How To Use Western hemisphere In A Sentence
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In 2001, Warren White, a salvor with a reputation for blowing up wrecks to find their hidden gold, announced that a wreck off the coast of Panama -- the oldest ever found in the Western Hemisphere -- was Vizcaina.
Books: Columbus's Last Voyage
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If we are to start repealing honors we can begin much closer to home, with much less significant figures and with much punier accomplishments, than with Columbus and the European discovery of the western hemisphere.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Christopher Columbus — Hero or Villain?
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The 625-strong observer force, which will have a six-month renewable mandate, is the first in the Western hemisphere.
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The Western hemisphere would soon be in range of and vulnerable to Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, carrying megaton warheads.
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Tickets for the viewing platform of the tallest tower in the western hemisphere are now on sale.
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This requirement to keep nuclear weapons out of the southern part of the western hemisphere is reinforced by Protocol 11 of the treaty.
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Sometime during the last ice age nomadic tribes of hunter-gatherers from Asia first crossed the Bering Strait and entered the Western Hemisphere.
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Seldom did they see Faerie people or Leprecauns in their neck of the woods, so they did not want to miss the opportunity to examine these unexpected visitors for their encyclopedic almanac of the native peoples of the western hemisphere.
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They figured that all men in the western hemisphere would be worn to a frazzle because they would try to watch all the matches (which all show in the wee hours of the morning) AND go to work too.
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The largest recipient of U.S. military and other aid in the Western hemisphere is Colombia.
Matthew Yglesias » World Refugee Day
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It has the longest single concrete arch in the Western Hemisphere, a semi-circle which echoes the graceful curve of the dam upstream.
Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge Prepares For Travelers
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In addition, USAID is supporting efforts to eliminate two other NTDs in the Western Hemisphere - lymphatic filariasis and river blindness.
Peter Hotez: Clinton-Sebelius-Obama Apologies for Guatemala Are Just the First Step
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They say God spoke to them and told them to go on a mission to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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The target: an agreement among all the nations of the Western Hemisphere to cooperate in cutting the flow of firearms.
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But it is not just countries in the western hemisphere.
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Haiti was the first island in the Western hemisphere to overthrow slavery and white oppression -- this is what you call a pact with the Devil?
Paul Raushenbush: Go to Hell, Pat Robertson: Haiti Needs Help, Not Stupidity
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For centuries, Africans and their descendants have crossed oceans and lands to put their unique stamp on the history of the Western Hemisphere.
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Haiti is the poorest, most backward, unenlightened nation in the Western hemisphere.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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There was once a time when fast food was a western hemisphere phenomenon, but those days are long gone.
The Sun
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Why not do something about our money, which looks like the most unconsidered piece of design in the Western Hemisphere?
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The Jaguar is the largest cat native to the Western Hemisphere.
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This is a very partial list, restricted to US sins and crimes in the Western Hemisphere.
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Bolivia, the only landlocked country in the Western Hemisphere, is home to almost eight million people.
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It is the poorest and most hopeless country in the western hemisphere.
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It is the poorest and most hopeless country in the western hemisphere.
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As a first approximation of winter range, I plotted museum specimen records by month on maps of the Western Hemisphere.
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Santo Domingo is the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the Americas with the oldest cathedral and the oldest hospital and the oldest monastery in the Western Hemisphere
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In 1492, Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the Western Hemisphere in The Bahamas.
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Venezuela holds the Western Hemisphere's largest oil reserves, so high prices "allowed Chávez to talk tough," said Milos Alcalay, former ambassador to the United Nations under Chávez before resigning in 2004 in protest over what he called abuses of democracy.
NYT > Global Home
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In March 1961, Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution was a three-alarm reminder that CIA-engineered coups weren't enough to keep communism out of the western hemisphere.
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Now celebrating its 75th anniversary, the planetarium was the first built in the Western hemisphere, and the first with a Zeiss, an optical projection device creating the illusion of a night sky.
CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2004
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The Museum's holdings in Asian ethnology constitute one of the finest such collections in the Western Hemisphere.
NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art
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They say God spoke to them and told them to go on a mission to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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Aguirre called the abductions "serious and without precedent in the Western Hemisphere.
Brownsville Herald :
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Even though I've spent years of my life making other people look their best for photo ops, I myself am probably one of the least photogenic people in the western hemisphere.
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In the 1930s, Meyer Lansky, leader of a Jewish crime organization known as the Syndicate, controlled more gambling operations in the western hemisphere than anyone, with major casinos in Miami, Saratoga Springs, New York, and Havana, Cuba.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the western hemisphere.
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Should the US, Canada and the European Union make good on their threat of an aids cut-off, Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, will be devastated.
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It is now the poorest country in the western hemisphere.
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In March 1961, Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution was a three-alarm reminder that CIA-engineered coups weren't enough to keep communism out of the western hemisphere.
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Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the western hemisphere.
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They are found in the eastern and western hemispheres and nest on beaches throughout the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
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Tickets for the viewing platform of the tallest tower in the western hemisphere are now on sale.
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Throughout its range in the western hemisphere, the mongoose is a pest; and the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture has done well in securing the enactment of a law peremptorily prohibiting the importation of any animals of that species into the United States or any of its colonies.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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Pests - among the insects attacking the leaves of sweet potato are leaf folders (Brachmia spp.), Bihar hairy caterpillar (Diacrisia obliqua), both in South-East Asia and Indonesia, and sweet potato hornworm (Agrius convolvuli) throughout the eastern hemisphere; in the western hemisphere, army worm (Spodoptera sp.), Alabama argillacea and Manduca singulata are often serious.
Chapter 30
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The 625-strong observer force, which will have a six-month renewable mandate, is the first in the Western hemisphere.
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But it is not just countries in the western hemisphere.
Times, Sunday Times