Sentence examples for half-island from inspiring English sources

Haiti is a poverty-stricken half-island with few resources.

The half-island yields plenty of agricultural produce, even if distribution is haphazard.

Indonesia invaded East Timor after the small half-island descended into civil war following the end of Portuguese colonial rule.

East Timor's independence hero, José Alexandre Gusmão, ended months of speculation today when he announced he would run for president of the tiny half-island territory.

On March 19th the president of the tiny half-island state of Timor-Leste, José Ramos-Horta, conceded defeat in his attempt to win a second term of office.

Although the Dutch eventually kicked out the Portuguese from the Moluccas, they clung to tiny East Timor [14], just to the south, until 1975, when Indonesia overwhelmed the half-island.

The half island nation of 1.1 million people voted overwhelmingly to end 24 years of brutal Indonesia occupation that had left more than 170,000 dead.

The resource-rich and ethnically distinct half island was incorporated into Indonesia in the 1960s in a U.N.-backed vote of selected tribal leaders widely seen as a sham.

The world's newest nation, a small half island in the Indonesian archipelago, is looking at a tough economic situation until oil and gas resources will come on line in a few years, lending hope to the 800,000 people who suffered more than two decades of a brutal Indonesian military occupation, and some 400 years of neglect during Portuguese colonization.

When the sea floods the Half-Islands, as it does regularly, these big green hills poke through the water, almost impossibly, and you wonder what sort of people would choose to live so precariously.

Blass meets some of them, though not all: he is rebuffed by a lighthouse keeper via an intercom, by the cold of Ostend, which makes him flee, and, most delightfully, by Hanni Kaufmann of the Half-Islands.