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Sentence Examples Part of the main drag downtown was closed to traffic, and every night all kinds of films, classics to indies, were screened outside for free. Do indies have a real voice at the Academy, assuming that we don't count Miramax as an indie? Another huge difference between major studio distribution choices and indies is expectation. And while occasional events can happen for the other true indies, the disparity between the haves and the have-nots is getting greater. I guess that in the argument between the indies and the majors, the majors are after a quick buck. It's refreshing to see that even the smaller indies are able to contribute to large-minded charitable ventures. This would create a more dynamic industry, in which indies could compete more equally with the broadcasting monopolists. That still leaves three other major labels and countless indies around the world still to go. Just the name alone sends shivers up indies ' shot schedules and editing equipment. His definition refers to extant companies, implying the book is mainly about modern indies. A few indies have stood out, but works of significant art, or important social comment, have been largely seen as uncommercial. It's a move the band was practically forced to pursue after none of the Canadian indies the band shopped their demo to were responsive. In the UK alone, indies together account for a quarter of record sales. You want to know why the truly independent minded indies remain indie? The other foreign-finance indies are playing it much closer to the vest. Possessing licensing deals with the major labels and indies has become an important selling point to attract consumers away from the free file-trading sites. This is the kind of filmmaking that renews my faith in indies. There are, in fact, a great many indies dressed in studio clothing, trying desperately to imitate their conventional brethren in the hopes of national distribution. Even beyond indies vs. studio films, there became a schism at the studios. The indies have seen their cost of business rise beyond reason as well. Show More Sentences Napster Canada has licences from the big five labels as well as indies. I'm just as disenchanted with American indies as studio films. The indies continue to thrive against the odds and, more importantly, they have the vision, the music and the passion to make you a believer in the future of our business. Velazquez settled on the island of Espanola, where he befriended the Governor of the indies Bartolome Colon. Christopher Columbus was the first to do so in 1492 while sailing westward across the Atlantic Ocean on an expedition to the indies. The Governor of the indies at this time was Nicolas de Ovando, and after the revolt decided that five new towns should be built. Colon took a liking to Diego and when Colon had to leave the island for any period of time would make Diego acting Govenor of the indies. They won all four league games and lost the final to West Indies in the Triangular in Zimbabwe. Nearly all the slaves were brought to Bermuda from the West Indies or as slaves on ships captured by Bermuda privateers. I'll whisper this in case it is too much of a shot in the dark but I believe West Indies will win at least one Test in England. It is well documented that the Dutch colonists were particularly neglectful of the indigenous population of the Dutch East Indies for centuries. Go to my gallery for pictures from the 1st One Day international cricket match between the West Indies and South Africa. The island of Puerto Rico is the most easterly of the Greater Antilles group of the West Indies island chain. For the West Indies, Gayle got a century, not made at his usual frenetic pace. Although widely prolific in the West Indies, they have not flourished in this country, and cowpeas have more or less supplanted them. At any given time in our history, West Indies cricket has drawn on the available pool of young, talented and capable males for its sustenance. In 1585 he travelled to the West Indies and the coast of Florida where he sacked and plundered Spanish cities. West Indies won the inaugural Test 13 years ago, but had to rely on some unsportsmanlike tactics to avoid defeat five years ago. The Cape then was a regular stopover for trading vessels plying the Europe-East Indies route. The police have a success rate in interdicting the flow of arms that is even more dismal than the recent record of the West Indies cricket team. Show More Sentences They have again named an unchanged side, albeit one with a few chinks in the armour which West Indies could exploit. Sir Gawaine's British West Indies collection is part of a wider comprehensive collection of stamps from Great Britain and the British Empire. Baugh, Bravo, Mohammed and company may not be household names, but they have dragged West Indies back into this match and series. The sapodilla is usually eaten raw, though in the W. Indies it may be boiled down to make a syrup. Then you must know