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Pacific

The Pacific is a name for the Pacific Ocean.

pacific

promoting peace the result of this pacific policy was that no troops were called up (= peaceable) disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature the pacific temper seeks to settle disputes on grounds of justice rather than by force a quiet and peaceable person in a peaceable and orderly manner

Pacific

the largest ocean in the world relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean Pacific islands

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Pacific Ocean South Seas peaceful

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Simple sentences

The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic with the Pacific.
The boat sailed across the Pacific Ocean.
We are flying over the Pacific.
I will be flying over the Pacific about this time tomorrow.
The river flows into the Pacific Ocean.
The Pacific Ocean is one of the five oceans.
It took courage to sail across the Pacific single-handed.
He crossed the Pacific Ocean in a sailboat.
He was the first man to cross the Pacific.
That river flows into the Pacific.
This river flows into the Pacific Ocean.
She successfully crossed the Pacific with a ship.
We enjoyed a long trip across the Pacific.
I went to the South Pacific for a summer of romantic adventure.
It is believed that the festival comes from the South Pacific islands.
Far away across the Pacific lies the American Continent.
The Pacific is the largest ocean in the world.
He crossed the Pacific Ocean in thirty days.
He failed in the attempt to sail across the Pacific Ocean.
I live in the Pacific time zone in the USA.
Unfortunately, three days ago a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Japan's Tohoku region.
We are only separated by the Pacific Ocean.

Movie subtitles

The charts are never up to date in this part of the Pacific. You know that.
I saw an island in the Pacific once.
The Pacific Coast.
I had a vague idea I'd like to see the Pacific Ocean.. orperhapsdrowninit.
When you get to the coast.. senda postcardwithaview of the Pacific Ocean.
I'd say the straightest way to go. would be from Cripple Creek here straight through to the Pacific.
At least two, Atlantic and Pacific.
Doctor, you have lifted the Pacific Ocean right off my neck.
Don't you find that the United States is inclined to forget that most of the world is at war already, with more war to come perhaps in the Pacific?
Amador guards the Pacific approach, doesn't it?
OUR PACIFIC FLEET IS HUNTING FOR THEM.
North Pacific area.
I'm Walter Neff, Pacific All Risk. Pacific all what?
The charts are never up to date in this part of the Pacific.
The Pacific is filled with uncharted islands.
How's Pacific Limited?
We are here to listen to Mr. Dillard's plans to finance the Nashville Pacific.
Pacific, and build it east.
You didn't give the Canadian Pacific a chance.
Northern Africa, Europe as far east as the Urals. then the New World, to the north, to the south. west to the Pacific, over the Pacific to China and the Indies. will our empire spread.
The United States was at peace with that nation and at the solicitation of Japan was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking towards the maintenance of peace in the pacific.
For you are the partners of our American boys who are shedding their blood. on the stormy waters of the North Atlantic, the desert wastes of Africa. the rocky crags of the Aleutians, the steaming jungles of the South Pacific.
I'll talk to Charlie at Pacific Airways.
The Pacific ocean.
Wandering up and down the whole Pacific Coast, wherever there was a mountain.
All the wide, bright way to the Pacific sea.
Pacific all what?
All over the Pacific.
So we heard in the Pacific.
It was in the South Pacific, and it wasn't the maternity ward.
They were in the Pacific.
My hands haven't trembled like this since I was in the South Pacific.
I have a report in front of me that says you never were in the South Pacific, Mr. Niles.
They sent him to the South Pacific.

News and current affairs

The Maldives and a host of Pacific Island states will disappear: our twenty-first-century Atlantis.
But the need for spending cuts also raises the prospect that the US might be unable to finance a military shift toward the Asia-Pacific region - or, worse, that it will be forced to retrench there.
The refocus on trade and economic issues has also prompted Washington to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which aims to create a new Asia-Pacific free-trade group that excludes China.
The Asia-Pacific region will loom larger in Obama's second-term agenda, especially as the ongoing US troop withdrawal ends the Afghanistan war by 2014.
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vladivostok last year created a mere enclave of development.
And he supports Japan's entry into the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership, an emerging regional trading bloc that will exclude China.
But such an Asia-Pacific peace will be durable only if it is based on a balance of mutual benefits rather than on the balance of power.
Clearly, this concept implies burden-sharing by all Asia-Pacific countries to ensure the region's harmony and security.
In Asia and the Pacific, children routinely work endless hours, sleep on factory floors and subsist on scanty rations.
China's emergence as Asia's dominant power, and the overall regional balance of power, are now matters that governments across the Pacific must reckon with carefully.
Clearly, the war on terrorism presented China with opportunities to strengthen both its relations with the US and its ties with nations across the Pacific.
Congressional proposals to include currency provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the mega-regional free-trade agreement currently in the final stage of negotiations, presumably target Japan (as China is not included in the TPP).
It fails, for example, to take into account the hostile strategic culture against the US--and against US strategic goals in the Asian and Pacific regions-- that has long been ingrained within the PLA.
MADRID - The Pacific or the Middle East?
For the US, energy self-sufficiency is the perfect excuse for a phased withdrawal from the Middle East; freed from energy dependency, America should be able to concentrate on the Pacific.
The Arab world, Russia, and China would be forced to take sides, straining global relations between the different poles of power and raising tensions in the Pacific.
At a time when Russia was taking a more pacific course, NATO - unlike the Warsaw Pact - was not dismantled.
The only way to resolve this problem is for NATO to assert its pacific intentions before the world.
BRISBANE - The significance of the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Beijing consists not so much in what is on APEC's agenda as in what transpires on the sidelines.
The core reality is that the Asia-Pacific region comprises a group of rapidly globalizing twenty-first-century economies sitting on top of a set of nineteenth-century national tensions.
The Chinese also see the commercial equivalent of containment in the US-proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, which includes Japan but excludes China.
Today's Asia-Pacific region has now become the focus of the global economy.
But next month's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing looks like a high-risk enterprise.
Islamic fundamentalists define jihad as a war of terror against the West and call for an Islamic caliphate from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
But Xi's statement marked a significant departure from China's long-standing position on America's presence in the Asia-Pacific region.
NEW YORK - As Asia emerges from the global economic crisis faster than the rest of the world, it is increasingly clear that the world's center of gravity is shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Although states in the Asia-Pacific region have come a long way in this regard, regional structures are nowhere near as strong as Euro-Atlantic structures.
Ironically, the two leaders who most emphasized the need for leadership in Asia and across the Pacific recently left office.
It would likely seek to expand and deepen the infant Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade agreement that President Barack Obama committed the US to last year.

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