Sentence examples for islet from inspiring English sources

The tiny islet is covered in native Atlantic forest and populated by fishermen.

On August 8th 40 woebegone North Africans were found to have increased the population of the Italian islet of Linosa by almost 10%.

Usually, by the time diabetes is diagnosed most islet beta cells have stopped working.

Every species on the island retreated to a small islet offshore, Boatswainbird Island, except for a few individuals that held on to the most inaccessible cliffs, and the phenomenally scrappy wide-awake terns that visit the southern plains to breed.

She flew back straight into Spain's biggest diplomatic crisis since Mr Aznar took office: Morocco's landing of troops only a handful, but troops are troops on a disputed islet near one of Spain's two North African enclaves.

It is a largely man-made islet, much like Dubai's Palm Jumeirah.

Antibodies, perhaps triggered by a virus, mistake the insulin-producing islet cells of the pancreas as invaders and begin destroying these cells.

The fishermen of the islands of San Andrés and Providencia now fear for their livelihoods.In this section With a little help from my friends Stalled Roll out the barrels An islet for a sea Correction: Panama ReprintsNicaragua celebrated by dispatching ships to patrol its new waters.

That summer, a group of Taiwanese twitchers were on an islet just off the Fujian coast, part of the disputed Mazu archipelago that has been controlled by Taiwan since the end of China's civil war in 1949.

These approximations allow a computer to cope with the problem, yet are sufficiently similar to many real places for the conclusions drawn from them to, as it were, hold water.The team made their virtual islet jut out of the ocean to an altitude of 100 metres, a typical height above sea level for such outcrops.

Some had received grafts of porcine skin for burns; others, "islet" cells from pig pancreases, to deal with their diabetes.