that I have a devilish rich uncle in the East Indies, Sir Oliver Surface, from whom I have the greatest expectations. After the lunch interval the West Indies began their reply backed by an expectant crowd. Such a situation would not be possible in unilingual sides like the Australian or the English or the West Indies. The latest crisis in West Indies cricket and the unceremonious sacking of the best WI talent is the ultimate insult to West Indians. Ramnaresh Sarwan steered West Indies to a comfortable six-wicket win over England in their one-off Twenty20 match on Sunday. To my mind there is nobody better suited than Lloyd for the job of president of the West Indies Cricket Board. Although latex was tapped from trees in parts of Assam, all the rubber from the East Indies got to be called India rubber. The last thing they wanted was to allow baronial power to take root in the Indies. The West Indies were constrained early in their chase by some healthy swing bowling aided by the overcast conditions. It occurs along coastal beaches of the West Indies and Central America, where its dense thickets are often cultivated to provide a windbreak. West Indies strolled to a composed victory over Sri Lanka to book their place in the semi-finals. Fugitive slaves from the West Indies or Guyana, or their descendants, were called Maroons. James II's queen and courtiers took profits from the sale of those transported to the West Indies. If they batted the overs West Indies would win so Vaughan had to go for the kill and Browne and Bradshaw stonewalled defiantly. The contracts were signed by the players on the opening day of the first Test against West Indies. In the aboriginal period the Cariban languages were important in the West Indies, Brazil, Peru, the Guianas, Venezuela, and Colombia. Show More Sentences They too were trying to get to the East Indies, where nutmeg, mace, pepper and cloves could be bought. A former West Indies player taught me my run-up back in 1999, at Kensington Cricket Club. Kallis was hit on the right elbow after attempting to hook a short pitched delivery from West Indies opening bowler Fidel Edwards. Substitute David Mutendera needlessly had a shy at the striker's end and the resultant overthrow fetched the West Indies four valuable runs. Okra and sweet potatoes are important vegetables, and callaloo figures as often as it does in the West Indies. It is the name given to various green leaves which form the chief ingredient of the soup called callaloo, popular in the West Indies and Brazil. Yet the design originated in the East Indies and, as often as not, was manufactured in Lancashire for export to African markets. The new West Indies management team seemed to have had a liking for the use of cutting-edge technology in its verbal assault. England's win against West Indies last year broke a sequence of nine decisive matches which were all won by the team fielding first. The Japanese also had their eye on the rubber plantations, mineral wealth and oil reserves of the Dutch East Indies. Chris Gayle and Wavell Hinds are both unreliable dashers, and West Indies can afford only one such player at the top. That plan appeared to be well on course until a flurry of wickets shortly after tea had West Indies wobbling. It is our hope and prayer that the humpback and other whales will be protected in the West Indies and other parts of the world. He was summoned to treat a wounded man who turned out to be a rebel, was arrested with his patient, and sent to the West Indies as a white slave. Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach, has maintained that his team will not take West Indies lightly in spite of whitewashing them in the one-dayers. Last summer, West Indies slumped to their first series defeat against England for 31 years and were then whitewashed 5-0 in Australia. It was abundantly clear that maritime European powers now had good reason to look for a direct sea passage to the Indies. The West Indies team in the fifth Test against England at The Oval in 2000 included eight left-handed batsmen. I know that you have already rededicated and recommitted yourself to West Indies cricket and its success. The analysts and critics have all been outputting their views as to the reason why the West Indies came out of the game with such distinction. Show More Sentences England have tonked the West Indies for their first series victory in the Caribbean for 36 years. He was one of the few Indonesians to attend a Dutch university in the Netherlands Indies. He played 29 tests for India and scored 1202 runs including a hundred against West Indies. In the same series, a camera panned to a West Indies fielder sheltering under a large umbrella. The objects brought from the Indies include hookahs, Indian dress, musical instruments and images of Hindu deities. The biggest factor that turned the game India's way in Barbados was the inept batting by West Indies. These characteristics must become second nature for West Indies cricketers at all levels. On a cold, damp December day