Sentence examples for offshore communities from inspiring English sources

Peter Thiel, the libertarian investor, is an advocate of building floating, offshore communities outside the purview of nations and their laws.

Paul has been looking into opening an office in Silicon Valley and regularly meets with Peter Thiel, the PayPal billionaire and anti-regulation libertarian who has funded plans to create offshore communities beyond the control of governments.

The most realistic designs produced so far would reduce residents to living in cabins that, however sumptuously kitted out, would be little bigger than a typical millionaire libertarian's bathroom.Some seasteaders think the way forward is to build less ambitious offshore communities to demonstrate the potential of the idea.

"All of this suggests that, wow, there's been a big change in the composition of the offshore community," Dr. Robison said.

"It is the industry and the government's duty to work with the trade unions and the offshore community to learn lessons from this latest accident and to take every possible step to ensure that safety is enhanced and remains the first priority for those who service the oil and gas industry in the North Sea".

The influence of immigration from the offshore community onto the shelf is manifested in higher copepod diversity at stations sampled year-round on the Scotian Shelf and in the Bay of Fundy, compared to stations in the western Gulf which have less influence from the offshore environment.

Flores et al. [89] found high abundances of myctophids in the offshore community of the Weddell Sea, and suggested that the vertical migrations of these species (especially Electrona antarcticus) may represent a major energy transfer mechanism between surface waters and deeper layers in the Lazarev Sea food-web.

Therefore, with the exception of alewife, the majority of fishes occurred at depths less than four m, and a unique offshore community was not detected.

For nearly its entire run up the coast from Florida, Matthew hung just far enough offshore that communities did not feel the full force of its winds.

And they caution that because of the fluidity between onshore and offshore marine communities, the harm taking place deep at sea will come back to haunt the shallows, whether or not they are directly hit by the slick.

This chronicle can be looked at in ecological terms for example, how nearshore and offshore marine communities have changed through time, or how mammals and their relatives have competed for dominance with reptile groups on land.