Sentences with phrase «whose inhabitants»

Maybe some barnacle - encrusted bivalves (aka shells) whose inhabitants (trusts) have long since vanished without a trace due to the passage of time, trustee error, unreliable professional advice and the non-application of a rule yielding a bountiful catch of taxing consequences.

But good as the shows we get here are, there are comedy acts as good that never really make it out of Britain, in part because of the BBC's decision to restrict much of their programming to the island whose inhabitants pay the fees and taxes that support the broadcaster.

The worst hit would be the underdeveloped nations, whose inhabitants would continue to be deprived the access to a reliable source of low - cost energy in order to pull themselves out of the abject poverty in which they now find themselves.

This benefit has been enormous, especially for the industrially developed world, whose inhabitants were able to lift themselves out of the poverty, cruel weather dependence, low quality of life and short life expectancy of the 18thC and earlier.

Poor countries, whose inhabitants hardly contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions, are struggling to recover from «natural» disasters, like Pakistan from the 2010 floods or the Philippines and Vietnam from tropical storm Haiyan last year.

We perceive a highly active utopian society, whose inhabitants relentlessly relate to one another and to their environment, while at the same time we have a sense of claustrophobic enclave and wonder how tightly knit an ideal society should be.

While invoking the ideal of democratic openness on which American museums and American society in general are supposedly founded, it reminds you of where in particular you are: in Southampton, whose inhabitants include some who are wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of most people, a place where not all will feel that they truly belong.

For fifty years, the romantic, awe - inspiring paintings of the Hudson River School captured the imagination of the American East Coast, whose inhabitants had little if any first hand experience or photographs of the wilderness scenery of America.

It is one of the few villages left in Bali whose inhabitants are truly native Balinese, as opposed to the Javanese immigrants that make up most of Bali's population.

After lunch, we visit an authentic village whose inhabitants still practice their traditional lifestyle.

Description The island of Bali has long been characterized in the world as the last «paradise» on earth, a traditional society insulated from the modern world and its vicissitudes, whose inhabitants have exceptional artistic talents and consecrate a considerable amount of time and wealth to sumptuous ceremonies for their own pleasure and that of their gods.

About the Book Clone City narrates the story of a city called Joypolis whose inhabitants believe it is the last civilized outpost of humankind.

The narrative sections of this book document a journey to a remarkable place: an isolated Middle Eastern village whose inhabitants «speak» sign language — a language unlike any other in the world, witnessed by few outsiders and never before described.

It is a desolate, forgotten place, whose inhabitants thrive amidst seemingly impossible circumstances.

As subsequent events are narrated from the points of view of various different characters, the picture emerges of a village whose inhabitants are not all satisfied with their lot in life, a village of simmering tensions waiting to boil over.

It is this array of characters that really give the film its soul, turning it into less of a chase thriller and more of mood - piece that revolves around a (not so sweet) country, whose inhabitants and climate can spell death in an instant.

Both «The Rider» and «The Florida Project» draw us into worlds that few of us have known, and whose inhabitants have known little else.

They'd make sure audiences would see parallels to present - day extremists in Ronan's vow to stay true to his Kree people's ancient ways and his determination to exterminate the modern culture spawned on planet Xander (whose inhabitants look just like Earthlings).

Synopsis: In 1933 a young woman, named Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had ne... [MORE]

Synopsis: In 1933 a young woman, named Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished.

Plus that, I live in a area (Washington DC) whose inhabitants tend to dress more formally.

The 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, half of whose inhabitants are native Russian speakers, persuaded Moscow that America would ignore perceived Russian interests.

Cosmos, Life, and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village by Juliet du Boulay Denise Harvey, 462 pages, $ 45 In 1974 Juliet du Boulay pub - lished Portrait of a Greek Mountain Village, an ethnographic study of the Greek mountain vil - lage, Ambeli, whose inhabitants» manner of subsistent living was....

«He named those allies: Iran (Persia), South Africa or Ethiopia, North Africa or Libya, Eastern Europe (called Gomer here in Ezekiel 38)» [Robertson's South Yemen] «and the Cossacks of Southern Russia called Togarmah» (Robertson's Armenia — whose inhabitants would not be Cossacks].

