Sentence examples for island status from inspiring English sources

There was a time when Brooklyn embraced its Island status.

The CpG island status of each probe is shown on the left.

"We have also asked for island status," said David Mezias, 47, a cottage owner since 1992.

England has a complicated relationship with the past, its island status, its relationship to the land, geography and tradition.

Scientists have learned how to grow this artificially, and the government hopes thereby to strengthen Okinotorishima's claim to island status.

And so the island status that motivated Britain's imperial story in the first place has helped us distance ourselves from all aspects of that story.

The UN's decolonisation committee adopted a resolution last year calling on Britain to negotiate with Argentina on the islands' status, as Buenos Aires has long demanded.

Speaking during a visit to Sweden, Mr Cameron said he had no doubt that the UN would back the islands' status as a self-governing British overseas territory.

Perhaps they really do think the right wing in Japan is behind the change in the islands' status, and needs to be confronted.

The government-paid trips, first reported by Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, have become especially popular in the last year, when the former Governor of the Northern Marianas, Froilan Tenorio, sensed a threat from the Clinton Administration to the islands' status quo.

After World War II the issue of sovereignty over the Falkland Islands shifted to the United Nations when, in 1964, the islands' status was debated by the UN committee on decolonization.