Wake Islander English

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What does Wake Islander mean?

Wake Islander noun

— someone from Wake Island.

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Together with Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan he had to leave government in 1974 in the wake of the Yom Kippur War.

They don't need to drag Britain and others kicking and screaming in their wake because the others are not compelled to join them.

A quarter of the labor force and half of Spain's youth are unemployed, reflecting the country's loss of competitiveness in the wake of the real-estate bubble inflated by cheap euro credit in the pre-crisis period.

In many cases, the cohesiveness of opposition movements that come to power in the wake of a political upheaval may not be what the international media presume it to be.

In the wake of the Stanculescu conviction, the Interior Minister reiterated his proposal for a general amnesty for all soldiers involved in the violence of 1989.

In Germany today, conservatism was forged in the wake of the Weimar Republic's failures, experiences unknown to Anglo-Saxon conservatives.

Now, in the immediate wake of the Russia-Georgia crisis, Turkey's leaders have stepped forward once again to take a leadership role in the Caucasus.

Even the traditional Arab monarchies and Emirates are changing in its wake.

The problem of American power in the wake of the financial crisis is not one of decline, but of a realization that even the most powerful country cannot achieve its aims without the help of others.

Indeed, more often than not, the banks that failed or had to be rescued in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis had solvency ratios higher than those of banks that remained standing without assistance.

Fukushima was a wake-up call for all countries that use nuclear power.

Moreover, in the wake of the eight-day clash, Hamas's long-exiled leader, Khaled Meshal, who had never before dared to show himself openly to Israel, entered Gaza from Egypt.

Or, to be precise, a carbon tax could substitute for the huge array of taxes that is eventually coming anyway in the wake of massive government budget deficits.

How many wake-up calls do we need?

But, despite gold's heightened allure in the wake of an extraordinary run-up in its price, it remains a very risky bet for most of us.

Or they can treat the crisis as a wake-up call to fix what debt has papered over in the last few decades.

Nevertheless, the reports about Kim's ill health hit like a rude wake-up call about the precarious nature of conditions in North Korea.

This is Asia's second wake-up call in three years, and this time the region needs to take the warning seriously.

In the wake of September 11, 2001, in particular, many on the right mistook the attempt to understand or explain the terrorists' actions as an effort to condone them.

Greece in the spring of 2010 sent a wake-up call to Great Britain.

Acclaimed as a national hero among radical right-wingers, the iron-fisted Park Chung-hee ruled South Korea from 1963 to 1979, in the wake of the 1961 military coup, only to be assassinated by his intelligence chief.

A wake-up call for Japan was Obama's inaction in 2012, when China captured the Scarborough Shoal, part of the Philippines' exclusive economic zone.

The junta leaders have done little to facilitate recovery efforts in the wake of the disaster.