(a.) Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.
(a.) Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(2) Serum levels of vitamins A and E, zinc and iron were determined in healthy control subjects and lepromatous leprosy patients belonging to an eastern state of India.
(3) It is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States, where the incidence is highest in the eastern and midwestern states.
(4) In a third, central eastern focus infections with Mansonella pertans were found.
(5) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(6) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
(7) Nucleotide substitutions in the viral-encoded proteinase 3C (3Cpro) region (549 nucleotides) of the RNA genome of a coxsackievirus A24 variant (CA24v), one of the agents causing acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC), were studied using 32 isolates collected from the Eastern hemisphere in 1970-1989.
(8) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
(9) Between October 1981 and June 1983, the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) conducted a prospectively randomized trial (EST 1581) of the four most active chemotherapy regimens for metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
(10) It is a very widely cultivated plant in eastern countries like India, Bangladesh, Ceylon, Malaya, the Philippines and Japan.
(11) One hundred ninety-seven cases occurred in the city of Zanesville, with 34.7% of cases concentrated in two neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city.
(12) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
(13) British citizens travelling or studying abroad for more than three months are being refused benefits on their return under new rules designed to crackdown on benefit tourism from eastern Europe .
(14) It was concluded that transmission in eastern Mali has now been reduced to the levels required to control onchocerciasis.
(15) The Kalachakra Puja takes place in the eastern state of Bihar at the holy Bodhgaya site, where the Buddha gained enlightenment.
(16) Asked what would happen if Russia entered eastern Ukraine, the spokesman said: "What we are saying very clearly is that they should not escalate."
(17) Its nonstructural and capsid proteins are most closely related to those of eastern equine encephalitis virus while its glycoproteins are most closely related to those of Sindbis virus.
(18) Significant differences (p less than 0.05-p less than 0.01) were found, suggesting that the Eastern mothers strongly expressed their shame, whereas the Western mothers 'felt ashamed' to express it at all.
(19) The anti-Banzi viral factor inhibited the in vitro Banzi viral RNA synthesis but not that of Eastern equine encephalitis virus or of Japanese encephalitis virus.
(20) Mary and Gerry Menke from the small coastal community of Mallacoota in far eastern Victoria were among the 298 people who died when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was downed over insurgent-held eastern Ukraine on 17 July.
Southwestern
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course.
Example Sentences:
(1) Changes in haemolymph juvenile hormone (JH) concentrations of larvae of the southwestern corn borer, Diatraea grandiosella, were used to estimate the activity of the corpora allata.
(2) Our subjects were young adults born between November 1960 and December 1962 to persons living in 10 villages in southwestern Alaska.
(3) A dietary intake study for 250 low-income households in Claiborne County in southwestern Mississippi was conducted from June through August 1974.
(4) It was not immediately clear in which of the two countries Shateri was killed but a Syrian rebel commander said an Iranian official was killed in an attack carried out by Syrian rebels in Zabadani in southwestern Syria , close to the Lebanese border.
(5) In order to assess the extent of environmental pollution by Pb, Cd and Zn in the industrial area of Portoscuso (Southwestern Sardinia-Italy), anatomohistopathological, histochemical and chemical tests were carried out on the heart, liver, kidneys and bones of sheep slaughtered in the local abattoir.
(6) The study population was made up of 53 catheterized patients, 29 from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) and 24 from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSMC), and eight UTSMC patients with a less than 5% pre-test likelihood of coronary artery disease.
(7) Seasonal changes in the mean size of tsetse, Glossina pallidipes Austen, as indicated by wing vein length, were monitored during 1983-86 at Nguruman, southwestern Kenya.
(8) The frequency of asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia was investigated in rural and urban school-children aged six to 12 years in southwestern Nigeria between January 1987 and October 1988.
(9) In an attempt to discern the relationship between drug use and life satisfaction among college students, a slightly modified version of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Monitoring the Future Survey was administered to 683 students attending a major research university located in the southwestern United States.
(10) Replacing radioactively labeled probes by nonradioactive ones and detection by chemiluminescence instead of colorimetry allows a nonhazardous handling and offers the possibility of easily reprobing filters in Southwestern analysis.
(11) Low prevalences of CRS were observed in northeastern Japan, and high prevalences in southwestern Japan, with the highest in Okinawa.
(12) On the basis of Southwestern analysis, a sperm head protein(s) of 30-35 KD is identified as potential substrate for exogenous DNA binding.
(13) Gel shift analysis of intergenic spacer fragments and native Southwestern blots confirmed that cis-elements were localized in the rDNA intergenic spacer.
(14) Their significance is discussed in relation to Merino sheep flocks in southwestern Queensland.
(15) In June 1987 a major Southwestern Medical Center hired a complement of Certified Nurse Midwives to help relieve an increased Labor and Delivery workload.
(16) The ECTIM study, which is based on WHO MONICA centers in Belfast (Northern Ireland), Strasbourg (eastern France), Toulouse (southwestern France), and Lille (northern France), has been established to investigate this striking difference.
(17) Interviews were conducted with 150 Hispanic women, 47 to 93 years of age, in a southwestern city.
(18) Pneumococci from the southwestern United States (region 4) were more likely to be relatively resistant to penicillin.
(19) Hair samples from newborn heifer calves on Holstein dairy farms in southwestern Ontario were analyzed for selenium content by means of instrumental neutron activation analysis.
(20) The subjects were 57 adolescents, 63 parents, and 49 school personnel from three public high schools in a southwestern United States community.