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Sentence Examples The islanders come out at night and mix with the visitors and sailors in the many bars along the shoreline. He shared his knowledge of the islands and told us how innocent the islanders were and how low the crime rate was. Mersea islanders are set to decide whether they will fund the appointment of a police community support officer. The trade winds affect the movements and activities of Torres islanders in various important ways. Not surprisingly, a series of brutal and murderous events left islanders deeply distrustful of outsiders. They have machine guns and repeating rifles, not the bolt-action museum pieces I've seen your islanders lugging about. Most of my interaction with the islanders was made treacherous by currents of wariness. With a large British community living in Cyprus the hospitable islanders are well used to British ways. English was taught as a foreign language and used by many of the islanders when they emigrated to America. Secure in their home, the islanders, known as Kelpers, are getting on with making money. The Melians were colonists of the Lacedaemonians who would not submit to Athens like the other islanders. The islanders then held an all-night vigil on the island as they feared that the fire might rekindle. Its history is long and filled with clashes between governments and determined islanders. She worried about them and what would happen if the islanders caught the pirate crew. They had brought no possessions, and as islanders who had lived off fishing and farming, they had no real professional skills. The two standard languages are Tahitian and French, but many islanders have at least some English. As a result of this, the islanders are banned from fishing in their own waters. Those islanders were forced to work under horrific conditions in the guano mines of Peru. There's a cosy fire, Mrs Moran's husband is tonight's cheery barman and the islanders are friendly. The islanders identify first with their individual islands and secondarily with the country as a whole. Show More Sentences The vehicle was bought second-hand in 1997 by islanders but withdrawn from service three months ago when a door was damaged. Most islanders are self-employed builders, fiddle-makers, boat-makers or jewellers. Many memories were lost or left behind that day, but some are indelibly etched on the minds of the islanders forever. When not drinking kava, the islanders grow coffee, the kind that sends coffee buyers into ecstasies. At the war's end the islands were among the most fortified places in the world, with one German serviceman for every three islanders. The first Cape Verdean islanders settled in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century. On that occasion they did, as the islanders were left defenceless and the Italians marched off their ships almost unopposed. Plantations of brackens and garlic are the main source of vegetable income for islanders. The islanders had the physical sturdiness, the sobriety, the practical skills and the independence of mind to cope with life in remote places. Even now the Kiwis are presumably wondering how, with all the islanders that they do sign, this flyer escaped their net. The thumping bass of The Docks, the islanders say, is tortuous, keeping them up all night. Since then she has not had any contact and fears for the islanders who have been coping without power and clean water. They are nonstandard in the sense that islanders themselves consider them to be generally problematic and economically nonviable family forms. Respondents see people in the region as Cajuns while they see themselves as islanders even though many share the same heritage. At the moment islanders have to rely on a mixture of oil, solid fuel and small hydro schemes which are unreliable and expensive. The supply was restored to the majority of islanders late on on Monday afternoon. Far from being modernity, this sounds more like the cargo cults of the pacific islanders. Taking Jimmy's advice, the islanders stay on board until the ship is eventually stranded on the reef. The reef had been heavily damaged and thoroughly overfished, forcing islanders to venture farther to sea to find good fishing. Instantly classified as a demon, the stranger is harried, persecuted and all but executed by the superstitious islanders. Show More Sentences It's just as hard to penetrate the clannishness of islanders who've lived and played apart from the world for generations. It appears that after Cook was wounded in the back, islanders clubbed him to death. Like many islanders, Caucau's life is governed by a strong faith and a desire to express himself on the rugby field. All countries should accept the results of this referendum and support the Falkland islanders as they continue to develop their home and economy. The democratic will of the Falkland islanders should be respected once a national poll has been held. The statements suggest discomfort at a vote that is seeking to establish the Falkland islanders as a distinct voice. Since the 19th century, Mafia islanders have depended upon copra, or dried coconut, as their primary export to world markets. Canvey was one of the first to log on when it installed eight PCs a year ago, connecting islanders to the rest of the world. Many of these islanders ended up on the eastern seaboard of Canada, either voluntarily or by forced evictions. An English Creole arose on Saint Croix and is still spoken, although its use is generally limited to older islanders. Beyond the ties islanders have to each other, they also have unbreakable ties to the island itself. It was a miracle of survival that the islanders managed to live on it for so long. The captives on the rock were at last rescued by the islanders, who are the most dexterous cragsmen in those parts. It's a magnificent piece of work, created by the islanders in over 30,000 painstaking hours. The islanders have long been accustomed to celebrities holidaying on Arran. There is a history of complaints from a minority of islanders on Sherkin Island. Actually, the Corsicans think that the British, because they are islanders, too, are similar to them. He continued by complimenting the islanders and their committees for their commitment. Total tranquility is probably just a memory to the native islanders who stood their ground. Two years ago, the charismatic young republican seemed to have marched the islanders close to cutting the cord with Copenhagen. Show More Sentences The largest and longest standing community was then Filipinos, followed by other Asians, Americans, other