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The cardinal directions are: north, south, east, and west.
The cuneiform alphabet invented by the Sumerians was used by many languages in the ancient Near East.
The professor gave a lecture on the Middle East.
The South East region of England is densely populated.
It goes without saying that camels are very useful in the Middle East.
The fire, driven by an east wind, destroyed the center of the city.
There was an old castle to the east of the town.
The city lies east of London.
Cultures of the East and the West are mixed in this country.
There is a lake on the east of the village.
The sun always rises in the east.
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
No one knows whether there will be a war in the Middle East.
The Middle East is still called a powder keg.
The strong east wind lashed at our faces.
Because of the difference in climate, the same crop is not cultivated in the North and East of the country.
Fork-users are mainly in Europe, North America, and Latin America; chopstick-users in eastern Asia and finger-users in Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia, and India.
Forks were used for many years in Europe and the Near East, but only for cooking.
My uncle lives in the east of Spain.
My room faces east.
Movie subtitles
And it's a story we ignore at our peril, because today, after half a millennium of tilting westwards, the world seems inexorably to be tilting to the East.
Within a century of their construction, the decline of the East and the rise of the West had begun.
We tend to assume that it was Western technology that trumped the East. in particular, the technology that went on to produce the industrial Revolution.
The future of humanity surely lay in the East.
But why was the East so far ahead?
In 1 415, Zheng He reached the coast of East Africa.
Landing a Chinese eunuch on the East African coast was essentially the same as landing an American on the moon - pretty impressive.
By 1 506, the Portuguese had a near monopoly on shipping along the East African coast.
Nothing could better symboIise the transition of power from East to West.
The kind of economically driven civilization that today seems to be working rather better in the East.
We are at the hotel on East Cameron and he just went out for ice, and I only have a second.
I've achieved the highest sales in the East London area in the past fortnight.
The religious wars of the fanatics burned from morning to night The war fanned from east and west among the people.
A man once lived in the far east and possessed a valuable ring. The stone ring had a secret power of. making someone at peace with God and man.
Or in the North-East Polder, where a lot of students hid.
We hadn't come to Algeria for this, but to unite the East and the West like we'd sworn to do a few months earlier in Paris.
Let's all swear to unite the East's spiritual values with the material ones of the West.
Odilon, I'm uniting with the East on a daily basis.
A new world could come out of the union of the East and the West.
What about the union of the East and the West?
Did you forget our dream of uniting the East and the West?
Did he embody the successful union of the East and the West?
Uniting the East and the West?
And east is east, west is west.
So I beat it east, like I told you.
Cover every inch of ground, north, south, east, west.
Somewhere to the east, there's a mysterious barrier of mountains. called the Mutier escarpment.
We are located in an important position in East Asia.
Aren't we a country of the most courteous people in the East?
Do we really need to go all the way to the East Sea to see the sunrise?
Okay. We are at the hotel on East Cameron and he just went out for ice, and I only have a second.
You've been helpful in this place, I don't know east from west.
Edith and I are going to the concert on the east pier.
This looks like way down east.
Conditions a little bit unhealthy back east, eh?
If you ever come back east, look us up.
We thought we'd like to see the homes of the film stars before we go back east.
Baby, the sun rises in the east, it sets in the west.
London, Paris, Vienna, and points east.
Next week, East Lynne.
Look. Now the wind's blowing. from the east again.
News and current affairs
In my view, the most powerful argument to justify today's high price of gold is the dramatic emergence of Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East into the global economy.
A change of mindset is needed not just in the West, but also in the East.
Netanyahu was in the United States for yet another round of Middle East peace talks.
And, over time, Israeli settler disengagement from the West Bank and East Jerusalem has become just as impossible as any attempt by Israel to expel its remaining Arabs.
But for millions of Central and East Europeans, liberation was followed by Stalin's oppressive regime.
Whereas the Bush administration is deploying an additional 21,000 American soldiers in Iraq, and is pushing for more allied troops in Afghanistan, America's allies are rejecting its Middle East policy.
The good news for all women, East and West, is that President Karzai, under intense international criticism - and not just Western criticism - changed the law less than one week after the march.
For Poland and the other countries of East-Central Europe that have or are about to join NATO, membership in the Alliance didn't really require debate.
Now that the worst has, indeed, proven true, Ethiopia and all of East Africa will need to learn to live without the stabilizing influence of its great dictator-diplomat.
The Middle East is a place where the dust hardly ever settles.
As for America, anything it touches in the Middle East has become radioactive, even for longstanding clients and friends.
While this is a reasonable demand, the rest of the Middle East - and, indeed, much of the world, including Europe - regard the root cause of the conflict as Israeli intransigence and arrogance, together with America's blind support for it.
In the Middle East, we must break the stalemate.
In the east, China, its growth model unsustainable, could be underwater by 2013, as its investment bust continues and reforms intended to boost consumption are too little too late.
The end of the East-West ideological divide and the end of absolute faith in markets are historical turning points.
Israeli Jews are bound to stay in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Israeli Arabs are bound to stay in Israel proper.
For starters, the ENP assumes that all of the EU's neighbors, both in the south and in the east, ultimately want to realize European values and structures in their own countries.
Witness the upheaval in North Africa and the Middle East.
One problem is the disputed waters of the East China Sea.
The current drought covering much of East Africa - far more severe than past droughts - has been directly associated with climate change.
Helping to make societies in the Middle East and elsewhere more democratic might reduce the alienation that can lead to radicalism and worse, but this is easier said than done.
Finally, Baker was appealing to America's traditional allies in Europe and the Middle East, who need American friendship in many areas.
Furthermore the US, the EU member states and the East Asian countries all regulated inward foreign investment and imposed capital controls.
Even assuming stability in real estate prices, the global crisis surely will cause a fall in remittances by Africans working good jobs in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and the Middle East.
The opposite is true for regional groupings in Africa and in the Middle East where trade with the outside world is more important than intra-regional trade.