Sentence examples for island away from inspiring English sources

I live on 42nd and 12th — almost the full width of the island away.

The English took the island away from the Portuguese in 1815, on the ground that they felt obliged to shut off every avenue of escape to Napoleon.

A few Cubans in the interior of the island, away from Havana, said they were able to pick up the signal, but others said they could not.

But the 80percentt of those are found on the eastern portion of the island, away from New York City, Mr. DiGiovanni said.

Walsh is now a golf pro in Maui, an island away from the Pro Bowl game in Honolulu that Goodell will attend this week.

For these people, the lure of a private island away from prying paparazzi surely was a large part of its appeal.

Jorge Faurie told The Telegraph that Argentina would use the situation to "enhance" its own diplomatic push to pull the islands away from the UK and towards Buenos Aires.

Bacolod natives speak about the Oriental capital, Dumaguete (pronounced doo-mah-GEH-tay), about 100 miles southeast, as if it were almost as far off as Manila, 300 miles and several islands away.

That's why the reptile today is found only on diligently monitored islands away from the New Zealand mainland, protected from mammals like rats, pigs or stoats that within months could reduce every sequoia equivalent and its seedlings to so much sawdust.

Others have accused the president of giving the islands away in return for Saudi aid and investment.

Procellariids overwhelmingly breed on islands away from land predators such as mammals, and for the most part have lost the defensive adaptations needed to deal with them (with the exception of the oil-spitting fulmarine petrels).