in Bexley, who could blame anyone for dreaming of sun-drenched beaches in the West Indies? It was another historic match, a tough fight between bat and ball, but at the end the target of 313 proved to be a bit too much for the West Indies. But as Challenger approached the West Indies the crew encountered a phenomenon that dwarfed in importance even the discovery of manganese nodules. During the 19th century, cocus wood became available from the West Indies and quickly became the standard timber for flutes and other woodwinds from that period. The solenodons diverged from all other mammal groups an incredible 76 million years ago and were, until recently, among the dominant predators of the West Indies. The West Indies bowlers pegged away determinedly, while the Sri Lankan batsmen were in no mood to throw away their wickets before the showers came. Voodoo is the official religion of Haiti and was brought into the West Indies nation by African slaves. Students of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies who use vulgar language and dress lewdly have been publicly chided by a senior tutor. The capacity of North America to pay for its imports on such a scale depended to a considerable degree on its earnings from supplying the plantations of the West Indies. There was the hope to gain some advantage in the West Indies. His favourite shots were drives straight down the wicket and through the covers, but he also produced the occasional cut to pile on the agony for the West Indies attack. In all my born days I have never seen a West Indies side capitulate as often, as feebly or as carelessly as this one has done time and time again. He joined the navy as a midshipman when he was 16, and two years later sailed with Captain Bligh on the expedition to carry breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies. Show More Sentences For some years now the West Indies bowling has been very weak indeed. He was the first Anguillan to be called up to the senior West Indies team. This is the first book to offer a thorough English-language study on the vicissitudes of the Dutch and Dutch Eurasians during the Japanese occupation of the East Indies. He was once commissioned to write a history of West Indies cricket, but got so immersed in the research that he overran the wordage by several thousand. The floodlit one-day international between West Indies and New Zealand A at Bristol was abandoned without a ball being bowled because of persistent heavy rain. Only 18 electoral votes, but this is where Indies may swing the national election. The range of the cero mackerel is limited to the western Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts, USA south to Brazil, including the Bahamas and West Indies. In Britain and elsewhere, people knew what the East Indies were, and knew of events there. It belongs to the verbena family and comes from the East Indies. In the West Indies they make a really sickly sweet potato pudding. Chapter three represents the author's gleanings from the aforementioned 175 peninsular cases the author found mainly in the Sevillian Archive of the Indies. His exuberance and unflagging talents were duly noted by West Indies selectors and it wasn't long before he became a member of the West Indies under-19 team. The synchronized dance has locations from the West Indies to Austria and Hong Kong to Australia. The West Indies image, taken by Glaswegian royal photographer Harry Benson, was found undeveloped in a roll of archived film. We have ploughed a phosphorescent furrow in the darkness through chunky, Atlantic seas, windward of the West Indies, from Barbados down to Tobago. Tiger Pataudi, following the nasty injury to Nari Contractor in the West Indies, was pitchforked when he did not even know Indian cricket so well. Both species of the solenodon of the West Indies also are poisonous. From the spring of 1942 to the summer of 1945, the entire Dutch East Indies, including Buru, were occupied by the Japanese army. His 1512 voyage was the first known European sailing east past Malacca through modern Indonesia and the East Indies. These developments allowed the entry of chartered companies into the East Indies. Show More Sentences In anticipation of a vast increase in the number of the faithful from British India, the Dutch East Indies, etc. But important decisions were taken from the colony to Spain by the Council of the Indies. The archipelago was Spain's outpost in the orient and Manila became the capital of the entire Spanish East Indies. Thus, the creation of the Council of the Indies became another, but extremely important, advisory body to the monarch. Products brought from Asia were sent to Acapulco then overland to Veracruz, and then shipped to Spain aboard the West Indies Fleets. It performed excellently, but the perfectionist in Harrison prevented him from sending it on the required trial to the West Indies. When the Dutch colonized it as part of Netherlands East Indies, they called it Nieuw Guinea. In recent history, western New Guinea was