Micronesians and Pacific islanders. MacLeod is part of a majority of islanders who voted against the idea in a referendum. The islanders must be wondering if they have jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. Gameplay all boils down to getting your pirate islanders to make you a ton of golden booty while building a flourishing tropical island that can be used for your pirate base. He recalls how the young woman's aim was to travel further west, to awaken a sense of pride and importance among the islanders, in their culture, language and education. The islanders carved and erected the stone statues, produced many other arts and crafts and developed Rongorongo, the only written language in Oceania. They finally made it to the rocks off the island near the wreck, where they waited until rescue workers and islanders found them. These were the homes of the islanders who made the pampered lives of tourists and international business people possible. He, it transpires, was formerly the friend of the composer's copyist, who in turn discovered the journal describing the South Sea islanders while working for the composer. Follow the islanders to find the most delectable food in the area. The islanders tell a story of an American officer of the occupation named Whitney, who found a stone on the island that contained the power of a god, a loa. The country has a severe trade imbalance that is partly compensated for by foreign aid from New Zealand and by remittances sent by islanders living abroad. But because there is no bridge to the island, they and their equipment had to be ferried across on boats belonging to islanders and others using the river. There was formerly a tribe of South Sea islanders who, until discovered by explorers, had never made the connection between sexual congress and pregnancy. The boat was the main mode of conveyance for Achill islanders for more than a century and was used to transport goods, building materials and turf too and from the island. Some petitioned to be allowed to return, but the government, complaining at the cost of removing the islanders, made sure they signed over their crofting rights. But he has provoked a storm of opposition from islanders, politicians and mountaineers, who dispute his right to put such a national treasure on the market. Not all small communities see the benefits, however, and the taverns of Port McNeill have seen heated arguments between pro-farming townies and anti-farming islanders. However, with the demise of the fishing industry and the acute depopulation of the islands no more will we see islanders manning our ships in war so prodigally as in the past. Despite the mist and rain, love affairs between soldiers and Faroe islanders blossomed, cementing the centuries-old connections between the two fishing nations. Show More Sentences The islanders said they had survived Cyclone Zoe by fleeing to mountain hideouts along paths their ancestors had used for centuries during cyclones. Soon islanders were busy turning out fleecy lap ornaments, whose parents often included Pomeranians and even a Prince Charles spaniel left behind by a departed yacht owner. Improved communication with the islanders has helped turn the corner. There was the occasion when two islanders in their fishing boat encountered a great skua holding down and drowning an eider duck. Shooting is a popular sport, in which islanders have won Commonwealth medals. Some islanders called for separate referendums to be held in the islands on 25 September 2014, one week after the Scottish referendum. In the late 16th century, islanders travelled across the North Atlantic to participate in the Newfoundland fisheries. This interference led to the islanders demanding, and receiving, the revocation of the Company's charter in 1684, and the Company was dissolved. Had the islanders rejected the continuation of their current status, a second referendum on possible alternatives would have been held. President Kirchner had earlier refused an invitation from the Falkland Islands Government to speak with a delegation of islanders. In spite of the conditions, islanders tried to rescue the passengers and crew. During this period, he completed The Master of Ballantrae, composed two ballads based on the legends of the islanders, and wrote The Bottle Imp. In October 1496 the Royal Council ordered that the clan chiefs in the region would be held responsible by the king for crimes of the islanders. The land is highly fertile, and crofting, alongside tourism, and fishing are the main sources of employment for the islanders. The displaced islanders variously went to the Scottish mainland, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada. Arriving at Topo, where he lived and died, he became known as Guilherme da Silveira to the islanders. The islanders elected an Assembly of 40 members, who advised the British High Commissioner. The islanders welcomed most of these reforms, and took up afternoon tea, cricket and other English pastimes. The island has a population of 60, roughly half of whom are descended from native islanders, and new islanders who have come to live there. This peat is highly important to the islanders as a fuel source, and in some areas is even worked commercially. Show More Sentences He noted the generosity and kindness of the islanders to him while he was there, which he believed was disproportionate to their poverty. The authorities in Alderney, having no direct communication with the UK, recommended that all islanders evacuate, and all but a handful did so. The view of the majority of islanders about active resistance to German rule was probably expressed by John Lewis, a medical doctor on Jersey. On arrival in the islands, the Germans issued proclamations imposing new laws on the resident islanders. Food, clothing, pots, pans and household necessities had been stockpiled so as to supply islanders immediately. In December 1945 a list of British honours was announced to recognise a certain number of prominent islanders for services during the occupation. The islanders told him that a small shrine dedicated to Our Lady was nearby. There has never been any proof of islanders wrecking, but given how harsh their lives were it would not be surprising. He was interested in learning the language of the islanders and stayed there for a long time doing his field work. Most islanders were descendants of immigrants from either Ireland or the West Country. The islanders had no immunity to European diseases and many died as a result of contact with the Spanish. It gives islanders the right to emigrate to the United