Sentence examples for islands status from inspiring English sources
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.
Perhaps they really do think the right wing in Japan is behind the change in the islands' status, and needs to be confronted.
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.
These days, many people think of the Channel Islands as the location for '80s BBC series Bergerac, or a place for wealthy people to put their money (the islands' status allows them to control their own tax rates).
There was a time when Brooklyn embraced its Island status.
"We have also asked for island status," said David Mezias, 47, a cottage owner since 1992.
Formerly reached only by sea or plane, Kolyma still has island status; to its inhabitants the rest of the country is "the mainland".
Scientists have learned how to grow this artificially, and the government hopes thereby to strengthen Okinotorishima's claim to island status.
The state's strict clean-fuel requirements also figure into California's unique energy profile, as does its "island" status, which isolates it from many sources of gasoline; there is, for example, no pipeline to the refinery-intensive Texas Gulf Coast.
But these cultural traits are deeply embedded - arising, in Britain's case, from the protection afforded by its island status which allowed for a weaker state and more individual freedom - and they will not be changed by banning company takeovers.
The unwillingness of the UK authorities to make full use of our island status to control tree diseases stems from an unfounded fear of irritating the EU, where such unilateral action could be seen as interfering with free trade, an attitude that has clear political overtones.
