island situation

Such treatment has to compensate these regions for their island situation.

Good venues were difficult to find in many west coast and island situations.

This was an island situation where the distance from suppliers and markets added considerably to the overall cost of farming.

The Davids Island situation, she added, is "like a family - money can make good relationships go bad," she said.

There were very strong parallels with the contemporary Falkland Islands situation, and the episode foreshadowed the events that led to the Falklands War.

Further, a 1993 court case based on a Long Island situation augurs well for a beneficial change in the way the city calculates its co-op and condominium assessments.

"In an island situation, the birds that put on the most mass, and eat the most, can dominate in terms of mating and territory," Dr. Cooper said in a telephone interview.

As bad as the Rhode Island situation may be, he said, there is an even worse one on the West Coast, where the marshals in Portland, Ore., often house prisoners in Boise, Idaho, 350 miles away.

So, coming back to Lang's article: we really need government to grasp the nettle and take responsibility for fixed transport infrastructure; we also need, given our island situation, government to set strategic rules on stockpiles and stock levels of major items like food, medicines and fuels.

We therefore need a unitary regulatory framework, such as we do not as yet possess, the consequence of that being that we have a divided market and a system that in practice works virtually nowhere, with the possible exception of in one Member State in an island situation; it is not yet working anywhere else.