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And when there were complaints about budget, I said, "Well, it's worth doing the island because you get twice for your money: reflections."
Eventually, we made it to a small island.
In the 1950s, this virus nearly wiped out the entire production of papaya on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
This is a six-story bespoke home on the island of Bali.
And if you take me and a chimpanzee and put us together on some lonely island, and we had to struggle for survival to see who survives better, I would definitely place my bet on the chimpanzee, not on myself.
I guess if they took almost any one of you, and placed you alone with a chimpanzee on some island, the chimpanzee would do much better.
I dedicated my presidency to having a space for those who felt marginalized on the island of Ireland, and bringing together communities from Northern Ireland with those from the Republic, trying to build peace.
What I didn't have to do as president was buy land on mainland Europe, so that Irish citizens could go there because our island was going underwater.
They actually could be able to live on their island and have a solution, but it would take a lot of political will.
They pulled them onto the boat, they got oxygen and blankets, and a Greek helicopter came to pick them up and take them to the island of Crete.
But you two traveled to the island of Lesbos very recently, you're just back a couple of days ago, in Greece, where thousands of refugees are arriving and have been arriving over the last few months.
But for our two southernmost islands, we had waves come over half the island, and so this has never happened before.
There was serious drought, and the people could not continue to live on the island, and so they were moved to live here in the Solomon Islands.
As a leader, you don't make plans to leave your island, your home, and so I've been asked on a number of occasions, "So how do you feel?"
So the centuries passed with Britains happily speaking Old English, but in the 700's, a series of Viking invasions began, which continued until a treaty split the island in half.
They are Papua New Guinea, Suriname and the tiny island nations of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau and Tonga.
And on the eastern end of the island, where the reefs are intact and thriving, you could barely tell a tropical storm had passed.
It's rained down in this case on the island of Abaco in the Bahamas.
When the missionary, Bartolomé de las Casas, visited the island, he wrote, 'From 1494 to 1508, over 3,000,000 people had perished from war, slavery and the mines.
Bali: island of garbage.
MW: We know that changes the image you may have of our island.
And we've been working for almost three years now to try to say no to plastic bags on our home island.
The volunteer team includes children from all over the island, from both international and local schools.
And last but not least, we distribute alternative bags, bags like net bags, recycled newspaper bags or 100 percent organic material bags, all made by local initiatives on the island.
Imagine an island where 100 people, all perfect logicians, are imprisoned by a mad dictator.
After much pressure from human rights groups, the dictator reluctantly agrees to let you visit the island and speak to the prisoners under the following conditions: you may only make one statement, and you cannot tell them any new information.
You leave, and life on the island seems to go on as before.
What any given prisoner doesn't know is whether they themselves are one of the green-eyed people the others are keeping track of until as many nights have passed as the number of prisoners on the island.
Of course, you could have spared the prisoners 98 days on the island by telling them at least 99 of you have green eyes, but when mad dictators are involved, you're best off with a good headstart.
When it was finished, Minos then imprisoned Daedalus and his only son Icarus within the top of the tallest tower on the island where they were to remain for the rest of their lives.
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