Sentence examples for islands coming from inspiring English sources

"With its native forest habitat in the Comoros islands coming under growing pressure from a rapidly expanding human population, the Livingstone's fruit bat faces a real risk of extinction, adding further importance to our conservation programme for them at Durrell".

The hurricane approached the islands, coming close enough to require a high surf advisory.

This is surprising given the large number of ships carrying mice that would have visited the islands (coming from many different places and therefore carrying mice of many different mtDNA lineages).

Pearls hang down in necklaces, islands come round in archipelagoes.

The atoll's population has grown as people from even smaller islands come to participate and get rich.

After the islands came under Japanese control in 1919, they became a point of conflict until the United States and Japan reached agreement (1921) concerning the use of the cable facilities.

Results of the count, which was carried out by the team of nine National Trust wardens across eight of the islands, came as a shock.

During the cold war the islands came to the attention of the United States, which was looking for new sites for military bases.

"Lots of Greek girls, from Athens and other islands, come here to be together," says Evans. "They can be themselves, and blend into the crowd".

In spite of these quibbles, for anyone who wishes to know how the Cape and Islands came to be, Schneider's book is the best place to start.

The sparring over the islands came as South Korea criticized Japan for sending a top government official to ceremonies highlighting Japan's claim to another set of islands, which are claimed by South Korea.