included in the Dutch East Indies colony. Following Tidore's defeat, much of the territory it claimed in western part of New Guinea came under Dutch rule as part of Dutch East Indies. The international community in 1874 recognized the Spanish Empire's claim of sovereignty over the islands as part of the Spanish East Indies. By about 1817, a very solid state vaccination program existed in the Dutch East Indies. He acted under orders from Diego Columbus, recently restored as Viceroy of the Indies. He proclaimed the town as the island's capital, and the seat of the Spanish government in the East Indies. The letters are still preserved today at the General Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain. Survivors of the Magellan expedition brought tales of a savage island in the East Indies with them when they returned to Spain. The publication of the navigational routes enabled the passage to the East Indies to be opened to trading by the Dutch, French and the English. In that year, the sultanate was abolished and transformed into a residency of the Dutch East Indies. Thijssen's observations were included as soon as 1628 by the VOC cartographer Hessel Gerritsz in a chart of the Indies and New Holland. He later commanded several voyages to the East Indies, setting up trading posts on various islands. On 5 May 1601, he again sailed for the East Indies as master of the Lam, one of three ships in the fleet of Joris van Spilbergen. Show More Sentences On 4 December 1628, he sailed for Holland and on 16 July 1629, reported on the state of the Indies at The Hague. Van Spilbergen was at his deathbed and took Le Maire's report of his trip, which he included in his book Mirror of the East and West Indies. Unfortunately, by then, the Dutch West Indies Company had claimed the same waters. By 1778, the French were importing approximately 13,000 Africans for enslavement yearly to the French West Indies. As of 1778, it was estimated that the Dutch were shipping approximately 6,000 Africans for enslavement in the Dutch West Indies each year. In addition, tens of thousands of slaves, mostly from India and some from Africa, were carried to the Dutch East Indies. In 1811, Arthur William Hodge was executed for the murder of a slave in the British West Indies. In 1958, it became a province in the Federation of the West Indies, a federation among the British West Indies. The West Indies Regiment was reformed in 1958 as part of the West Indies Federation, after dissolution of the Federation the JDF was established. The Jamaica national cricket team competes regionally, and also provides players for the West Indies team. Chris Gayle is the most renowned batsman from Jamaica currently representing the West Indies cricket team. The Caribbean islands, or West Indies, are considered part of North America. In the West Indies, the prevailing winds, known as the trade winds, blow out of the southeast. The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles, within the West Indies. Trinidad and Tobago is represented at Test cricket, One Day International as well as Twenty20 cricket level as a member of the West Indies team. The Queen's Park Oval located in Port of Spain is the largest cricket ground in the West Indies. By 1650 there were 44,000 settlers in the West Indies, as compared to 12,000 on the Chesapeake and 23,000 in New England. Barbados is situated in the Atlantic Ocean, east of the other West Indies Islands. It was introduced to the West Indies in the late 17th century when slave trade ships travelled to the Caribbean from West Africa. When Loyalists left the South in 1783, they took thousands of their slaves with them to be slaves in the British West Indies. Show More Sentences American rebels obtained some munitions through the Dutch Republic as well as French and Spanish ports in the West Indies. Inniss believed that the bill was unconstitutional, and would soon be struck down by the West Indies Associated States Supreme Court. European colonization expanded with the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies, and the Spanish in the Philippines. In 1786, as a result of this tuition, Marc became a naval cadet on a French frigate and during his service visited the West Indies several times. But also to a lesser extent British interests were hurt in the West Indies and Canada that had depended on that trade. They occur along the whole chain of the Cordilleras and Andes, in the West Indies, New Zealand, Japan, etc. In 1794 Charles was promoted to a Captaincy in the 43rd Foot and posted to the West Indies with his wife and son. What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies. They were born in the East Indies, and make the eighth case of xiphopagus reported. Ravi Rampaul picked up a double wicket maiden when he claimed the scalps of Kieswetter and Wright as the West Indies made the perfect start. In effect, the PA became a paid arm of the IDF, not unlike the Harkis in Algeria or the Ambonese in the East Indies. Nash, nicknamed 'Nasty' also has the honour of being