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Iceland

Iceland is an island country in the northern Atlantic Ocean. Iceland is halfway between Europe and North America.

Iceland

a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle an island republic on the island of Iceland; became independent of Denmark in 1944

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Republic of Iceland the Republic of Iceland

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Simple sentences

Iceland belonged to Denmark.
Reykjavík is the capital of Iceland.
Iceland used to belong to Denmark.
There's a volcano emitting masses of smoke in Iceland.
He has lived in Iceland for a long time.
Iceland has many volcanoes.
Iceland was fantastic.
Iceland has one of the smallest Muslim communities in the world.
I do not need a residence permit because I am from Iceland.
All of them are from Iceland.
He lived in Iceland very long.
What's the minimum salary in Iceland?
I would like to live in Iceland.
Today is a national holiday in Iceland.

Movie subtitles

You know, they cooked, they bought art, they went to Iceland, which I know, because I stalked Coco online until 2:00 a.m. last night.
It all leaves for Iceland in two days, which means every piece gets ID'd, sized, and carefully packed so that we don't have any problems with customs.
Her name is Brunhilde and she is Queen of Iceland.
Pish for thee, Iceland dog. Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland.
You will pick up the homeward-bound convoy R20, at a rendezvous off Iceland, which will be signalled later.
She sailed by night off the coast of Norway, passed unobserved through the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland, and vanished into the southern Atlantic where a supply ship was already waiting for her.
We got a radar blip on her just off Iceland.
Here's the Denmark Strait, the passage south of Iceland, the Faeroes-Shetland Passage, and the Fair Island Channel between the Orkneys and the Shetlands.
What about the Iceland-Faeroes Channel?
Group North has suggested the Iceland-Faeroes Passage.
Wherever we might go, be it to China or Iceland or anywhere, you'll find a happy life, sir.
Like the hot springs in Iceland!
Iceland? Where's that?
I'm in Italy, the Solomons, in Ireland and England and Iceland, wherever there is a soldier, sailor or marine.
I could be anywhere from Iceland to the coast of Africa.
Now, let me see, Iceland, Auckland, the Truk Islands.
Midway between Greenland and Iceland.
Glou-kester Iceland.
Zanzibar, Iceland.
That's right in the middle of Iceland.
And now the green Chesterfield has taken guard and Iceland are putting on their spin dryer to bowl.
Fresh from the leaves of iceland's history.
This is iceland.
It's a stupid, pointless job, but at least it keeps me away from Iceland!
It's probably thermal springs, exactly like parts of Iceland.
That volcano in Iceland, Mount Hekla.
Thou prick-ear'd cur of Iceland!
It's like the hot springs in Iceland.
Come from Iceland, I reckon.
She came from Iceland a few years ago.
Here in Iceland they've been looking for one treasure ship for twenty years, and they haven't so much as found a single bloody deck nail.
OK,. Iceland?
It's like moving from Iceland to Finland.
I therefore recommend we make a quick but cordial follow up phone call to Iceland, a little gentle handling, let Einer know that we're right on top of this thing.
But I have already and I will be happy to assure you again that as soon as the contracted payments arrive from Iceland, your percentage will immediately be passed on.
From Iceland.
Brother Ben, I bring you greetings from the treeless tundra of Iceland.
The modern age changed everything, Mr Thorson. But it's my guess that there's still vestigial interest in the folklore of Iceland.

News and current affairs

The US is often said to be more charitable than other countries; but, in terms of the proportion of the population donating money, Myanmar, Malta, Ireland, the UK, Canada, the Netherlands, and Iceland all do better.
Iceland, which privatized and deregulated its banks a few years ago, now faces national bankruptcy, because its banks will not be able to pay off foreign creditors who lent heavily to them.
Israel and Iceland were next, in 1955, followed by Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Argentina, the UK, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, the US, France, Japan, and Italy.
Today, however, European science is declining in almost all countries (Sweden, Finland, and Iceland are exceptions), wasting existing talent and losing attractiveness for young people.
The experience of Iceland and many emerging markets over the past 20 years shows that nominal depreciation and orderly restructuring and reduction of foreign debts can restore debt sustainability, competitiveness, and growth.
Government ministers and EU representatives repeatedly cite the example of Iceland in pointing out what might have happened to Ireland if it had been outside the EU.
Indeed, the British would leave just when Iceland, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine, despite Europe's current crisis, are trying to get in.
But the debate can be moved forward by examining the successful economies of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
To be sure, there are also differences among the Nordic states, with social welfare spending the highest in Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden, and a bit lower in Finland and Iceland.
According to Transparency International, the Nordic countries have the world's least corrupt political systems (with Iceland and Finland ranking as the least corrupt), while the US, with its big money politics, is fairly far down on the list.
The Netherlands heads the list, followed by Norway, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, and Germany.
While the United States is the best-known case, a combination of lax regulation and supervision of banks and low policy interest rates fueled similar bubbles in the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, Iceland, and Dubai.
A breakthrough came in December 1998, when Iceland's parliament approved a bill giving a private biotechnology company legal access to a comprehensive genetic database - the first of its kind - for the country's entire population of 270,000.
Iceland has kept medical data on its population for more than a century, including records of the deceased.
But there was no evidence that the more widely dispersed ash blowing over Europe from Iceland would cause similar problems.
Once high-flying small economies like Ireland, Hungary, and Iceland break down.
As Cameron himself stated after a recent visit to Iceland, the Norwegian option of engaging in free trade with the EU as a non-member is far from ideal.
Exchanging EU membership for membership in the European Economic Area - along with Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein - would mean losing all influence over the shape of the internal market and the EU budget.
In Iceland, 11,000 families have offered to host refugees, as have many thousands of others throughout Europe.
We will never know exactly what was going on in Tilly's mind, but we do know that he has been in captivity since he was about two years old - he was captured off the coast of Iceland in 1983.
In Iceland, the three largest banks built global balance sheets that were between 11 and 13 times the size of the economy.
In Iceland and Ireland, banks outgrew their governments' ability to support them when needed.
In Ireland, last autumn's financial crisis provoked a turnaround in public opinion about the EU, and even in Iceland, although it lies on the periphery of our continent, membership of the EU and the euro have become a priority.
MADRID - Twenty-five years ago, at a summit in Rejkjavik, Iceland, US President Ronald Reagan stunned the world and his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, by proposing global and comprehensive elimination of all nuclear weapons.

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