What's the difference between easternmost and westernmost?
Easternmost
Definition:
(a.) Most eastern.
Example Sentences:
(1) The initiative, unveiled last summer and currently being evaluated by Maine governor Paul LePage's administration, would make America's easternmost county the first to waive such taxes in a state that has them, and is intended to showcase economic libertarians' contention that taxes are a central impediment to economic development.
(2) To give the plan a fighting chance, Ecuador committed to forego half of the estimated value of the oil in its easternmost concession block if it received a total of US$3.2bn over a period of 13 years.
(3) Michael Brown , who bankrolled the party with £2.4m of stolen money, was detained near the resort of Punta Cana on the easternmost tip of the Caribbean island this week.
(4) Forecasting snow is always challenging and there’s often a fine line between whether it will rain or snow in a particular location depending on slight changes in air temperature.” The outlook for the UK over the weekend was for generally dry weather on Saturday, with sunny spells across most of England and Scotland and a few showers, locally wintry, in Northern Ireland and western and easternmost parts of Britain.
(5) The genetic polymorphism of eight red cell enzymes was analyzed in four population samples from the two easternmost islands of the Canary Archipelago.
(6) Serum samples from 475 male and 420 female subjects from the population of eastern Caprivi, the north-easternmost territory in northern Namibia, were examined for the presence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), antibodies to HBsAg (anti-HBs) and hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc).
(7) Waging war!” After two years of relative calm, the sounds of war have returned to the easternmost part of Turkey , where Kurds have lived on the frontline of a bloody conflict between the Turkish state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) for decades.
(8) Before 2010 it had mostly engaged in low-key terrorism – daredevil raids on police stations to steal weapons, on banks to steal money and on prisons to free jailed terror suspects – confined to the north-easternmost part of the country.
(9) • Russian troops have taken over a ferry terminal on the easternmost tip of Crimea in the city of Kerch and Russian armoured cars were lining up on the Russian side of the Kerch Channel .
(10) The 45-year-old son of a local councillor and electric power station director, Hofer was born in Burgenland, Austria’s easternmost and least prosperous state, trained as an aeronautical engineer and spent his early career at Lauda Air.
(11) If there’s war again, it will be all-out civil war.” In Şemdinli, a small town nestling in Turkey’s easternmost corner between the Iranian and Iraqi borders, and where PKK fighters led their first armed attack against Turkish security forces in 1984, hope for peace is hanging by a thread.
(12) The bishop of Burgenland, Austria’s easternmost province, recently refused to let Austrian authorities erect a border fence on church land, saying erecting borders was against the Gospel message – but only this week he warned that Europe must not be “too naive” regarding plans to Islamise Europe.
(13) Part of Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province on New Guinea island, West Papua is ethnically distinct from the rest of the country and was annexed by Indonesia in 1969.
(14) Water Street, the main drag in Eastport, America's easternmost incorporated city, is missing something: boarded up storefronts.
(15) It appears that this parasite occurs only on the easternmost islands of the Indonesian archipelago where it is nonetheless a rare finding.
(16) The sources said he was at the early, information-gathering stages of an investigation into a suspected smuggling operation, and noted that elements of the FSB – the Federal Security Bureau, successor to the Soviet KGB – were heavily involved in trafficking of contraband products across the European Union's easternmost border with Russia.
(17) Waiters in the hotels along Punta Cana beach, a curve of white sand on the easternmost tip of the Dominican Republic , say the Scottish man in bermuda shorts is known as the owner of Charlie, a rottweiler-alsatian cross which is usually by his side.
(18) Ethnohistorical records suggest that the Meiteis are of Mongoloid origin, while the original Brahmin settlers represent the easternmost part of the so-called Caucasoids.
(19) Separately, video has emerged of a conversation between a journalist and a soldier in Kerch in easternmost Crimea in which the soldier admits to being Russian and says he’s there to defend against terrorists.
(20) While on the island, Brown has been based in the province of La Altagracia, the easternmost tip of the Republic close to some of its most beautiful beaches.
Westernmost
Definition:
(a.) Situated the farthest towards the west; most western.
Example Sentences:
(1) Autochthonous human samples of the three westernmost islands of the Canarian Archipelago, La Palma, Gomera, and Hierro, have been analyzed for eight red cell polymorphic enzymes.
(2) Open 11 April-29 September, camping from €18 a night for two, wooden bungalows from €30 a night for four Camping Les Baleines, Île de Ré, near La Rochelle Get back to nature at this campsite at the westernmost tip of the Île de Ré, reached by a bridge from the mainland.
(3) A group of six were visible in a report by al-Jazeera from Dafniya, described as the westernmost point of the rebel lines in the city.
(4) But far from Havana, in the country’s westernmost municipality of Sandino, the local priest Cirilo Castro has something far more practical on his mind: how to transform a rock in an empty field into the first new church in Cuba since the 1959 revolution.
(5) Foreigners are barred from entering Maungdaw, but local staff working undercover for the Arakan Project, an international NGO monitoring Burma's westernmost state, said they saw the body being taken away by police.
(6) In Libya’s westernmost town, Zuwara, anger exploded last year when 183 migrant bodies washed up on the beach.
(7) After age standardization, the rates for mortality from all causes and cardiovascular mortality were substantially higher in the Westernmost communities compared with those in the East, whereas for non-cardiovascular mortality there were no systematic differences.
(8) China also wants to see Pakistan tackle Jihadi militants and help end the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, given the links they have with Muslim separatists in China’s westernmost Xinjiang region.
(9) In Syria, a US-backed militia, made up mostly of Syrian Kurds allied to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), as well as some Arab fighters, has been trying to cut the road between the second Isis vanguard of Raqqa and al-Bab, which is its westernmost stronghold.
(10) The population of common seal Phoca vitulina in the westernmost part of the Wadden Sea, The Netherlands, has collapsed during the past few decades.
(11) These parameters indicated that the westernmost boundary of the subspecies Haemonchus contortus cayugensis is the Chautauqua valley in New York.
(12) This 2,000-year-old oasis city is at the westernmost part of China, where north and south Silk Roads met, creating a frenzy of trade.
(13) The exhibition, titled “From Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, from the eyes of travellers” featured photos from Russia’s westernmost Baltic region to the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the east.
(14) We report a case of chronic lobomycosis, contracted by a rural resident of the westernmost Brazilian state, Acre, and substantiate that western Amazonia is now an endemic area for Loboa loboi.
(15) Chris Lewa, head of the Arakan Project, an international agency monitoring Burma's westernmost state, said witnesses had reported between 50 and hundreds dead.
(16) It’s an old jetty in the city’s Ikoyi neighbourhood that sticks out into the still waters of Five Cowrie Creek, which separates Lagos Island from the Lekki Peninsula at its westernmost tip.
(17) The authors present here the results of a serological survey on arbovirus infections, which was conducted on 116 out of 505 inhibitants of Wuvulu island, the westernmost island of the Bismarck archipelago, located 260 km north of Wewak, Papua-New Guinea.
(18) This trust deficit has been exacerbated by revelations not only from Fukushima, but also in recent weeks from Japan's westernmost nuclear plant in Genkai, Saga prefecture.
(19) At the end of the US-Mexican war in 1848, this stone marked the westernmost border between the two countries - a line in the sand.
(20) On the Delta's eastern border, in Port Said, an empty stone plinth is all that remains of a statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the man who built the Suez Canal; somewhere along the Delta's westernmost reaches, the long-lost tomb of Cleopatra lies buried.