Sentence examples for alone islands from inspiring English sources

For all but the briefest periods of recorded history (one exception is a 30-year period from 1400-1430, during which time the so-called eunuch admirals, including Zheng He, voyaged as far as East Africa) the Chinese authorities were barely able to control their own coastline, let alone islands hundreds of miles away.

It also calls for hardening the power system by generating electricity in diverse locations, in networks that would ordinarily be integrated into the power grid but that could stand alone as islands in the dark in case of widespread breakdowns.

With such a lofty goal ahead of us, there is no time for researchers to stand alone as islands.

The micro-grids are typically designed for bi-mode of operations: the first mode is the grid connected mode and the other is the stand alone or islanded mode.

In the last five years alone, the island of Ireland has become a key destination for TV production.

But John Inverdale stands alone, his island of obscure sport having long broken away from the mainland.

Kos, alone among the islands most affected by the influx, still lacks a registration and reception centre, with harassed police officers – the only officials permitted to process refugees – working around the clock to try and keep up.

On the Hawaiian islands alone, 60 bird species found nowhere else became extinct, their disappearances coinciding with the appearance of humans, marked in the fossil record by, among other things, the advent of trash heaps.

In 2010 alone, the Pacific islands witnessed five tropical cyclones, two volcanic eruptions and one tsunami.

However, they are of extreme practical use when there is a strong interest in genome regions or promoter CpG islands alone.

He will be left alone on the island.