Sentence examples for its coastlines from inspiring English sources

Etzioni admits that China has flouted international laws by claiming rights over islands far from its coastlines.

The upshot cannot be known, but as fear tightens its grip, drilling for oil off its coastlines and reopening coal mines may be what the US resorts to.

Nino Kalandadze, Georgia's deputy foreign minister, says that the ships can carry up to 16 helicopters and more than 450 troops, giving Moscow much greater command of its coastlines.

The situation there is worth exploring a bit further, for it sheds light on some of the broad issues the nation will have to confront along its coastlines in coming decades.

For all of its historical disregard of environmental standards, it cannot have escaped the attention of the Chinese regime that China's skies are dangerously polluted, its beautiful rivers are dying, its grasslands vanishing, its coastlines receding, and its own glaciers melting.

The Australian continent is roughly the same size as the United States, yet it's the third least densely populated nation on Earth, with most of the 22 million-strong population living on its coastlines.

Out of a fear of typhoons and tsunamis, and an element of man-against-nature hubris, it has sealed much of its coastline in a girdle of concrete.

But the Moroccan government clearly feels it has missed a trick by ignoring the potential of its coastline - only 3.5 miles of it are currently developed for tourism.

It is building huge wind farms on its coastline and even runs some hydrogen-fuelled buses in Beijing.

These days, it's estimated South Australia has around 800 shipwrecks along its coastline.

Florida looks especially vulnerable — partly because it is such a large state with an economy as tied its coastline as Detroit's is to automobiles.