Reminds me of Jose Saramago's «Blindness» a wonderfully crafted satirical novel on the capital city of an unamed country whose inhabitants suffer from a sudden plague of blindness.

In some ways Fowden takes «world» to mean any area whose inhabitants can plausibly claim that it is the world.

The novel's real power lay in its evocation of a conquered America, whose inhabitants cringed before their Japanese overlords, redeemed only in flashes.

In Greece, for example, he visits an isolated monastery whose inhabitants spun a rediscovered 14th - century deed for a nearby lake into a multi-billion-dollar commercial real estate empire, at the expense of a befuddled Greek government.

Not exact matches

(1) At this critical point in the history of this planet, the greatest need is for people whose primary commitment is to the true well being of the planet including, of course, and primarily focusing on, its living inhabitants.

Without any battle, he made him enter his town Babylon, sparing Babylon and calamity... Happily [the inhabitants] greeted him as a master through whose help they had come (again) to life from death (and) had all been spared damage and disaster, and they worshiped his (very) name.8

On whose authority was this new border for Mahra formalised and why were the inhabitants not consulted?

The wealthy 79 - year - old twins have been embroiled in simmering tensions with elected representatives on the island, whose 600 inhabitants held their first democratic elections in 2008 following 400 years of feudalism.

Knightsbridge is, like Kensington and Hampstead, one of those London boroughs whose decent restaurants are in inverse proportion to the cash of its inhabitants

But the strangest inhabitant of all is a robot named Wally, whose every move is controlled by a human sea spy viewing the entire scene from a lab 8,000 kilometers away in Bremen, Germany.

The inhabitants of the region were peasant agriculturists, a mixture of nilotic tribes, whose diet consisted of grain, usually millets, cassava flour, lentils, peanuts, green vegetables such as spinach and cabbage, and bananas, supplemented with small amounts of milk, meat and fish.

Jury Statement: A film whose stranded, unremarkable inhabitants convey the weight of the world through song and dance and reveal the anguish we all feel about life.

Perhaps the film's most effective segment peeks «Rear Window «- style into the windows of a flat that overlooks the road, with inhabitants including a garrulous, hugely likable old man living with his daughter, and a bedroom DJ whose mum and sister pay little attention to his wheels of steel.

The brightly - painted walls of the Magic Castle residential complex clash with the dirty lives of its inhabitants, whose state of destitution is the film's underlying constant.

The World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic was presented to Metro Manila, co-written and directed by Sean Ellis — Seeking a better life, Oscar and his family move from the poverty - stricken rice fields to the big city of Manila, where they fall victim to various inhabitants whose manipulative ways are a daily part of city survival.

The official synopsis: Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world — whose sole inhabitant is the «synthetic» David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.

«Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world — whose sole inhabitant is the «synthetic» David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.»

We open, mid-23rd century, on the predominantly red planet Nibiru, whose primitive inhabitants are seen chasing after Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Mr. Spock (Zachary Quinto) of the USS Enterprise.

The story follows on from 2012's Oscar - nominated PROMETHEUS as the crew of the colony ship Covenant discover what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world, whose sole inhabitant is the synthetic David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.

The girl also happens to be the Lady of the title, a narf (or sea nymph) named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) who's been assigned by the inhabitants of her Blue World to track down and inspire a writer (Shyamalan) whose book - in - progress will influence the rise of an important world leader.

One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth - century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits.

Soon they discover what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world — whose sole inhabitant is the «synthetic» David (Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.

As we follow her spirited heroine on a perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough - and - tumble world of San Francisco and northern California, we enter a world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever.

But when orphaned, 16 - year - old Glory — whose power to kill with a glance makes her one of the Deviants who are feared and hated by the Dome's inhabitants — is forced to run for her life to protect her crippled brother, she discovers that the world, and the Dome, are nothing like she has been taught -LSB-...]

This museum provides poignant insights into the Yámana community, Tierra del Fuego's indigenous inhabitants for six thousand years, whose existence ceased 30 years after the arrival of foreigners to their native land.

Perched on a narrow peninsula of white stone and with just 13,000 inhabitants, Rovinj is a small but perfectly formed coastal town whose history has been influenced by the Romans, Byzantines, the Franks and Venetians.