knighted by His Majesty King Leo 1st of Redonda in the West Indies. At the same time, there was nothing to warrant a comparison with the condition or the negroes in the West Indies. Others sailed with the British to England or were resettled as freedmen in the West Indies of the Caribbean. The general practice in the West Indies was to baptize, add color, and otherwise adulterate rum to make it appear better. Despite growing doubts, Columbus refused to accept that he had not reached the Indies. This included vast directions on how to navigate between Portugal and the East Indies and to Japan. The Scots also returned to the West Indies and in 1629 took part in the capture of Quebec. Joanna of Castile and Philip immediately added to their titles the kingdoms of Indies, Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea. In 1625, Olivares proposed the Union of Arms, which aimed at raising revenues from the Indies for imperial defense, which met strong opposition. Show More Sentences From the beginning of the exploration and conquest of the Indies, the Crown assumed the control of the venture turning away the Columbus family. The amalgamated company became the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies. The majority died of disease or made their way back to Europe, but some of them made the Indies their new home. He first named the island Anthony van Diemen's Land after his sponsor Anthony van Diemen, the Governor of the Dutch East Indies. As the French empire in North America grew, the French also began to build a smaller but more profitable empire in the West Indies. England was stimulated to create its own colonies, with an emphasis on the West Indies rather than in North America. He made two voyages to the West Indies, in 1570 and 1571, of which little is known. Sumatra is the second largest island in the East Indies and the fourth largest in the world covering 182,859 square miles. From the outset, slavery was the basis of the British Empire in the West Indies. Domingue into the British Empire and ensuring the slaves in the British West Indies would not be inspired to likewise revolt. At Nelson's request, Hood transferred him to his fleet and Albemarle sailed in company with Hood, bound for the West Indies. Nelson spent the rest of the war cruising in the West Indies, where he captured a number of French and Spanish prizes. Declining the post, he returned to his regiment, now at Southampton preparing to set sail for the West Indies. Bienville brought the first two African slaves to Louisiana in 1708, transporting them from a French colony in the West Indies. Previous slaves in Louisiana had been transported from French colonies in the West Indies. One passes into the Caribbean Sea, while a second, the Antilles Current, flows north and east of the West Indies. In addition, these countries share the University of the West Indies as a regional entity. From the sixteenth century onwards, the language was taken to America and the Spanish East Indies via Spanish colonization of America. The area, together with part of South Asia, was widely known as the East Indies or simply the Indies until the 20th century. The Indian indentured servants that were brought over from India by different European powers, brought this dish to the West Indies. Show More Sentences The sport is followed primarily in Australasia, Britain, the Indian subcontinent, southern Africa and the West Indies. West Indies cricket team does not represent one country instead an amalgamation of over 20 countries from the Caribbean. In 1980, Stamford Bridge hosted the first international floodlit cricket match in the UK, between Essex and the West Indies. On the same year the West Indies became the fourth nation to be granted Test status and played their first game against England. After drawing to South Africa, England defeated the West Indies and New Zealand comfortably. Despite England's strength on paper, Australia held the Ashes and the West Indies dominated England in the early part of the decade. During this period England defeated the West Indies home and away, New Zealand, and Bangladesh at home, and South Africa in South Africa. Despite suffering heavy defeats against the West Indies during the 1980s, England continued to do well in the Ashes. The Australians went on to the West Indies and had their chances but ended up losing the series. In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies and expanded to sixteen teams. The West Indies won a second consecutive World Cup tournament, defeating the hosts England by 92 runs in the final. The West Indies won the first two tournaments, Australia has won five, India has won two, while Pakistan and Sri Lanka have each won once. Six tournaments have so far been played, and only the West Indies, who currently hold the title, has won the tournament on multiple occasions. The third tournament was held in 2010, hosted by the countries making up the West Indies cricket team. West Indies are the current World T20I holders, beating England in the 2016 