States and to work there. Written works by the native islanders of Puerto Rico were prohibited and repressed by the Spanish colonial government. In 1596, a ship named Duyfken sailed in the first expedition to Bantam, the crew was captured by the islanders on Pulau Enggano. The islanders continued to use the language in ballads, folktales, and everyday life. Every item of intelligence appeared to redouble the astonishment of the islanders, and they gazed at us with inquiring looks. But the practice of villagehood still remains a constant through all of this, creating Miloli'i people as opposed to just islanders. Siphnos kept the treasury abundant with a yearly tithing of revenues and distributed gold and silver from the mines to its islanders. No amount of rugged scenery can make up for such a patronising portrait of islanders as a bunch of couthie, crafty stereotypes. At low tide families of Pacific islanders collect cockles, pipis and greenlipped mussels for beach barbecues. Show More Sentences There is also a huge assembly of fossils for a dwarf pygmy hippopotamus, which might have been a good food for the earlier islanders. He talks about unnecessary loss of life and protecting troops and Falkland islanders but the deaths of people killed in the Falkland Islands were unnecessary. On the night of 31 January, the North Sea flood of 1953 devastated the island taking the lives of 58 islanders, and led to the temporary evacuation of the 13,000 residents. Proceeds from the sale of the series of eight stamps, overprinted 'Hurricane Relief 2001', will assist the 300 islanders to restore their way of life. The Basques can't stand the Catalans, the Balearic islanders can't abide the mainlanders and everyone else hates the lot from Madrid, except Ronaldo who's Portuguese anyway. Alex Bond, 46, was delivering a yacht from Hawaii to Australia when he stopped off at Kanton Island and was met by desperate islanders with little food. Local art is now a viable industry, and hundreds of islanders make a living in it. The thoroughfare of Oneroa village is lined with shops and galleries full of their work. The islanders found fierce pleasure in these acts of cruelty. Under German control, and even before then, Japanese traders and fishermen from time to time visited the Marshall Islands, although contact with the islanders was irregular. This proved a bonanza for the islanders, born to be fishermen and sailors. The islanders followed indigenous religions until 52 AD, when, according to local beliefs, Thomas the Apostle was shipwrecked there on his way to evangelize India. Close relationships developed between the Spaniards and the islanders. Following the first release of the first compact issue, many islanders found the smaller size unsuitable for use on some jobs such as bee keeping. The change was made in a response to surveys carried out by the paper in November 2007 claiming 87 percent of islanders in favour of a compact format. At this spot, Columbus took on board several islanders who had gathered onshore with food, and told them that his crew wished to come ashore to fulfill their vow. Economic necessity drove many islanders to take up employment offered by the Germans, taking the opportunity to sabotage or delay works, and to steal tools and provisions. It therefore fell to evacuees and other islanders living in the United Kingdom prior to the occupation to ensure that the islanders were not forgotten. Many islanders were willing to go along with the necessities of occupation as long as they felt the Germans were behaving in a correct and legal way. Alderney, where only a handful of islanders remained, was occupied on 2 July and a small detachment travelled from Guernsey to Sark, which surrendered on 4 July. The British government concluded its best policy was to make available as many ships as possible so that islanders had the option to leave if they wanted to. Show More Sentences Archaeological evidence from California's Channel Islands confirms that islanders were harvesting kelp forest shellfish and fish beginning as much as 12,000 years ago. It reinforces a sense of being islanders with a proud seafaring past. A local charity, the Wight Squirrel Project, supports red squirrel conservation on the island, and islanders are actively recommended to report any invasive greys. At present, the islanders are about evenly split between those favouring independence and those who prefer to continue as a part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Several commentators, including the BBC's correspondent Caroline Wyatt, had anticipated a fairly large 'No' vote from islanders who wanted a second referendum on independence. This history is still apparent in the surnames of many of the islanders. From 1966 until 1968, the UK confidentially discussed with Argentina the transfer of the Falklands, assuming its judgement would be accepted by the islanders. Examples from Classical Literature Soon after this the increasing population of Pitcairn Island rendered it necessary that the islanders should find a wider home. All this is, perhaps, what you would expect of a race of islanders with our antecedents. These islanders he knew to be of his own race, perhaps crossed with Chippewa blood. As on the occasion of the visit of the Topaz, Thursday was deputed to represent the islanders. But in the mysterious way of rumor, the news spread to hearten the islanders. It is said that the natives of Atowy excel all the other islanders in the art of painting the tapa. The islanders of wari are by far the best sailors, the others very indifferent. The islanders obeyed including Aegina, the deadly foe of Athens. One of the islanders now got in, and in a little while bailed out the water with his hands. The islanders, while employed in erecting this tenement, reminded me of a colony of beavers at work. The islanders looked upon the people who made this cavalier appropriation of their shores with mingled feelings of fear and detestation. One of the islanders might chance to observe the defacement of the tomb. The officers' regimentals, resplendent with gold lace and embroidery as if purposely calculated to dazzle the islanders, looked as if just unpacked from their Parisian cases. You would have thought the islanders were on the point of flying at each other's throats, whereas they were only amicably engaged in disentangling their boats. The visitors were enthusiastically welcomed by islanders and presented with paper flower garlands as they disembarked at Kinmen's Liaoluo harbor under sunny skies. Find more words! 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