounded by Tudor - style apartment houses.

Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, Deputy Director Public Relations Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole said, troops neutralized the insurgents whilst conducting operations to clear remnants of Boko Haram insurgents in the Lake Chad Islands and surrounding villages of northern Borno yesterday.

In a statement, Senator John J. Flanagan of Long Island, the Republican leader, made no mention of politics surrounding Mr. Larkin's retirement, rather concentrating on his long service and gravitas.

On a rainy afternoon at the Rikers Island Jail Complex in New York City this week, five men and one woman wearing tan uniforms sat in front of chess boards surrounded by an audience of correction officers and fellow inmates.

Affluent areas of the north Bronx and eastern Queens have become hot spots as well, reflecting the heavy opioid pill abuse and heroin use in the surrounding suburbs in Westchester County and on Long Island.

Lanza said most schools in Manhattan are already surrounded by stop signs, and that his legislation would mostly affect Staten Island, Queens and parts of Brooklyn.

«We don't need a bridge to nowhere that will foul up Long Island Sound for generations,» Marcellino said during a news conference at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park in Oyster Bay as a bevy of environmental and civic activists and current and former GOP and Democratic elected officials surrounded him.

Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association, said, «Governor Cuomo and Majority Leader Flanagan should be commended for reaching an agreement to add a Third Track to the LIRR that was envisioned a half century ago and will now result in a $ 2 billion investment to the region, economic growth and a better experience for commuters while addressing the legitimate concerns of surrounding communities.»

HIs contributions to our neighborhood have included «securing financing through the State's Secured Hospital Revenue Bond Program so that Flushing Hospital Medical Center and Jamaica Hospital and Medical Center could modernize and expand; providing the Lifeline Center for Child Development with a permanent home; securing the financial support that has enabled the Bayside Historical Society to undertake its restoration of the Fort Totten Officers Club; creating the Colonial Farmhouse Restoration Society to operate the former Adriance Farm Site as the Queens Farm Museum and transferring 52 acres of surrounding land to New York City for permanent use as horticultural - agricultural parklands; and providing land for the Cross Island YMCA to expand, for the Hollis - Bellaire - Queens Village - Bellerose Little League to own their ball fields and for Catholic Charities of the Brooklyn - Queens Diocese to develop senior citizen housing in Bellerose.

He also was in charge of Brooklyn's Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, which under his watch ran massive deficits and ultimately got put up for sale, to the outrage of many in the surrounding community — and from de Blasio, then the city's Public Advocate and a candidate for mayor.

Heastie has been to Buffalo, Binghamton, Syracuse and Utica, the Thousand Islands and surrounding areas as part of a listening tour to familiarize himself with issues that might not be front and center in New York City.

Children from the high poverty neighborhoods surrounding Coney Island's PS 188 faced a number of challenges when the school joined our first CLS cohort in the 2012 - 13 school year — worsened by Hurricane Sandy.

Highbridge Park in Manhattan, St. Mary's Park in the Bronx, Betsy Head Park in Brooklyn, Astoria Park in Queens and Freshkills Park on Staten Island were selected to receive funding based on historical underinvestment, high surrounding population and potential for development, city officials said.

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The issue of bail reform is close to a some state representatives such as Sen. Michael Gianaris of Queens, who told The Alt that in his time representing the area surrounding Rikers Island, he has «a real sense of the problem.»

«Troops neutralised the insurgents whilst conducting operations to clear remnants of Boko Haram insurgents in the Lake Chad Islands and surrounding villages of northern Borno o Tuesday» the Army said.

U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists grew weeds in three sites: an organic farm in western Maryland, a park in a suburb of Baltimore, and in downtown Baltimore, which is choked with smog and about 3 to 4 degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside because of the urban heat island effect.

The Falkland Islands and surrounding South Atlantic Ocean are teeming with fish, birds, and opportunities for scientific collaboration, according to a letter published this month in Science & Diplomacy, a quarterly publication from AAAS.

Islands of wolf populations persist in remote highland areas surrounded by oceans of free - ranging dogs.

This could be because of the urban heat island effect, which causes temperatures in the city to rise as much 10 °C compared with those in the surrounding areas.

About halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa, this complex of small islands and inlets in the central Pacific is surrounded by more than 15,000 acres of coral reefs and encircles three lagoons.

Schlesinger noted that as the ecosystem changed, key nutrients in the soil — such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and various organic elements — accumulated beneath the canopies of the mesquite bushes, forming what he called islands of fertility and starving out the surrounding grasses.

Coastal regions of continents or larger islands will also be in harm's way, particularly towns or cities built on barrier islands and the fertile flat plains that typically surround river deltas.

According to Babad Lombok, records of the island written on palm leaves in Old Javanese, Samalas erupted catastrophically before the end of the 13th century, devastating surrounding villages — including Lombok's capital at the time, Pamatan — with ash and fast - moving sweeps of hot rock and gas called pyroclastic flows.

Increasing levels of ozone, in turn, trap more heat, exacerbating the urban heat island effect: Cities are normally about five to 10 degrees hotter than surrounding suburbs because asphalt and cement absorb sunlight, generating a vicious cycle of escalating pollution and heat.

«The scientific picture of the universe a hundred years ago was that it was static and eternal in which we live in an island universe, our galaxy surrounded by empty space.

The Picayune Strand, the first CERP project under construction, is an area in Southwest Florida that was substantially disordered by a real estate development project, which disrupted the flow into the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge, altered regional groundwater flows in surrounding natural areas, and drained a large expanse of wetland habitat.

Today Lanza lives on an island in a small Massachusetts lake, keeping a veritable museum of fossils and dinosaur bones and surrounded by the nature he cherishes.