final, winning their second title. The 2010 ICC World Twenty20 tournament was held in West Indies in May 2010, where England defeated Australia by 7 wickets. After South Africa in 2007, England, West Indies and Sri Lanka hosted the tournament in 2009, 2010 and 2012 respectively. Their final group stage game was against the West Indies, where they lost by eight wickets. After the World Cup, former West Indies cricketer Phil Simmons took over the role of coach from Birrell. Ireland hosted a quadrangular tournament in Dublin and Belfast in July involving the West Indies, the Netherlands, and Scotland. Show More Sentences The West Indies were declared tournament winners because of a bonus point won against the Netherlands. In their first match of the World Cup, Ireland defeated the West Indies by 4 wickets, chasing down 304 runs with 25 balls to spare. Moreover, the French fleet refused to visit the American coast in 1780, having suffered significant damage in actions in the West Indies. There was much action in the West Indies, especially in the Lesser Antilles. As Britain rose in naval power and settled continental North America and some islands of the West Indies, they became the leading slave traders. The Netherlands received US aid for economic recovery in the Netherlands Indies. From the 18th century the city also grew as one of Great Britain's main hubs of transatlantic trade with North America and the West Indies. Today several thousand expatriate workers, principally from Britain, Canada, the West Indies, South Africa and the US, reside in Bermuda. Perhaps most interesting is its closeness to acrolectal English compared to other varieties in the West Indies. Many Bermudians, both black and white, who lack family connections to the West Indies have objected to this emphasis. Bermuda's national cricket team participated in the Cricket World Cup 2007 in the West Indies. Players from Montserrat are eligible to play for the West Indies cricket team. Jim Allen was the first to play for West Indies and he represented the World Series Cricket West Indians. The processing of sea salt was developed as a highly important export product from the West Indies, with the labour done by African slaves. A Methodist revival spread in the British West Indies due to the work of British missionaries. Scotland failed to qualify for the 2003 World Cup but successfully qualified for the 2007 event in the West Indies. In July, Scotland took part in a quadrangular series in Ireland against the hosts, the Netherlands and the West Indies. They lost their matches against Ireland and the West Indies with the match against the Netherlands being abandoned due to rain. Scotland competed in the qualifiers in the United Arab Emirates, to compete for a place in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies. The Belgian Revolution at home and the Java War in the Dutch East Indies brought the Netherlands to the brink of bankruptcy. Show More Sentences The heritage tourism is focussed on specific interest on Indonesian history, such as colonial architectural heritage of Dutch East Indies era. After calling at Madeira and the West Indies, the fleet made landfall off the coast of Darien on 2 November. England, France, and the Netherlands had also started colonies in both the West Indies and North America. It then passed legislation to limit colonial trade to the British West Indies and the British Isles. Moreover, American troops were being supplied with ordnance by Dutch merchants via their West Indies colonies. In the Netherlands, textiles were often inspired by batik patterns from the Dutch colonies in the East Indies. Between 1965 and 1970 Scotland played matches at Hamilton Crescent against New Zealand, the West Indies, MCC and Ireland. Slaveowners in the West Indies and the American colonies found that slaves were more productive if they were clothed. Fewer blacks were brought into London from the West Indies and West Africa. After World War II, the largest influx of Black people occurred, mostly from the British West Indies. Rum was the distilled spirit of choice, as the main ingredient, molasses, was readily available from trade with the West Indies. Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the West Indies in 1492, sparking a period of European exploration of the Americas. The eggs of two species are eaten in the West Indies because they are believed to have aphrodisiac properties. In the West Indies, the eggs of roseate and sooty terns are believed to be aphrodisiacs, and are disproportionately targeted by egg collectors. She then sailed south, arriving in the West Indies where she raised more havoc before finally cruising west into the Gulf of Mexico. By the late 13th century, Egypt linked the Red Sea, India, Malaya, and East Indies. Up until the late 1970s the main Chinmoy study centers were in New York, Florida and the West Indies. During the Napoleonic wars in Europe, the Netherlands fell to France, as did its colony in the East Indies. Dutch East India Company set their foothold