The Marianas are a U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean where our federal labor laws don't apply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. George Miller: House GOP Still Protecting Sweatshops] Reference

Kharagpur to Tinian in the Marianas is a straight-line 3,832 miles or seventeen and a half hours by B-29.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whirlwind] Reference

Economically, the development of the sugar industry, under the leadership of Matsue Haruji, in the Marianas was the most important.    From Wordnik.com.  [I. The Pacific Region, 1914-1945] Reference

Though Wake remained in Japanese hands until war’s end, the Marianas were an equally obvious roost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whirlwind] Reference

Marianas tropical dry forests - Encyclopedia of Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marianas tropical dry forests] Reference

Indies, and the Island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference

When the Ladrone Islands (Marianas) were a dependency of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

Marianas from the trusteeship; administered by the Office of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference

He said the Marianas "represented what is best about America.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Moyers: DeLay, Abramoff, and The Public Trust] Reference

EASTWOOD: Well, it is in direct line with the Marianas and Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2006] Reference

The Schouten group was invaded (May 28) and the Marianas (June 16).    From Wordnik.com.  [1944, Feb. 2] Reference

By 1935 there were 50,000 Japanese in Micronesia, 40,000 in the Marianas.    From Wordnik.com.  [I. The Pacific Region, 1914-1945] Reference

Don Walst (ph) changed the Marianas trench by landing on the bottom of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Exploration - January 1, 2000] Reference

This ecoregion comprises the Marianas chain from Farallon de Pajaros to Guam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marianas tropical dry forests] Reference

It had been Gotaro Sato who had been certain they were bound for the Marianas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miko]

Another arrow shoots out from the Solomon Islands and another from the Marianas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

Several endangered or extinct land snails have occurred in the Marianas as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marianas tropical dry forests] Reference

The Marianas are given ecoregional status on the basis of its endemic bird fauna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marianas tropical dry forests] Reference

Japan lost Saipan and the Marianas with its surrender to the United States in 1945.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saipan and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas; 7th in a 21st Century American Colonies series] Reference

Of the 12 restricted-range birds found in the Marianas, seven are strictly endemic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marianas tropical dry forests] Reference

By purchase, the Germans secured from Spain the Marianas (Ladrone) and the Palau Islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [1887] Reference

DeLay killed the bill in the House after touting the success of capitalism in the Marianas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virgin Islands helps Mariana Islands with sweatshop woes; 8th in a 21st Century American Colonies series] Reference

Marianas/Burns voted against bill to strengthen immigration oversight after receiving donation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Jack Abramoff and Montana US Senator Conrad Burns--Election Donations, Senate Bills and Pacific Islands] Reference

That is why today I reintroduced legislation to apply U.S. labor and immigration laws to the Marianas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. George Miller: DeLay and Abramoff OUT, Human Dignity for the Marianas IN] Reference

Because of recent volcanism, there is little forest on the nine main islands of the northern Marianas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marianas tropical dry forests] Reference

The Marianas are also subject to frequent severe storms and typhoons, averaging about one typhoon per year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marianas tropical dry forests] Reference

The Polynesian sheathtail bat (Emballonura semicaudata) hangs on in the Northern Marianas island of Aguijan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marianas tropical dry forests] Reference

But the voters can change Congress this November, and for sweatshop workers in the Marianas, they have got to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. George Miller: House GOP Still Protecting Sweatshops] Reference

(Marianas) Islands many members of wealthy and influential families whose passive resistance was an eyesore to the friars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

The stinging report shows the security threat posed to the United States by the lax immigration rules that govern the Marianas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. George Miller: DeLay and Abramoff OUT, Human Dignity for the Marianas IN] Reference

Van Balgooy groups Yap, the Marianas, and the Eastern Carolines (Truk, Pohnpei, Kosrae) together based on floristic affinities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yap tropical dry forests] Reference

"Even though I have only been here for 24 hours, I have witnessed the economic success of the Marianas," DeLay told a banquet crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Was the World When Haiti Really Needed It?] Reference

Saipan and the other Marianas were under U.S. military rule until made a part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in 1947.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virgin Islands helps Mariana Islands with sweatshop woes; 8th in a 21st Century American Colonies series] Reference

At noon, the admiral and his two sons went ashore to offer confession to the Catholic Apostolic Vicar of the Marianas and Carolines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castles of Steel]

For over ten years, I have been trying to get Congress to pass legislation that would extend labor and immigration laws to the Marianas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. George Miller: DeLay and Abramoff OUT, Human Dignity for the Marianas IN] Reference

During this same period the Japanese naval forces occupied a number of the German islands (Marshall Islands, Marianas, Palau, Carolines).    From Wordnik.com.  [13. The War in the Colonies, 1914-1918] Reference

In the present catalogue we have also included, by way of an appendix, the earthquakes which are known to have occurred in the Marianas or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalogue of Violent and Destructive Earthquakes in the Philippines With an Appendix: Earthquakes in the Marianas Islands 1599-1909] Reference