Sentence examples for islands setting from inspiring English sources

Between 1992 and 1994, Woodruff's team visited a dozen islands, setting a 150-yard line of traps on each one.

After the island attack last year, the South Korean military beefed up its arsenal on the islands, setting up a separate defense command, installing additional radars, and deploying attack helicopters and precision-guided rockets designed to take out North Korea's coastal artillery.

Vietnam accuses the Chinese vessel of firing on the fishing boat near the Paracel islands, setting it alight.

The downsides of this quartet of islands, set in turquoise water, are basic accommodation and high living costs.

Boat trips to the Maddelena islands set sail from the little jetty, or you can rent a rubber dinghy and explore under your own steam.

The plan, therefore, calls for demolishing underused sections of the city and weaving the nature on the periphery into the center: to create "urban islands set in a landscaped zone," as Sonja Beeck, a Bauhaus planner, told me.

On my last visit to the Azores – those black volcanic islands set adrift in the middle of the Atlantic – the underwater photographer Andrew Sutton and I watched a pod of sperm whales at play.

Although it will end up as the smallest of the new passenger buildings, Terminal 1 affords a preview of the future at Kennedy, with four ticketing islands set into a spacious departures hall.

The multi-sport Games, with 24 islands set to compete, runs from Saturday, 27 June to Friday, 3 July in Jersey.

Visitors and expats flock to the pebble beaches and rolling hills of the Istrian peninsula, the maquis-scented islands set in a bottle-green sea, the cities of Split and Dubrovnik and the posh party island of Hvar.

If stuck on Blue Plan, a series of five artificial islands set to be built off Copenhagen's harbor, you may have too many options to choose from and never leave.