on Batavia in the 17th century and was succeeded by Netherlands East Indies in the 19th century. Java is the most developed island in Indonesia since the era of Netherlands East Indies to modern Republic of Indonesia. Show More Sentences The region, together with part of South Asia, was well known by the Europeans as the East Indies or simply the Indies until the 20th century. The entire area of the Caribbean Sea, the numerous islands of the West Indies, and adjacent coasts, are collectively known as the Caribbean. He did not bring any of the coveted East Indies spices, such as the exceedingly expensive black pepper, ginger or cloves. It is now seventeen years since I came to serve these princes with the Enterprise of the Indies. As consistent trade increased between Spain and Portugal and the East and West Indies, respectively, so did piracy. In June 1762 British forces from the West Indies landed on the island of Cuba and laid siege to Havana. South Africa has also won the inaugural edition of the 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy by defeating West Indies in the final. The Laws of the Indies and other pertinent Royal Decrees were enforced in the Philippines and benefited many indigenous nobles. There was also an unskilled labour shortage, which the VOC later resolved by importing slaves from Angola, Madagascar, and the East Indies. Columbus had planned to inaugurate a regular slave trade between the Indies and Spain. It was put to use in the Atlantic slave trade, making at least two voyages carrying Africans to slavery in the West Indies. In the West Indies in particular, but also in North and South America, slavery was the engine that drove the mercantile empires of Europe. In a more restricted sense, the Indies can be used to refer to the islands of Southeast Asia, especially the Malay Archipelago. Today, the term Indies might be considered pejorative, patronizing and oppressive by some. Later, when Spain established a route to the Indies from the west, Portugal arranged a second treaty, the Treaty of Zaragoza. Various peoples in the East Indies and Brazil viewed the four main stars as the body of a ray. A triangular trade with New England, the West Indies, and Europe gave Newfoundland an important economic role. Bahamas is not a part of the West Indies Cricket Board, so players are not eligible to play for the West Indies cricket team. In his letter, Columbus seems to attempt to present the islands of the Indies as suitable for future colonization. At every turn, Columbus seems to attempt to portray the islands of the Indies as suitable for future colonization. Show More Sentences On September 24, 1493, Christopher Columbus departed on his second voyage to the west Indies, with a massive new fleet. On 25 June 1493, King Ferdinand secured a papal bull, Piis Fidelium, appointing him Vicar Apostolic in the Indies. The Danish West Indies became an insular area of the US, called the United States Virgin Islands. The West Indies cricket team includes participants from Guyana, which is geographically located in South America. Vespucci organized the fulfillment of Berardi's outstanding contract with the Castilian crown to provide twelve vessels for the Indies. In addition to being part of the Anglophone Caribbean, Guyana is one of the few Caribbean countries that is not an island in the West Indies. Guyana shares similar interests with the islands in the West Indies, such as food, festive events, music, sports, etc. They contributed to the establishment of the Dutch West Indies Company in 1621, and some were members of the directorate. However, it was apparent that the Dutch East Indies Company or VOC was still doing business in Ayutthaya despite political difficulties. Calabash Cove Resort and Spa, a resort in Saint Lucia, West Indies, has announced a Valentine's Day offer. Martin in the French West Indies as well as Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. West Indies ran into more trouble when they were skittled by a weakened Derbyshire team in less than 41 overs yesterday. CariSal will be the second largest dry calcium chloride plant in the Western Hemisphere and the largest caustic soda plant in the West Indies. Afterwards, they set the mine's dark shell in a park's sandy garden as an ornament together with shells of Strombus gigas from the West Indies. West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo defended his stumper, insisting he genuinely thought the ball hadn't touched the ground. A tough summer of good work against the West Indies and South Africa has been rewarded with 16 weeks in the old dart. Croix, he was the mulatto son of one of the leading white families in the Danish West Indies. Booker-McConnell was a firm with interests in the West Indies. He transported pomelos from Malaysia to the West Indies during the mid-18th century. Status of the volcanically threatened Montserrat Oriole Icterus oberi and other forest birds in Montserrat, West Indies. Find more words! 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