Sentence examples for islands- from inspiring English sources

In the Faroes, in "European" waters, thousands of pilot whales die each year, driven from the open Atlantic on to the islands' beaches and butchered.

Also working to repair its ties with the United Arab Emirates, Iran is purportedly negotiating a solution to long-running disputes over a group of small islands in the Persian Gulf.

GRAN CANARIA If wrapping up warm for wintry romance isn't your thing, escape for a week in the Canary islands, where winter temperatures are usually around 20C. Gran Canaria, with its rolling sand dunes and lush palm plantations, has a stark beauty and, perhaps more importantly, a smattering of slick spa hotels.

And if hitching has been all but abolished from major routes in Britain, it remains a handy way to get about in the Highlands and islands.

October high: 24C The Greek islands can lose their lustre out of season, but southern Crete falls into the north African climatic zone and basks in sunshine long after other resorts have put up the shutters.

You can also observe the colonies of penguins, albatrosses and elephant seals that occupy the islands.

We like the look of the Island Retreats trip, a low-key journey from Portsmouth to the Scilly Isles, Channel Islands, Brittany and Normandy.

Cameron's proposal is modelled on the Spanish response to the flow of refugees to the Canary Islands from west Africa.

The city can be hectic, so to slow things down and keep a romantic feel, stay on Heybeliada, one of the Princes Islandss that lie just a short ferry ride from the centre of the city.

Afip has made formal requests for information on the networks behind the Swiss accounts to the authorities in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, and Uruguay as well.

Given his views, was it not astonishing that he should have been given the job by a government described in Nicholas Shaxson's bombshell book Treasure Islands as now being "utterly captured by the financial services industry"?