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eastern

Of, facing, situated in, or related to the east. Washington, D.C. is on the eastern side of United States. Blowing from the east; easterly. Asia.

eastern

lying toward or situated in the east the eastern end of the island of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States the Eastern establishment lying in or toward the east the east side of New York eastern cities relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world Eastern Europe the Eastern religions (= easterly) from the east; used especially of winds an eastern wind the winds are easterly

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Simple sentences

We moved to the Eastern side of the country.
I hear some tribes in eastern Africa live on milk products.
There is a tinge of red in the eastern sky.
The eastern sky was getting light.
Japan is in eastern Asia.
The museum's eastern gallery was closed for cleaning.
They lost the war on the eastern front.
Many Eastern religions teach that there is a unity behind the diversity of phenomena.
Hitler called for lebensraum in Eastern Europe.
The Japan Meteorological Agency has revised the magnitude of the eastern Japan quake from 8.8 to 9.0, the largest recorded in world history.
Ethiopia is the largest country in Eastern Africa.
Prague is one of Eastern Europe's most famous cities.
Ljubljana is one of the most beautiful cities in Eastern Europe.
Eastern European states are calling for swift solutions to the refugee crisis.
Nepotism is widespread in Eastern countries.
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.
Alcohol consumption is higher in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe.
Bristlecone pines grow in high mountain forests in eastern California, Nevada and Utah.

Movie subtitles

Beset by economic crises and by environmental fears, the West today is also waking up to a growing Eastern challenge to its political and military supremacy.
In the next episode of civilization, I'll ask why it was that the scientific revolution happened only in the West, and failed to take off even in those parts of the Eastern world that had once been pioneers of mathematics and astronomy.
Second wave of attack, coming from the eastern sector!
Get photos of the brothers and Xiaoping Li to every port authority on the eastern seaboard.
An Eastern prejudice.
Mother had wanted me to go to a big Eastern college so I worked my way through Harvard.
Does it include products of the far eastern provinces?
Out West, they shoot at anything that looks Eastern.
Why, uh- Why don't you form an association or a grange. like they have in some of the eastern states?
If he delivers them. to the Gestapo instead of the underground. it means, not only the death of hundreds of people. but the destruction of our organization in Eastern Europe.
Everyone knows she's an Eastern snob.
You're competing with an Eastern girl.
I can be eastern representative of the firm.
And these Eastern newspapers.
It was 8:00 a.m. this morning, Eastern Standard Time.
Gentlemen, our land stretches from an Eastern sea to a Western sea.
From there, she can connect with the Eastern Limited.
If he delivers them. to the Gestapo instead of the underground. it means, not only the death of hundreds of people. but the destruction of our organization in Eastern Europe. Of course.
But look. The morn, in russet mantle clad, walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.
Government and Defense Department officials are concerned by reports of panic in several large eastern cities.
The ship, designed for travel outside the Earth's atmosphere, landed in Washington today at 3.47pm Eastern Standard Time.
I read in the paper about one of them eastern roads.
Dr Frye is the dean ofthe Eastern School of Technology.
Get photos of the brothers and Xiaoping to every port authority on the Eastern seaboard.
RADIO ANNOUNCER: It is now 2:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time.
Eastern reporters, huh?
Eastern reporters, hmm?
Tell him not to let those Eastern reporters out of his sight.
Eastern Parkway.
And at the Museum of Natural History on Eastern Parkway there's a family by the name of Snyder living under a brontosaurus.
That's because you don't get the eastern papers out here.
The sun rises out of the eastern sea and sets in the west.
Will the cars on the eastern side.
All the cars on the eastern side are first.
His brother, David, went through several of the best Eastern colleges for short periods of time, and through several marriages for even shorter periods of time.

News and current affairs

Stalin was content to settle for an empire in Eastern Europe.
In 1989, it looked as if the dark legacy of World War II, the enslavement of Eastern Europe, was finally over.
Eastern thinking, by contrast, has been abductive, moving from pragmatism to guessing the next steps.
A generous visa regime and the use of regional development funds in Ukraine that will benefit impoverished eastern Poland, are two possible inducements.
So, while the rebirth of the Taliban is in part due to the woefully neglected reconstruction of the Pashto Southern and Eastern part of the country, it also has external causes.
But many ideological hawks are secular nationalists, and their jargon is similar to that of typical Central and Eastern European nationalists.
Among the former socialist economies of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, few have caught up with real output levels that prevailed before 1990.
The same is true for Eastern Europe, the ex-Soviet states, and Latin America.
In places like rural El Paso County, on the eastern plains of Colorado, far from the federal budget debate's epicenter, spending cuts are the order of the day.
The ostensible purpose of the summit is to make those changes in the European Union's decision-making machinery that would enable it to cope with the admission of at least 12 new members, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe.
The eastern part of the region fell under Chinese rule, and was renamed Xinjiang, or New Frontier.
A variety of acronyms has been suggested, from the cutesy BRICET (adding Eastern Europe and Turkey) to BRICKETs (the former plus South Korea) and - an even greater stretch - BRIMC, which shoehorns Mexico into the mix.
Why has, say, Poland been relatively immune to the panic caused by Russia while the rest of Eastern Europe caught cold?
Chinese leaders recall that the US promised Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that German reunification and democratic transition in Eastern Europe would not mean eastward expansion of NATO.
But one question has largely escaped thorough examination: what Russia's annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine indicates about the European Union's foreign policy.
Regional groups of countries in eastern, southern, and western Africa are all giving priority to the idea of creating a monetary union.
French President Jacques Chirac has alarmed the EU candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Enlargement of the EU with a number of Central and Eastern European countries will strengthen resistance to Franco-German initiatives in this direction.
I was moved: The man who symbolized glasnost and perestroika, who had allowed the peaceful emancipation of most of Eastern and Central Europe, was speaking.
A Bolshevik anticommunism, similar in its dogmatism to communism itself, has from time to time run riot in parts of Eastern Europe.
The EBRD made an important contribution to the economic transition process in Eastern Europe; there's a good case for drawing on its experience and expertise to help the southern Mediterranean.
Before that decision is reached, the international community needs to provide humanitarian assistance and medical supplies to the rebels in eastern Libya.
Indeed, the regime has hinted that it may be willing to compromise on the issue - the delineation of the 1967 border along a tiny piece of land on the Eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee - that wrecked the negotiations eight years ago.

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