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Eni plans for the gas extracted offshore Cyprus to be transported via subsea pipes in the nearby Egyptian Zohr field to a gas processing plant on the mainland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The fundamental demand drivers for mainland Chinese customers buying Hong Kong policies were largely unchanged, while local customer demand remained decent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
A medical evacuation helicopter crash off Catalina Island that left three dead highlights the many risks of emergency transport to the mainland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
It was the first hurricane of an Atlantic season tamed by a historic El Nino weather phenomenon, and the first hurricane since 2024 to hit the US mainland.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
But at first money was no object, as in addition to his other income, Tycho was granted more lands on the mainland.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
The marsupials of Australia, the finches on the Galápagos, and many species on the Hawaiian Islands are all unique to their one point of origin, yet they display distant relationships to ancestral species on mainlands.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The Berlin-based ethnographer Alexa Clay, who studied change agents in her book, “The Misfit Economy,” talks about mainlands, islands and peninsulas.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016
The marsupials of Australia, the finches on the Galápagos, and many species on the Hawaiian Islands are all found nowhere else but on their island, yet display distant relationships to ancestral species on mainlands.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
The British had decided to get the pro-Axis revolt there in hand while the invasion of Crete gave them a breather on Middle Eastern mainlands.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the usual experience of archaeologists, inventions are supposed to flow from mainlands to islands, and small peripheral societies aren’t supposed to contribute revolutionary advances to the rest of the world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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