Sentences with phrase «than a landing strip»

The city has two airports, one an international airport and the other little more than a landing strip used for non-commercial flights.

The tiny island consists of little more than a landing strip, a navy base and a dive resort.

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«Staff looked at all of the potential uses for the property, and there would have been no functional use of that strip of land, other than that it would have increased the size of the park,» said Commissioner Jeff Cook.

This strategy seems poised to be even more ineffective in the capital than it was in City Hall, where Mr. Barron's challenges to Ms. Quinn led to him being stripped of his chairmanship of the Higher Education Committee, and landed him near the bottom of the list of recipients of discretionary funds.

More than two dozen landing strips were grandfathered into the legislation creating the wilderness, along with numerous private lands belonging to individuals, outfitters, ranchers, and mining companies.

Corridors are only one type of connectivity, which may take forms other than simple linear strips of land, including patches, or stepping stones, of habitat.

New research shows that an area larger than the land area of Maryland — more than 11,500 square miles — was completely stripped of trees, grasses and shrubs to make way for more than 50,000 new oil and gas wells that were developed each year between 2000 and 2012.

«If the agriculture industry is to be subsidised, then paying farmers to protect the environment — rather than just stripping as much use from the land as possible — is something our study has shown to be effective, and something the natural world is in dire need of.»

Initially, Isola Bella was little more than a barren strip of rocky land inhabited by local fisherman but in 1630 the Borromeo family, influential members of Piedmont's aristocracy, began the construction of a grand residence (a «palazzo») and gardens on the island.

Often called the «Caye (Island) You Can Walk To,» Placencia is connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land less than half a mile across but has more than 16 miles of golden sand beaches along the Caribbean.

Central America, nestled between the southern Mexico border and Colombia, is a narrow strip of land, home to 41 million people in more than 325,000 square miles.

The high lasted for all of ten minutes, approximately the time it took me to wander into «town» and realized that I'd landed squarely in a backpacker tourist trap that looked more like a South Florida strip mall than the adventure capital of Australia.

Interested in «reclaiming» American land for large - scale art, Smithson presented more than fifty proposals to various strip - mining companies, but was stymied in these efforts.

A proposal by Trump's Bureau of Land Management stands to let Cloud Peak Energy, one of the largest coal companies in the United States, strip mine more than 2,000 acres at the company's Spring Creek mine.

Unfortunately, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is getting ready to open more than 3,500 acres of land next to the park for a new Utah coal strip mine, just to supply a few more years of dirty energy to power to Los AngeLand Management (BLM) is getting ready to open more than 3,500 acres of land next to the park for a new Utah coal strip mine, just to supply a few more years of dirty energy to power to Los Angeland next to the park for a new Utah coal strip mine, just to supply a few more years of dirty energy to power to Los Angeles.

Coming off a year in which second - home sales reached new heights, practitioners in this beach community on a thin strip of land off the New Jersey coast have been more worried about where they're going to get inventory to sell than what to do in an economic cooling.