Sentence examples for state of nauru from inspiring English sources

The island state of Nauru, for instance, is nothing more than a moonscape after decades of mining it to fertilize the grain fields of Australia.

Had he arrived later, he may well have ended up in detention in Papua New Guinea or the tiny island state of Nauru.

The six countries in the region are among the top 10 with the highest prevalence of diabetes in the world, with the United Arab Emirates in second place, after the tiny Pacific island state of Nauru.

In 2012, Ms. Gillard's government effectively revived the Pacific Solution, opening offshore detention centers in the remote pacific island state of Nauru and on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.

In 2001 the former conservative government under John Howard brought in a so-called "Pacific solution", involving the dispatch of boat arrivals to camps in third countries such as Papua New Guinea and the island state of Nauru.

Our intention was to visit Australia and the tiny Pacific island state of Nauru – a country that depends on the money it receives for hosting the internationally criticised Australian offshore detention centre for asylum seekers.

Boat people would be sent to new detention camps on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea, and on the island-state of Nauru.

Tony Abbott, the leader of the conservative Liberal-National opposition, is demanding that boat people be processed instead in the tiny Pacific island-state of Nauru.

She announced that the government would start sending boat people to have their refugee claims processed in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the tiny Pacific island-state of Nauru, a practice that Ms Gillard's Labor Party had once decried.

Having a base beyond your shores at which to do such things has been tried by others: America lands refugees from Haiti and elsewhere at its Guantánamo Bay base on Cuba Australiaa takes them to the island-state of Nauru and to Manus island in Papua New Guinea, never letting them onto its own soil.

Meanwhile, about 2,300 asylum-seekers intercepted at sea in recent years are waiting to have their claims processed in two detention camps, one on the tiny island-state of Nauru and the other on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea.